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The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence  

Edith Wharton and Stephen Orgel (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989834
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199540013.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199540013
‘They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.’ Edith Wharton’s most ... More
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: 
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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
Babbitt

Babbitt  

Sinclair Lewis and Gordon Hutner (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990151
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199567690.001.0001
Format: 
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ISBN: 
9780199567690
Amusing and tragic by turn, Sinclair Lewis’s classic novel is a biting satire of middle-American values whose title has entered the language as a byword for smug complacency, conformity, ... More
The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned (2 ed.)  

F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Blazek (ed.)

Published in Print: 
Jun 2022
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989537
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198854661.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198854661
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), is a devastating portrait of a generation of wealthy young Americans who struggle to find meaning and happiness in their ... More
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories

The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories  

Jack London, Earle Labor (ed.), and Robert C. Leitz (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989780
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538898.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538898
Of all Jack London’s fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog’s adventures during the Klondike gold ... More
A Case of Hysteria(Dora)

A Case of Hysteria: (Dora)  

Sigmund Freud

Published in Print: 
Apr 2013
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990205
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199639861.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199639861
A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what they told him. The 18-year-old ‘Dora’ was ... 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
The Castle

The Castle  

Franz Kafka, Anthea Bell (ed.), and Ritchie Robertson (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989568
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199238286.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199238286
A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats - this is the setting for Kafka’s story about a ... More
ChanceA Tale in two parts

Chance: A Tale in two parts  

Joseph Conrad and Martin Ray (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989872
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199549771.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199549771
Chance (1914) was the first of Conrad’s novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and ... More
The Collected Peter Pan

The Collected Peter Pan  

J. M. Barrie and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (ed.)

Published in Print: 
Sep 2023
Published Online: 
Dec 2023
eISBN: 
9780198900603
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198878384.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198878384
Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in ... More
The Confusions of Young Törless

The Confusions of Young Törless  

Robert Musil

Published in Print: 
Jan 2014
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990250
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199669400.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199669400
Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Törless is an intense study of an adolescent’s psychological ... More
The Custom of the Country

The Custom of the Country  

Edith Wharton and Stephen Orgel (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990045
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199555123.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199555123
Edith Whartonߣs satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her ... More
Dubliners

Dubliners  

James Joyce and Jeri Johnson (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989643
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536436.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536436
‘I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne’ James Joyce’s disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with ... 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 Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams  

Henry Adams and Ira B. Nadel (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989902
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199552368.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199552368
As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An ... 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
Eminent Victorians

Eminent Victorians  

Lytton Strachey and John Sutherland (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990038
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199555017.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199555017
Lytton Strachey’s biographical essays on four ‘eminent Victorians’ dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern biography and ... More
The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April  

Elizabeth von Arnim and Isobel Maddison (ed.)

Published in Print: 
Apr 2022
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989544
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198859093.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198859093
Four very different women—the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher, and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline ... More
The End of the Tetherand Other Tales

The End of the Tether: and Other Tales  

Joseph Conrad and Philip Davis (ed.)

Published in Print: 
Nov 2022
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989391
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780192896827.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780192896827
This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily forced into confrontation with a terrifying universe in which they can never be wholly at ... More
Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome  

Edith Wharton and Elaine Showalter (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989742
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538096.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538096
Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In ... More

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