Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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The Golden Ass
$12.95 Add to cartApuleius’s Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel–the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose cu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Apuleius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540551
- Language: English
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The Romance of the Rose
$16.95 Add to cartThis is a new translation of The Romance of the Rose, an allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair which became the most popular and influential of all medieval romances. In the han… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: de Lorris, Guillaume
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199540675
- Language: English
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Faust
$11.95 Add to cartThis is a new translation of Faust, Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust, Part I was the winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here, Luke expertly imitates the varied verse-fo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Goethe, J. W. Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536201
- Language: English
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Faust, Part One
$9.94 Add to cartThis new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe’s Faust–one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature–preserves the essence of Goethe’s meaning without resorting eithe… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Goethe, J. W. Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019953621X
- Language: English
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St. Augustine’s Confessions
$7.95 Add to cartIn his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Augustine, Saint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537828
- Language: English
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The Qur’an
$12.95 Add to cartOne of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, the Qur’an is the supreme authority and living source of all Islamic teaching
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Haleem, M. A. S. Abdel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 502
- Publish Date: June 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535957
- 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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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 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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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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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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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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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
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
$17.95 Add to cartA classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literatur… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Frazer, James George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 199538824
- Language: English
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Aurora Leigh
$13.95 Add to cartAurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century, is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth century poem of contemporary life. It is an a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199552339
- Language: English
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
$10.95 Add to cartIn 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or “rub?iy?t”) of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayy?m. If not a true translation–his Omar seems to have read Shakespea… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Fitzgerald, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199580502
- Language: English
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The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
$8.94 Add to cartThis unique volume brings together four of Moli?e’s greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career. Actor, director, and playwright, Moli?e (1622-73) was one of the fin… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Moli?re
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540187
- Language: English
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Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold
$10.95 Add to cartPlautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and Moliere’s the Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus h… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plautus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954056X
- Language: English
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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
$9.94 Add to cartJohn Polidori’s classic tale “The Vampyre”(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of myster… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Polidori, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019955241X
- Language: English
