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Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners
$10.95 Add to cartOne of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert’s… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535655
- Language: English
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Sister Carrie
$13.95 Add to cartWhen a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dreiser, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539081
- Language: English
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Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLinguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Beginning at the ‘arts’ end of the subject with… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Matthews, P. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0192801481
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
$11.95 Add to cartCousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac’s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violen… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553947
- Language: English
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Applied Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMathematics is playing an increasingly important role in society and the sciences, enhancing our ability to use models and handle data. While pure mathematics is mostly interested in abstract structur… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goriely, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198754043
- Language: English
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The War of the Worlds
$9.94 Add to cartOne of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0198702647
- Language: English
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A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
$10.95 Add to cartThis volume includes “The Battle of the Books” and “The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit”, both which accompanied “A Tale of a Tub” on its first publication in 1704.
About the Series: For over 100 y- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Swift, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549788
- Language: English
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Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works
$13.95 Add to cartAlexander Pushkin’s dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin’s own unique, condens… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pushkin, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554048
- Language: English
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Paperback Oxford Canadian Dictionary
$29.95 Read moreBased on the critically acclaimed and best-selling Canadian Oxford Dictionary, the Paperback Oxford Canadian Dictionary offers all the authority of Oxford’s flagship Canadian dictionary in a handy and… [more below]
- Author: Barber, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1240
- Publish Date: April 06 2006
- ISBN10: 0195424395
- Language: English
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Oxford Dictionary of Current English
$10.95 Add to cartThe Oxford Dictionary of Current English is the most comprehensive paperback dictionary of its kind, providing full and up-to-date coverage of English as it is used today around the world.
The Diction… [more below]- Author: Oxford University Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0198614373
- Language: English
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Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines
$10.95 Add to cartWith the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a sat… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537992
- Language: English
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Imagination: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating ho- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0198830025
- Language: English
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The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAmid the many catastrophes of the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War continues to exert a particular fascination among history buffs and the lay-reader alike. This Very Short Introduction integr… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Graham, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0192803778
- Language: English
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Babbitt
$10.95 Add to cartAmusing 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, and materiali… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0199567697
- Language: English
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Dementia: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAs more of us live longer, the fear of an old age devastated by brain diseases like dementia is growing. Many people are already facing the challenges posed by these progressive and terminal condition… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taylor, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198825781
- Language: English
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Seneca: Selected Letters
$13.95 Add to cartSeneca’s letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca’s personal life and the truly turbulent times in which he lived. One of the great Sto… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199533210
- Language: English
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Melmoth the Wanderer
$12.95 Add to cartWritten by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, Melmoth Wanderer brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity. Its tormented villain, a Faustian transgressor d… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Maturin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540292
- Language: English
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Corporate Social Responsibility: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartCorporate social responsibility has been defined as “the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society.” Is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) just window dressing or is it a contradic… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Moon, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 11 2015
- ISBN10: 0199671818
- Language: English
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Thinking and Reasoning: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartOur extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our evolved thinking processes also leave us susceptible to bias and error. The study of thinking and reas… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Evans, Jonathan St B. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0198787251
- Language: English
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Autobiography and Other Writings
$9.94 Add to cartFranklin’s writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry–the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554900
- Language: English
