The Major Works

Major Works

In his tragically short life Keats wrote an astonishing number of superb poems his stature as one of the foremost poets of the Romantic movement

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Major Works

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, which alone would have secured his place in the history of English literature.

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The Major Works

Browning's work ranges from the beguiling magic of 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' to the epic book-length poem The Ring and the Book. This comprehensive

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The Major Works

Although he had a distinguished career as a lawyer and statesman, Francis Bacon's lifelong goal was to improve and extend human knowledge. In The Advancement

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Finnegans Wake

Introduction by Finn Fordham anchors the work in conventional novelistic terms of plot and characters, identifying themes, discussing the work's origins and composition, its linguistic

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The Major Works

This collection represents the best of Coleridge's poetry from every period of his life, particularly his prolific early years, which produced The Rime of the Ancient

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The Years

As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the `present day' of the

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The Major Works

Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to

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Principles of Political Economy and Chapters on Socialism

His answers to those questions have considerable relevance today, and they serve to illustrate the enduring power and imagination of his distinctive liberal utilitarian philosophy.

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The Major Works

Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to think that the Christian religion is true? What is truth,

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The Forsyte Saga

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920.

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The Major Works. Including poems, plays, and critical prose

W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound

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The Major Works

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the

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The Golden Pot and Other Tales

Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground

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The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion

First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906-15) which was abridged in 1922 by the author and his

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The Major Works

Milton's influence on English poetry and criticism has been incalculable, and this edition covers the full range of his poetic and political output. It includes Paradise

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The Major Works

Tennyson was acclaimed in his own day as the chief poetic voice of his age, and he remains one of the most highly regarded masters

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The Wings of the Dove

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume

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Sartor Resartus

This edition is the first to present the text as it originally appeared, indicating the changes Carlyle made to later editions. Appendices contain Carlyle's own

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Barry Lyndon

Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry joins the British army. After service in Germany he deserts

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Selected Essays

From `Of Essay Writing' to `Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences' Hume embraces a staggering range of social, cultural, political, demographic,

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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigated

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Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales

This selection of twenty of Hawthorne's tales is the first in paperback to present his most important short works with full annotation in one volume

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Evolutionary Writings including the Autobiographies

This unique anthology brings together a collection of Darwin's most accessible and significant writings to give the best fully rounded picture of his ideas in

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Selected Essays

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The Blithedale Romance

Based on Hawthorne's own experience of a Utopian socialist community outside Boston, The Blithedale Romance tells of the attempts of a like-minded group to begin

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Typhoon and Other Tales

The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. 'Typhoon'

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The Life of Charlotte Brontë

This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell. It has been collated with the manuscript, and the previous two editions,

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The Female Quixote or The Adventures of Arabella

Praised by Fielding, Richardson and Samuel Johnson, the book quickly established Charlotte Lennox as a foremost writer of the Novel of Sentiment. With an excellent

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The Marble Faun

The fragility - and the durability - of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended

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Le Morte Darthur. The Winchester Manuscript

The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight-prisoner'. In a resonant

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The Old Curiosity Shop

`Little Nell' cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty the pair flee London, pursued by the grotesque

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

This revised edition of Sterne's extraordinary comic novel retains the text based on the first editions of the original nine volumes, with Sterne's later changes,

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The Pickwick Papers

In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born:

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Tales of the Elders of Ireland

The first complete translation of the late Middle Irish Acallam na SenorachComplements Thomas Kinsella's translation of the Tain, OUP,1970Relevant to all Celtic and Irish Studies

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Tom Jones

Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous

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The Elements of Law Natural and Politic. Part I: Human Nature; Part II: De Corpore Politico

Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640),

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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

From Mrs Hauksbee's Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney's cot in barracks, to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stories by

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Miss or Mrs?, The Haunted Hotel, The Guilty River

Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and to create an atmosphere of mystery and menace is fully evident in the three novellas reprinted here.

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Collected Ghost Stories

Includes a lively introduction that explores James's conservative, donnish background and the character traits that contributed to the extraordinary power of his closely focused tales,

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The Alchemist and Other Plays

This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in

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An Essay on the Principle of Population

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus remains a byword for concern

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French Decadent Tales

Includes well-known writers such as Maupassant, Lorrain, Mirbeau, and Villiers as well as lesser known figures such as Leon Bloy, Jean Richepin, and the Belgian

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The Professor

The Professor (1845-6), written before Jane Eyre, challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its brevity, realism, and insistence on a working career both before

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A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections

James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of

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Troilus and Criseyde

`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his

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Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories. This edition offers his

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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of

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Autobiography and Other Writings

This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women.

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Tom Brown's Schooldays

An active social reformer, Hughes wrote with a freshness, a lack of cant, and a kind, relaxed tolerance which keeps this novel refreshingly distinct from

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Selected Writings

This is the only general anthology of Ruskin's writing currently available.Growing status of Ruskin as a major Victorian writer his centenary in 2002 prompted a

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Lyrical Ballads. 1798 and 1802

Lyrical Ballads is one of the most important collections of poetry ever published, and includes poems such as 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Lines written a

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On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin revolutionized our ideas about the natural world and our place in it by introducing the concepts of natural selection and survival of the

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Leviathan

Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications

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Late Victorian Gothic Tales

The only mainstream anthology to bring together the defining Gothic tales of the 1890sComplements and deepens the context for the most enduring Gothic fiction of

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The Woman in White

The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into

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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre

John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and

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The Mill on the Floss

`But it's bad - it's bad,' Mr Tulliver added - `a woman's no business wi' being so clever it'll turn to trouble, I doubt.'Rebellious and

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The Moonstone

A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many

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Little Women

Set in a small New England community, it tells of the March family: Marmee looks after daughters in the absence of her husband, who is

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