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Goodreads Rating: 3.91 Publisher: Oxford University Press About:  In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--some...

  Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth in the historical town of Dorchester, and it is to these familiar surroundings that he turns for the settin...

When the phlegmatic Englishman, Phileas Fogg, and his irrepressible French valet, Jean Passepartout, accept a wager to circumnavigate the world in ...

It took Charles Darwin more than twenty years to publish this book, in part because he realized that it would ignite a firestorm of controversy. On...

For use at school or home, The Oxford School Spelling Dictionary is easy-to-use and comprehensive. With over 25,000 essential words listed in colou...

This is a new edition of the "Oxford Primary School Dictionary". It is a core OUP dictionary for children aged 8 and over and specially written for...

This marvelous book about elephants covers a wide range of topics. Chapter 1 tells the heart rending story of a family of elephants from the baby e...

This fantastic book about snakes covers a wide range of topics. From the emerald tree boa to the orange sand viper, find out how snakes hunt, eat a...

Robert is determined to rescue Lorn, who remains trapped in the tiny underground world from which he has managed to escape. She'll die if he doesn'...

This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the...

Families-they're maddening, edgy, grouchy, embarrassing, ratty-and we've all got them. Rapping grandmas, snoring grandpas, laughing fathers, waltzi...

Bound by a vow made to her dying mother, Marianne sells her few belongings and leaves Grimsby. Her destination? Denmark, where she will search for ...

Daniel Deronda, the last of Eliot's novels, is the most complete expression of her idealism. Its main concerns are those of personal morality, of d...

'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant things are!'A portrait of the residents of an Englis...

Stella is determined not to enjoy her summer at holiday camp while her mum and new stepfather are on holiday, but finds herself having rather more ...

This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary ...

Butterfly effect: The scientific theory that a single occurence, no matter how small, can change the course of the universe forever. A father and s...

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for ...

Beautifully illustrated with color reproductions, black and white prints, and maps, Old Malacca introduces readers to Malacca's historical periods ...

The central drama of the book is that of Mr.Crawley, the curate of Hogglestock who, falsely accused of theft, suffers bitterly with his family. Thi...