Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
$12.95 Add to cartThe real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled “Thieftaker General”, controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Even during his lifetime hi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Fielding, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549753
- Language: English
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The Pickwick Papers
$11.95 Add to cartIn 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write a monthly something’ illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed papers’ soom outgrew their o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 786
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536244
- Language: English
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Resurrection
$13.95 Add to cartResurrection, the last of Tolstoy’s major novels, tells the story of a nobleman’s attempt to redeem himself for the suffering his youthful philandering caused a peasant girl. Tolstoy’s vision of redem… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555761
- Language: English
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The House of Mirth
$10.95 Add to cartSince its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton’s observations and the power of her style. A lucid, disturbing analysis of the stifling limitation… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538107
- Language: English
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
$10.95 Add to cartMr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London’s Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist pl… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 019953635X
- Language: English
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
$11.95 Add to cartOne of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a terrifying tale of murder and amorality, and of one man’s de… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hogg, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0199217955
- Language: English
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The Woodlanders
$8.94 Read moreLove and the erratic heart are at the center of Hardy’s “woodland story.” Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-to-do… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538530
- Language: English
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The Masterpiece
$12.95 Add to cartThe Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536910
- Language: English
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Hard Times
$7.95 Add to cartHard Times–Dickens’s shortest novel and one of his triumphs–tells the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father and has had lasting appeal to generations of readers.
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- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536279
- Language: English
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Parzival and Titurel
$14.95 Add to cartWritten in the first decade of the thirteenth century, Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. It tells of Parzival’s growth from youthful folly to knighthood at the court of King Art… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Eschenbach, Wolfram Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539200
- Language: English
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The Last of the Mohicans
$11.95 Add to cartThe second of Cooper’s five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. It’s success lies partly in the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cooper, James Fenimore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538190
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
$12.95 Add to cart‘I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.’
Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipula- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198727712
- Language: English
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My Antonia
$10.95 Read moreMy Antonia is a classic tale of pioneer life in the American Midwest. The novel details daily life in the newly settled plains of Nebraska through the eyes of Jim Burden, who recounts memories of a ch… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953814X
- Language: English
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Dubliners
$9.94 Add to cartThe publication of James Joyce’s Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else. Although only tw… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536430
- Language: English
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
$13.95 Add to cart“I took it: – and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!”
This edition presents De Quincey… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: de Quincey, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199600619
- Language: English
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A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings
$6.95 Add to cart‘Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.’
Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of ‘a school of sentimental writers’, A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sterne, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537186
- Language: English
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The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
$12.95 Add to cartThis volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin’s best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pushkin, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538654
- Language: English
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Bel-Ami
$13.95 Add to cartMaupassant’s second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened “Bel-Ami” by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Maupassant, Guy De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553939
- Language: English
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The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartPreviously published in the Oxford Authors series, this unique one-volume selection of Milton’s poetry and prose includes all the English and Italian verse and a generous selection of his major prose … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Milton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199539189
- Language: English
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The Ambassadors
$8.94 Add to cartThe second of James’s three late masterpieces, was, in its author’s opinion, “the best, all round, of my productions”.
Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538549
- Language: English
