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L'Assommoir by Émile Zola; Margaret Mauldon (Translator); Robert Lethbridge (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
L'Assommoir est un roman d' mile Zola publi en feuilleton d s 1876 dans Le Bien public, puis dans La R publique des Lettres1 avant sa sortie en livre en 1877 chez Georges Charpentier. C'est le septi me volume de la s rie Les Rougon-Macquart. C'est un ouvrage totalement consacr au monde ouvrier et, selon ...Show more
Moby Dick by Melville Herman
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. W ...Show more
Nana by Douglas Parmée (Edited and Translated by); Émile Zola
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was a perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-si cle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana--the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daughter of the laun ...Show more
Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto; Guido Waldman (Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Estratto: ...avverra che poi si deggia morire, allora il minor mal s'elleggia. - 85 Non credo che quest'ultime parole potesse esprimer si, che fosse inteso; e fini come il debol lume suole, cui cera manchi od altro in che sia acceso. Chi potra dire a pien come si duole, poi che si vede pallido e disteso ...Show more
Trojan Women and Other Plays by Byron Gallery Staff; Eurípides; Edith Hall (Introduction by); James Morwood (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the horrific ...Show more
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