20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
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Category: Shakespeare & Dickens | Series: Collins Classics
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare; G. R. Hibbard (Editor)
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Category: Shakespeare & Dickens | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Arguably Shakespeare's finest and most important play, Hamlet is also one of the most misunderstood masterpieces of world literature. To be or not to be, may be the question, but the answer has eluded many generations of critics. What does it mean to be? And is everything as it seems to be? These are th ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: Othello - The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
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Category: Shakespeare & Dickens
The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings - Extensive introducti ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Shakespeare & Dickens | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable fo ...Show more
Henry V Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; Gary Taylor (Editor)
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Category: Shakespeare & Dickens | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
First staged in 1599, Shakespeare's history of Henry V's remarkable victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From his wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and honour. Wri ...Show more
As You Like it: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Shakespeare & Dickens | Series: Oxford World's Classics
As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines S ...Show more
Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Shakespeare & Dickens | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to baroque music. In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the play's changing fortunes to changes with ...Show more
Macbeth (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare, Roma Gill
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Category: Shakespeare & Dickens | Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and describes the rise of the royal commander Macbeth to the King of Scotland, his transformation into a tyrant and his fall. In his drama Shakespeare linked historical facts about the historic Scottish King Macbeth and the contemporary English King James I wi ...Show more
William Shakespeare; The Tragedies
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Category: Shakespeare & Dickens
Here are the most treasured works in all of literature: William Shakespeare's timeless plays. This handsome collectible volume contains the complete, unabridged versions of all of Shakespeare's tragedies, including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Othello.
Nicholas Nickleby by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: Shakespeare & Dickens | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mr ...Show more
Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
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Category: Shakespeare & Dickens
In this play, Bolingbroke, the decisive usurper of Richard II, has been transformed into the careworn King Henry IV, thwarted in his desire to expiate his guilt on crusade by the threat of civil war. His wayward son is won over by the decadent charms of Falstaff but wins a decisive battle.
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
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Category: Shakespeare & Dickens
Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus. Shakespeare worked on it during the same years he wrote Antony and Cleopatra, making them his last two tragedies.