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Leviathan
$15.99 Add to cart‘He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in?himself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind.’
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan?is not just one of the greatest philosophical?texts in the Englis- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hobbes, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0192868748
- Language: English
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Aias
$16.98 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated Greek tragedies, the Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0195128192
- Language: English
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The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts
$10.95 Add to cartKalidasa’s play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwright (c.4th century CE). Overwhelmingly erotic in t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kalidasa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540608
- Language: English
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The Tempest: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Add to cart‘How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which S
That has such people in’t!’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192865870
- Language: English
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As You Like It: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Add to cart‘We that are true lovers run into strange capers.’
Four centuries after its publication in the Folio, As You Like It‘s capacity to entertain and instruct remains evergreen. This edition provides a fri- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192865803
- Language: English
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Don Juan: And Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartThis selection of seven of Moli?re’s prose plays includes “Precious Provincials,” “The Would-be Gentleman,” “Don Juan,” “The Reluctant Doctor,” “Scapin the Schemer,” “The Miser,” and “George Dandin.” … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Moli?re
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540225
- Language: English
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The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
$23.99 Add to cartAfter three decades of “reform and opening up,” China is closing its doors, clamping down on Western influence in the economy, media, and civil society. At the same time, President Xi Jinping has emer… [more below]
- Author: Economy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 02 2019
- ISBN10: 019005655X
- Language: English
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American Legal History
$12.99 Add to cartLaw has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which legal decisions have been made-it has played a powerful … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: White, G. Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0199766002
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
$9.94 Read moreMeet the boy who can find trouble without even looking. At school, at home, in church, and outdoors, if there’s mischief about Tom Sawyer will be in the thick of it! In addition to his everyday stunts… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Children’s Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0192738283
- Language: English
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The Decameron
$13.95 Add to cartThe Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence’s confident entrepreneurial society to its core.
In a country villa outside the city,- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540411
- Language: English
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Epigrams: With Parallel Latin Text
$16.95 Read more“If you’re one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.”
The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Martial
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199645450
- Language: English
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Hobbes
$12.99 Read moreThomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan was one of the first truly modern works of philosophy. Richard Tuck shows that while Hobbes may inde… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #64
- Author: Tuck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802550
- Language: English
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Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works
$10.95 Add to cartThis entirely new translation includes Petrarch’s short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Petrarch, Francesco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540691
- Language: English
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Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
$14.95 Add to cartChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which sh… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Marlowe, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537062
- Language: English
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The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails
$75.00 Add to cartAnthropologists and historians have confirmed the central role alcohol has played in nearly every society since the dawn of human civilization, but it is only recently that it has been the subject of … [more below]
- Author: Wondrich, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: November 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0199311137
- Language: English
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On the Nature of the Universe
$13.95 Add to cartThis is a new verse translation of Lucretius’s only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville’s particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially hel… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lucretius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555141
- Language: English
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American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEuropeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery m… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Williams, Heather Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0199922683
- Language: English
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
$16.95 Add to cartDavid Hume’s Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language. His arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and against … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549907
- Language: English
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Fascism
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both?
Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Passmore, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199685363
- Language: English
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The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or the Fox; Epicene, or the Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair
$11.95 Add to cartThis edition brings together Jonson’s four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. The texts of these plays have all been newly edited for this volume, and are presented … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Jonson, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537313
- Language: English
