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This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever. In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures the intensity of childhood longing and delight,...

For this Oxford World`s Classics edition, an eminent Joyce scholar has written an Introduction and notes, which together provide a comprehensive and illuminating appreciation of Joyce`s artistry....

Sent to Paris by a wealthy matron to retrieve her son, Strether becomes sidetracked by intriguing complications....

The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling`s philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the "Mowgli" stories. The tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets...

Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, "Leviathan" is an ambitious work of philosophy. Claiming that man`s essential nature is competitive and selfish, Thomas Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign - or "Leviathan" - to enforce peace and the law....

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 five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death....