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The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors  

Henry James and Christopher Butler (ed.)

Published in Print: 
28 September 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921391
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538546.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538546
Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by ... More
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes  

Arthur Conan Doyle and W. W. Robson (ed.)

Published in Print: 
04 October 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923173
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199555642.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199555642
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were ... More
ECCE HomoHow To Become What You Are

ECCE Homo: How To Become What You Are  

Friedrich Nietzsche and Duncan Large (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989933
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199552566.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199552566
Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative ... More
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life  

Émile Durkheim, Carol Cosman (ed.), and Mark S. Cladis (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989841
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199540129.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199540129
‘If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.’ In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), ... More
The Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl  

Henry James and Virginia Llewellyn Smith (ed.)

Published in Print: 
15 March 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921414
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538584.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538584
abstract A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and a noble husband. ... More
The Hound of the BaskervillesAnother Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes  

Arthur Conan Doyle and W. W. Robson (ed.)

Published in Print: 
01 April 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920875
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536962.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536962
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor hold ... More
The Interpretation of Dreams

The Interpretation of Dreams  

Sigmund Freud, Joyce Crick, and Ritchie Robertson

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989698
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199537587.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199537587
This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud’s original argument, ... More
James: The Varieties of Religious Experience

James: The Varieties of Religious Experience  

William James and Matthew Bradley (ed.)

Published in Print: 
05 July 2012
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923807
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199691647.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199691647
‘By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.’ The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James’s classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often ... More
Just So Storiesfor Little Children

Just So Stories: for Little Children  

Rudyard Kipling and Lisa Lewis (ed.)

Published in Print: 
09 March 2015
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921438
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538607.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538607
How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. ... More
Kim

Kim  

Rudyard Kipling and Alan Sandison (ed.)

Published in Print: 
01 August 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920677
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536467.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536467
Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O’Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its ... More
The Lost World

The Lost World  

Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Duncan (ed.)

Published in Print: 
15 December 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921490
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538799.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538799
‘The ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would ... More
Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing

Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing  

James Joyce, Kevin Barry (ed.), and Conor Deane (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989971
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199553969.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199553969
‘I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism’ James Joyce’s non-fictional writings address diverse issues: ... More
The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden  

Frances Hodgson Burnett and Peter Hunt (ed.)

Published in Print: 
15 May 2011
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923470
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199588220.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199588220
‘It was the garden that did it – and Mary and Dickon and the creatures – and the Magic.’ An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, a ... More
Selected Essays

Selected Essays  

Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990120
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199556069.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199556069
According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay ‘is simply that it should give pleasure…It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with its ... More
Sherlock Holmes Selected Stories

Sherlock Holmes Selected Stories  

Arthur Conan Doyle and Barry McCrea (ed.)

Published in Print: 
01 May 2014
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923678
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199672066.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199672066
‘Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science.’ For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately ... More
The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows  

Kenneth Grahame and Peter Hunt (ed.)

Published in Print: 
29 July 2010
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923302
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199567560.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199567560
‘Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. ’ So says Rat to Mole, as he introduces him to the delights ... More
The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove  

Henry James and Peter Brooks (ed.)

Published in Print: 
31 August 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923111
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199555437.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199555437
The vivacious Kate Croy seems to face a stark choice; to marry Merton Densher, the impoverished journalist she loves, and thereby break with her family, or to marry lovelessly but well and ... More

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