Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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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
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Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories
$15.95 Add to cart‘Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science’
For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199672067
- Language: English
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The Nun
$12.95 Add to cartDiderot’s The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and n… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Diderot, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555249
- Language: English
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The American
$12.95 Add to cartDuring a trip to Europe, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, asks the charming Claire de Cintr? to be his wife. To his dismay, he receives an icy reception from the heads of her family… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555206
- Language: English
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Effi Briest
$15.95 Add to cart‘I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.’
Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He take- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Fontane, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199675643
- Language: English
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A Case of Hysteria: (Dora)
$11.95 Add to cart“I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora’s nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation.”
A new translation of one of Freud’s most important and intriguing texts, A Case o- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0199639868
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
$8.95 Add to cart‘Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. ‘Where is your nephew?’ repeated Neveille. ‘Why do you ask me?’ ‘I ask you, ‘ retorted Jasper, ‘because you were the last person in his company, and he i… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554617
- Language: English
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Sartor Resartus
$12.95 Add to cartSartor Resartus (“The Tailor Retailored”) is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are s… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Carlyle, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540373
- Language: English
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Thérèse Raquin
$11.95 Add to cartTh?r?se Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola’s dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters,… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536856
- Language: English
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Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
$13.95 Add to cartDeceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld’s shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust,… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: La Rochefoucauld, François de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540004
- Language: English
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The Lost World: Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summe
$10.95 Add to cartThe first in Arthur Conan Doyle’s series of books featuring the popular character of Professor Challenger, The Lost World is a classic tale of adventure and discovery. A scientific team embarks on an … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199538794
- Language: English
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Kidnapped
$11.95 Add to cart‘Your bed shall be the moorcock’s, and your life shall be like the hunted deer’s, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.’
Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199674213
- Language: English
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The Extraordinary Journeys: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
$9.94 Add to cartNow available in a new translation, this classic of nineteenth century French literature has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Ax… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199538077
- Language: English
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Eugénie Grandet
$13.95 Add to cart‘Who is going to marry Eug?nie Grandet?’
This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eug?nie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in B- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555893
- Language: English
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Classical Literary Criticism
$11.95 Add to cartThis volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of literary criticism, including Aristotle’s Poetics, Horace’s Art of Poetry, Longinus’ on Sublimity, Tacitus’ Dialogues, and extracts from Pl… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Russell, D. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549818
- Language: English
