Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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The Iliad
$13.95 Add to cartWar, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2,700 years, the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles’ anger and Hector’s death. It is a tale of many truths, speaking of powerful
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 07, 2012
- ISBN10: 0199645213
- Language: English
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Candide and Other Stories
$7.95 Add to cartCandide is the most famous of Voltaire’s “philosophical tales,” in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First published in 1759, it was an instant bestseller and has … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535612
- Language: English
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Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives
$14.95 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: 608
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537380
- Language: English
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Oliver Twist
$6.95 Add to cartOliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this nov… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536260
- Language: English
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The Three Musketeers
$12.95 Add to cartOne of the most famous historical novels ever written, The Three Musketeers (1844) is also revered as one of the world’s greatest adventure stories–its heroes Athos, Porthos and Aramis symbols for th… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dumas, Alexandre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538468
- Language: English
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works
$15.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins’s poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to explore the essence of his work and thinking.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was o- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538859
- Language: English
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The Library of Greek Mythology
$13.95 Add to cartThe only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War.
Apollodorus’ Library- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Apollodorus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536325
- Language: English
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White Nights/A Gentle Creature/The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
$12.95 Add to cartIn these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555087
- Language: English
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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
$10.95 Add to cartEugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin’s verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. En… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pushkin, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538646
- Language: English
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Collected Ghost Stories
$14.95 Add to cart‘I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own…’
Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent sch- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, M. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0199674892
- Language: English
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The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartWilliam Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. H… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wordsworth, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536864
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities
$6.95 Add to cartDickens’ second historical novel, which he considered “the best story I have written,” provides a highly-charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. Private experience and public histo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536236
- Language: English
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Jungle
$13.95 Read moreA searing novel of social realism, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle follows the fortunes of Jurgis Rudkus, an immigrant who finds in the stockyards of turn-of-the-century Chicago a ruthless system that deg… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sinclair, Upton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199569711
- Language: English
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Devils
$11.95 Add to cartThe third of Dostoevsky’s five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray that follows th
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: July 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540497
- Language: English
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Republic
$9.94 Add to cartThe central work of one of the West’s greatest philosophers, The Republic of Plato is a masterpiece of insight and feeling, the finest of the Socratic dialogues, and one of the great books of Western … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535760
- Language: English
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Robinson Crusoe
$7.95 Add to cartDaniel Defoe’s enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199553971
- Language: English
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Martin Chuzzlewit
$11.95 Add to cartThis edition of one of Dickens’s earlier novels is based on the accurate Clarendon edition of the text and includes the prefaces to the 1850 and 1867 editions and Dickens’s Number Plans.
About the Ser- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554005
- Language: English
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The Idiot
$11.95 Add to cartThe Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author’s acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological ins… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536392
- Language: English
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A Discourse on the Method
$8.94 Add to cartDescartes’ Discourse marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous “cogito e… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Descartes, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540071
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
$8.94 Add to cartThe finest of all Conrad’s tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow’s perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer’s agent, the renown
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536015
- Language: English
