Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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Greek Lives
$13.95 Add to cart“I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror…The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as m… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199540055
- Language: English
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Notes from the Underground and the Gambler
$12.95 Add to cartOne of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movem… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536384
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
$9.94 Add to cart“I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539073
- Language: English
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The Bodhicaryavatara
$12.95 Add to cartWritten in India in the early 8th century AD, ‘S=antideva’s Bodhicary=avat=ara addresses the profound desire to become a Buddha and rescue all beings from suffering. The person who acts upon such a de… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Santideva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 07 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540438
- Language: English
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Bleak House
$11.95 Add to cartBleak House, Dickens’s most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections–between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the po… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536317
- Language: English
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North and South
$10.95 Add to cartMary Gaskell’s North and South examines the nature of social authority and obedience and provides an insightful description of the role of middle class women in nineteenth century society. Through the… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537003
- Language: English
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The Age of Innocence
$9.94 Add to cartThe Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton’s most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wea… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540012
- Language: English
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Selected Tales
$9.94 Add to cartEdgar Allan Poe’s Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535779
- Language: English
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On Obligations: de Officiis
$13.95 Add to cartCicero wrote On Obligations (De Officiis) in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behavior for aspiring politicians. It has subsequently played a seminal role i
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540713
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
$17.95 Add to cartThis single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante’s Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and ear… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dante Alighieri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535647
- Language: English
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Phaedo
$11.95 Add to cartThe Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato’s masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953893X
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$8.95 Add to cartOne of Dickens’s best-loved and most personal novels, David Copperfield is the embodiment of Dickens’s own boyhood experience recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse. This edition, w… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536295
- Language: English
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Revelations of Divine Love
$17.95 Add to cart‘All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well’
Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated figures of the English Middle Ages. She is esteemed as one of the subt- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Julian of Norwich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199641188
- Language: English
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The Sea-Wolf
$10.95 Add to cartIn The Sea-Wolf, London’s most gripping novel, Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued from the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay by a demonic sea captain and introduced to fates far worse that death. Throu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554943
- Language: English
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Bacchae and Other Plays: Iphigenia Among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus
$10.95 Add to cartThe four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Blac… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540527
- Language: English
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The Woman in White
$8.94 Add to cartThe Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest “Sensation Novel.” Walter Hartright’s mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping,… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535639
- Language: English
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Agricola and Germany
$13.95 Add to cartCornelius Tacitus, Rome’s greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98, after the assination of the Emperor Domitian ended fifteen years… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tacitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953926X
- Language: English
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Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies
$11.95 Add to cartHere is a brilliant new translation of Descartes’s Meditations, one of the most influential books in the history of Western philosophy, including the full texts of the Third and Fourth Objections and … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Descartes, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0192806963
- Language: English
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Gorgias
$8.94 Add to cartOne of Plato’s most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuinely moral life. Appealing to philosophers as a classic text of moral philosoph… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540322
- Language: English
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First Love and Other Stories
$9.94 Add to cartBringing together six of Turgenev’s best known stories in volume, this collection includes “First Love,” “Asya,” “Mumu,” “The Diary of a Superfluous Man,” “Song of Triumphant Love,” and “King Lear of … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540403
- Language: English
