Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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Father and Son
$14.95 Add to cartEdmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, “This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.” Father and Son remains one of English literature… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gosse, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539111
- Language: English
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Aeneid
$15.95 Add to cartFrederick Ahl’s new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Ahl has used a version of Virgil’s ancient hexa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199231958
- Language: English
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The Gallic War
$9.95 Add to cartThe Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540268
- Language: English
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Letters from an American Farmer
$14.95 Add to cartWritten by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: “What, then, is the American, this new man?”, as a new nation took shape b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crèvecoeur, J Hector St John de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554749
- Language: English
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The Histories
$10.95 Add to cart“The father of history,” as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535663
- Language: English
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The Analects
$10.95 Add to cartFew individuals have shaped their country’s civilization more profoundly than the Master Kong, better-known as Confucius (551-479 BC). His sayings and those of his disciples form the foundation of a d… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Confucius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540616
- Language: English
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Gulliver’s Travels
$7.95 Add to cartIn Gulliver’s Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by so… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Swift, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536848
- Language: English
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Much ADO about Nothing: The Oxford Shakespearemuch ADO about Nothing
$10.95 Add to cartSparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies.
This edition offers a newly edited- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536112
- Language: English
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The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartAlexander Pope has often been termed the first true professional poet in English, whose dealings with the book trade helped to produce the literary marketplace of the nineteenth and twentieth centurie… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pope, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537615
- Language: English
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Late Victorian Gothic Tales
$15.95 Add to cartThe Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught n… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Luckhurst, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538875
- Language: English
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The Blithedale Romance
$9.94 Add to cartAbjuring the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America. But the group is a powerful mix of competing ambitions and its idealism finds little satisfaction in … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554862
- Language: English
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The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
$9.94 Add to cartThe Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world’s great religious literature.
Like all religious texts in Pali, the Dham… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Carter, John Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555133
- Language: English
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An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
$16.95 Add to cart‘To a rational being there can be but one rule of conduct, justice, and one mode of ascertaining that rule, the exercise of his understanding.’
Godwin’s Political Justice is the founding text of phil- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Godwin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 01 2013
- ISBN10: 199642621
- Language: English
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Under Western Eyes
$11.95 Add to cartUnder Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrori… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552371
- Language: English
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Daisy Miller and an International Episode
$11.95 Read more“An inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence”
This unique edition reunites two tales which James intended to be complementary –“Daisy Miller” and “An International Episode.” Young Daisy Mill- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0199639884
- Language: English
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Castle Rackrent
$13.95 Add to cartWith her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley (1814). Politically risky, stylistically innov… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Edgeworth, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537550
- Language: English
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The American Senator
$11.95 Add to cartArabella Trefoil, the beautiful anti-heroine of this novel, inspired Trollope to write of her, “I wished to express the depth of my scorn for women who run down husbands.” Arabella’s determination to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537631
- Language: English
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
$10.95 Add to cartEdgar Allan Poe’s only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth. It is a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540470
- Language: English
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The Antiquary
$15.95 Add to cartThe Antiquary, Scott’s personal favorite among his novels, is characteristically wry and urbane. A mysterious young man calling himself ‘Lovel’ travels idly but fatefully toward the Scottish seaside t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Scott, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555710
- Language: English
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Under the Greenwood Tree
$11.95 Add to cart“Miss Fancy Day; as neat a little figure of fun as ever I see, and just husband-high.”
One of the most popular of Hardy’s novels, Under the Greenwood Tree is a delightful and humorous depiction of lif- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0199697205
- Language: English
