Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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The Prince
$6.95 Add to cartWhen Machiavelli’s brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Machiavelli, Niccol?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535698
- Language: English
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Persuasion
$5.95 Read morePersuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still mov… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535558
- Language: English
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Hamlet: The Oxford Shakespearehamlet
$10.95 Add to cartThis Oxford Shakespeare edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, i… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535817
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Artists
$12.95 Add to cartThese biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term “Renaissance,” … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Vasari, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537194
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$9.94 Add to cartOne of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina sets the impossible and destructive triangle of Anna, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky against the marriage of Levin and Kitty, thus il… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 872
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536066
- Language: English
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Othello: The Moor of Venice: The Oxford Shakespeareothello: The Moor of Venice
$10.95 Add to cartAlong with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also the only trage… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535876
- Language: English
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Paradise Lost
$10.95 Add to cartFrom almost the moment of its publication in 1667, Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is difficult now to appreciate how audacious an undertaking the epic represents, and how astonishing its i… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Milton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535744
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$13.95 Add to cartPublished to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy’s death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece captures with unpreceden… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tolstoy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1392
- Publish Date: November 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0199232768
- Language: English
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Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus
$7.95 Add to cartShelley’s suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literature–the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019953716X
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$8.94 Add to cartMetamorphoses–the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity–takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville’s new tran… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537372
- Language: English
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Villette
$11.95 Add to cartAbout the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to schola… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Bront?, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536651
- Language: English
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The Nicomachean Ethics
$14.95 Read moreA student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is one of the towering figures in Western thought. A brilliant thinker with wide-ranging interests, he wrote important works in physi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199213615
- Language: English
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The Consolation of Philosophy
$14.95 Add to cartBoethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Gothic rule, which he protested as manifestly unjust…. [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Boethius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540543
- Language: English
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
$6.95 Add to cartWhether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as “the most hopelessly evil story we have e… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536171
- Language: English
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales
$7.95 Add to cartRobert Louis Stevenson’s short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in th… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536228
- Language: English
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Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard
$8.94 Read moreChekhov’s worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536694
- Language: English
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Mansfield Park
$7.95 Add to cartAt the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535531
- Language: English
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Evelina
$12.95 Add to cartFrances Burney’s first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describ… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Burney, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536937
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales
$8.94 Add to cartBeyond all doubt the greatest work of English literature before Shakespeare, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales brings together an unforgettable group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, pilgrims who … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0199599025
- Language: English
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The Karamazov Brothers
$14.95 Add to cartDostoevsky’s last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1054
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536376
- Language: English
