Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Author

Earliest Publication Date

1893

Summary

Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, and in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. The quartet of musketeers come out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But...

142) Under the greenwood tree, or, The Mellstock quire, a rural painting of the Dutch school

Author

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

Earliest Publication Date

1896

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"In the small Wessex village of Mellstock, the pretty young schoolmistress Fancy Day finds herself romantically entangled with three different men. Local lad and choir member Dick Dewy has to compete for her affections with a prosperous farmer and the new vicar, the Reverend Maybold. Maybold disrupts parish life and custom when he decides to replace the three generations of singers and instrumentalists who make up the church choir with a modern organ,...

143) Virginia Woolf

Author

Whitworth, Michael H

Earliest Publication Date

2009

144) War and peace

Author

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910

Earliest Publication Date

1898

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Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.

145) War stories and poems

Author

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

Earliest Publication Date

1999

146) Who betrays Elizabeth Bennet?: further puzzles in classic fiction

Author

Sutherland, John, 1938-

Earliest Publication Date

1999

147) Winesburg, Ohio

Author

Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

Earliest Publication Date

1960

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Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century.

148) Women in love

Author

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930

Earliest Publication Date

1922

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This novel, originally written in 1916, published in 1921, explores the lives of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and their developing love affairs with Rupert Birkin, an intellectual, and Gerald Crich, an industrialist. The despair of one sister's relationship contrasts with the happiness of the other's as the four clash in thought, passion, and belief, in their search for a life that is truly complete. The novel is the sequel to The Rainbow....