Notes from the Underground and The Gambler (Oxford World’s Classics)

Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler

✍ Dostoevsky, Fedor M. 📂 Fiction 📅 1991;1999 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 208 KB

"Notes From the Underground" examines the important political and philosophical questions that were current in Russian and Europe in the nineteenth century. "The Gambler" contains an unmistakable echo of the author's affair with Polina Suslova, in which he experienced more torment than fulfilment.;N

The Lusiads: Oxford World's Classics

✍ Camoes, Luis Vaz de 📂 Fiction 📅 2001 🏛 OUP Oxford 🌐 English ⚖ 225 KB 👁 2 views

The Masterpiece (Oxford World's Classics)

✍ Emile Zola 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 OUP Oxford 🌐 English ⚖ 299 KB

The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the

The Nun Oxford World's Classics

✍ ebrary, Inc.;Diderot, Denis;Goulbourne, Russell 📂 Fiction 📅 2005 🏛 Oxford University Press, UK 🌐 English ⚖ 182 KB 👁 3 views

Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural

The Lusiads (Oxford World's Classics)

✍ Luis Vaz de Camoes 📂 Fiction 📅 2001 🏛 OUP Oxford;Oxford Univ. Press 🌐 English ⚖ 225 KB 👁 3 views

The Nun (Oxford World's Classics)

✍ Diderot, Denis 📂 Fiction 📅 2005 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 182 KB 👁 2 views

Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural