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This Oxford Children's Classic contains the complete unabridged text of A Christmas Carol andother Christmas stories written by Charles Dickens. It also features an introduction by Neil Gaiman and other bonus material including insights for readers,facts, activities, and more . . .Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three spectral spirits on Christmas Eve. They guide him on a journey through his past, present, and future, showing him the joys of Christmas and the consequences of his wicked ways.

Anne wishes her bright red hair was a beautiful auburn (not the green she accidentally dyed it).She dreams of pretty dresses and eating fancy cakes (made with all the right ingredients instead of the medicine she accidentally used).And she's determined to beat Gilbert Blythe to be top of the class (and doesn't care one bit how handsome he is).But most of all, she wants to stay at Green Gables forever, with her very best friend, Diana.With friendship, family, catastrophes, and romance

Come with Black Beauty on the journey of a lifetime.If you like horse stories, then Black Beauty is for you! Not only does this edition include the unabridged text, it is also full of extra material to help you get the most from the story and gives lots of recommendations for other things you might enjoy.

We are all classicists--we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of theseaspects of the classics differ from their original reality? This introduction to the classics begins with a visit to the British Museum to view the frieze which once decorated the Apollo Temple a Bassae. Through these sculptures John Henderson and MaryBeard prompt us to consider the significance of the study of Classics as a means of discovery and enquiry, its value in terms of literature, philosophy, and culture, its source of imagery, and the reasons for the continuation of these images into andbeyond the twentieth century. Designed for the general reader and student alike, A Very Short Introduction to Classics challenges readers to adopt a fresh approach to the Classics as a major cultural influence, both in the ancient world andtwentieth-century--emphasizing the continuing need to understand and investigate this enduring subject.

Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. The anti-hero, Aeneas Manston, as physically alluring as he is evil, even fascinates the innocent Cytherea, though she is in love with another man. When hecannot seduce her, Manston resorts to deception, blackmail, bigamy, murder, and rape. Yet this compelling story also raises the great questions underlying Hardy's major novels, which relate to the injustice of the class system, the treatment of women,probability and causality. This edition shows for the first time that the sensation novel was always Hardy's natural genre. It is based on the first edition text, and includes later prefaces and the Wessex Poems dissolved into prose.

The introduction includes an examination of the Quarto and texts, and of the relationship between them

Open your heart to the unforgettable March sisters . . .If you enjoy heart-warming books, then Little Women is for you! Not only does this edition have the complete, unabridged text, but it is also full of extra material to help you get the most out of the story, and gives lots of recommendations for otherbooks about family and growing up.

During a trip to Europe, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, asks the charming Claire de Cintré to be his wife. To his dismay, he receives an icy reception from the heads of her family, who find Newman to be a vulgar example of theAmerican privileged class. Brilliantly combining elements of comedy, tragedy, romance and melodrama, this tale of thwarted desire vividly contrasts nineteenth-century American and European manners. Oxford's edition of The American, which was firstpublished in 1877, is the only one that uses James' revised 1907 text.

Beware of the tiger . . .If you like jungle-action and animals galore, then The Jungle Book is the story for you! Not only does this edition include the complete, unabridged text, it is also full of extra material to help you get the most from the story and gives lots ofrecommendations for other adventures you might enjoy.

This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became prioress of Markyate, near St Albans in Hertfordshire. Determined to devote her life to God and to remain a virgin, Christina repulses the sexual advances of the bishop ofDurham. In revenge he arranges her betrothal to a young nobleman but Christina steadfastly refuses to consummate the marriage and defies her parents' cruel coercion. Sustained by visions, she finds refuge with the hermit Roger, and lives concealed atMarkyate for four years, enduring terrible physical and emotional torment. Although Christina is supported by the abbot of St Albans, she never achieves the recognition that he intended for her.Written with striking candour by Christina's anonymous biographer, the vividness and compelling detail of this account make it a social document as much as a religious one. Christina's trials of the flesh and spirit exist against a backdrop of schemingand corruption and all-too-human greed.

What are you looking for?Friendship! Mystery! Adventure! Secrets!When spoiled, selfish orphan Mary Lennox is sent to live at lonley Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire, she discovers a magical world on the other side of a locked garden door. Mary decides to bring the abandoned garden she finds there back to life