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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Oxford World Classics) by Charles Dickens; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?'Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Oxford World Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conven ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World Classics) by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
"Pray, pray be composed," cried Elinor, "and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet." For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ru ...Show more
War and Peace (Oxford World Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
I don't understand it; I don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars. How is it that we women don't want anything of the kind, don't need it? Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasio ...Show more
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