Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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Finnegans Wake
$21.95 Add to cartIn Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world history, of ambition and failure, desire and transgression, pri… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 646
- Publish Date: June 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0199695156
- Language: English
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Against Nature: A Rebours
$13.95 Add to cartResisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Huysmans, Joris-Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555117
- Language: English
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
$8.94 Add to cartWhen A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. In his Introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how what began… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540586
- Language: English
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The Marble Faun
$9.95 Add to cartThe fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical g… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554072
- Language: English
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Against Nature: A Rebours
$13.95 Add to cartResisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Huysmans, Joris-Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555117
- Language: English
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
$8.94 Add to cartJames Joyce’s Portrait of an Artist is one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publicat… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536449
- Language: English
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Aesop’s Fables
$10.95 Add to cartThe fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who m… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Aesop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540756
- Language: English
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The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
$12.95 Add to cartDorothy Wordsworth’s journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers. Invaluable for the insight they give into the daily … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wordsworth, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536872
- Language: English
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Père Goriot
$11.95 Add to cartThis fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538751
- Language: English
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The Ladies’ Paradise
$13.95 Add to cartThe Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames), now a TV series called The Paradise based on this classic novel, recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The stor… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536902
- Language: English
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Indiana
$12.95 Add to cartThe first novel that George Sand wrote without a collaborator, this is not only a vivid romance, but also an impassioned plea for change in the inequitable French marriage laws of the time, and for a … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sand, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540489
- Language: English
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A Sicilian Romance
$11.95 Add to cartIn A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Radcliffe, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537399
- Language: English
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The Complete Short Stories
$12.95 Read moreOscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. Admired by George Orwell and W. B. Yeats, the stories include poigna… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2010
- ISBN10: 019953506X
- Language: English
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Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works
$14.95 Add to cartAlthough utterly convinced of the truth of Christianity, Anselm of Canterbury struggled to make sense of his religion. He considered the doctrines of faith an invitation to question, to think, and to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Anselm, St
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954008X
- Language: English
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Discourses on Livy
$12.95 Add to cartDiscourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555559
- Language: English
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Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra
$9.94 Add to cartThis volume of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid tra… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537178
- Language: English
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Selected Poetry
$11.95 Add to cartThomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birt… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538506
- Language: English
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Vita Nuova
$10.95 Add to cartVita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as Dante’s most profound creation. The thirty-one poems in this, the first of his major writings, are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dante Alighieri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540659
- Language: English
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The Masnavi: Book One
$15.95 Add to cartRumi’s Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called “the Koran in Persian.” The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of h… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199552312
- Language: English
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
$12.95 Add to cartRasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the “happy valley” in order to make their “choice of life.” By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they come to understand the nature … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Johnson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 019922997X
- Language: English
