Oxford University Press
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Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn this Very Short Introduction, Michael Ferber explores Romanticism during the period of its incubation, birth, and growth, covering the years roughly from 1760 to 1860. This is the only introduction… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ferber, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 17 2010
- ISBN10: 019956891X
- Language: English
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The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the philosophy of Aristotle and Confucius, to Thomas Aquinas’Summa Theologiae, to the paintings of Raphael, Botticelli and many more, fascination with the virtues has endured and evolved to fit a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Boyd, Craig A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198845375
- Language: English
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The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBy the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known.
This Very Short Introduction provides a concise- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Howard, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0199205590
- Language: English
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The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
$14.95 Add to cartAristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the wo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953909X
- Language: English
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Selected Poems: With Parallel French Text
$15.95 Read more‘In the end you’re tired of this antiquated world’
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism, and the most colourful. His exuberant, adventurous poetry m- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Apollinaire, Guillaume
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199687595
- Language: English
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Belinda
$13.95 Add to cart‘It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.’
Maria Edgeworth’s 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, some- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Edgeworth, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0199682135
- Language: English
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
$32.99 Add to cartConnecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this… [more below]
- Author: Abulafia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 019931599X
- Language: English
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The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
$15.95 Add to cartDrawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson’s new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Parkinson, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555621
- Language: English
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Nana
$12.95 Add to cart‘She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.’
Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic hig- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198814267
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cart‘The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.’
Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198709870
- Language: English
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides res… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Johnson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198798741
- Language: English
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Elective Affinities
$13.95 Add to cartElective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany’s literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555362
- Language: English
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Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction
$23.99 Add to cartThe Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destr… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0199843287
- Language: English
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
$7.95 Add to cartOf all Jack London’s fictions none have been as 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 rush, this edi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538891
- Language: English
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Little Women
$8.94 Add to cartThis classic story of the March family women and their lives in New England during the Civil War has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868. Poor, argumentative, loving, and optimis… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538115
- Language: English
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Oxford Spanish Dictionary
$49.95 Read moreThis internationally acclaimed dictionary is widely used as a key reference tool by language professionals. With over 300,000 words and phrases, and half a million translations, and packed full of gra… [more below]
- Author: Galimberti Jarman, Beatriz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 2060
- Publish Date: July 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0199543402
- Language: English
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Operation Barbarossa: The History of a Cataclysm
$40.99 Add to cartAuthor of an acclaimed history of the Battle of the Atlantic during World War Two (OUP 2016), Jonathan Dimbleby now offers a compelling account of the largest military operation not only of World War … [more below]
- Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0197547214
- Language: English
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Father and Son
$14.95 Add to cartEdmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, “This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.” Father and Son remains one of English literature… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gosse, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539111
- Language: English
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Aeneid
$15.95 Add to cartFrederick Ahl’s new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Ahl has used a version of Virgil’s ancient hexa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199231958
- Language: English
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The Gallic War
$9.95 Add to cartThe Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540268
- Language: English
