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A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures - amorous and reckless - do nothing to alleviate his boredom and cynicism. World-weary and self-destructive, Pechorin is alienated ...Show more
A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings by Laurence Sterne
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Set ...Show more
Mary & The Wrongs Of Woman by Wollstonecraft Mary
Category: Culture | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exile from the society that condemned his political and religious views. Returning to Paris the philosopher d ...Show more
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