Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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The Bostonians
$9.94 Add to cartFrom Boston’s social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of ‘the sisterhood of women.’ She acquires two … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539146
- Language: English
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Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man
$17.95 Add to cart‘For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.’
With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frederic Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursu- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199686637
- Language: English
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About Love and Other Stories
$9.94 Add to cartRaymond Carver called Anton Chekhov “the greatest short story writer who has ever lived.” This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov’s genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Man… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536686
- Language: English
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Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology
$19.95 Add to cartAlthough we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century this division was not recognized. As the scientist John Tyndall pointed out, not only … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Otis, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 019955465X
- Language: English
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The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale
$13.95 Add to cart“I long to study the purely national, purely natural character of an Irishwoman.” When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father’s Irish estate as punishment for his dissipated wa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Owenson, Sydney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199552495
- Language: English
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News from Nowhere or an Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance
$15.95 Add to cartNews from Nowhere(1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris and the only significant English utopia to be written since Thomas More’s. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor fr… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Morris, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539197
- Language: English
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Trilby
$10.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O’Ferrall and her mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of that period alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes. Immensely popular for years, t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Du Maurier, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538808
- Language: English
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She
$9.94 Add to cartDrawing on his knowledge of Africa and of ancient legends, adventure writer H. Rider Haggard weaves this disturbing tale of Ayesha, the mysterious and immortal white queen of a Central African tribe. … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Haggard, H. Rider
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536422
- Language: English
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Shirley
$7.95 Add to cartShirley is Charlotte Bront: e e’s only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, when economic hardship led to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540802
- Language: English
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Cousin Phillis and Other Stories
$11.95 Read moreElizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of Victorian novelists, yet in her lifetime her shorter fictions were equally well loved, and they are among the most accomplished examples of t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0199239495
- Language: English
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Selected Stories
$12.95 Add to cartThis selection covers the full range of Mansfield’s fiction, from her early satirical stories to the subtly nuanced comedy of ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’ and the macabre and ominous ‘A Married… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Mansfield
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: September 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537356
- Language: English
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Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
$11.95 Add to cartOne of the earliest major American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1760s. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Brown, Charles Brockden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538778
- Language: English
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Treasure Island
$7.95 Add to cartThe discovery of a treasure map sets young Jim Hawkins in search of buried gold, along with a crew of buccaneers recruited by the one-legged Long John Silver. As they near their destination, and the l… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0199560358
- Language: English
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Mary and the Wrongs of Woman
$13.95 Add to cartMary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and opportunities with men. They are expressed here in two novels in which heroines have to rely… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538905
- Language: English
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Tom Jones
$8.94 Add to cartTom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding’s greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the center of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stand… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Fielding, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536996
- Language: English
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Germinal
$8.94 Add to cartZola’s masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola’s death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom fro… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, Émile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536899
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$12.95 Read moreThis new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539022
- Language: English
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The Return of the Native
$8.94 Add to cart‘To be loved to madness – such was her great desire’
Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for ‘music, poetry, passion, war’. She marries C- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537046
- Language: English
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Phineas Finn
$11.95 Add to cartThe second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series, Phineas Finn‘s engaging plot embraces matters as diverse as reform, the position of women, the Irish question, and the conflict between integrity and am… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: December 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0199581436
- Language: English
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories
$12.95 Add to cartCharlotte Perkins Gilman was America’s leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection ever printed of her sh… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538840
- Language: English
