Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
$11.95 Read moreElfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of hi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538492
- Language: English
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Ruth
$10.95 Add to cartElizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth (1853) was the first mainstream novel to make a fallen woman its eponymous heroine. It is a remarkable story of love, of the sanctuary and tyranny of the family, and of the co… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0199581959
- Language: English
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The Odd Women
$14.95 Add to cartA novel of social realism, The Odd Women reflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Unlike the “New Woman” novels of the era which challenged the idea that the unmar… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gissing, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199538301
- Language: English
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The Civil War
$11.95 Add to cartThe Civil War is Caesar’s masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey’s death and the start of the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540624
- Language: English
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The History of King Lear: The Oxford Shakespearethe History of King Lear
$10.95 Add to cartKing Lear, widely considered Shakespeare’s most deeply moving, passionately expressed, and intellectually ambitious play, has almost always been edited from the revised version printed in the First Fo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535825
- Language: English
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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
$16.95 Add to cartEmpire Writing is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Boehmer, Elleke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555591
- Language: English
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Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney’s poetry and prose–all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies–that reveals the essence of his work and think… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sidney, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538417
- Language: English
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Phaedrus
$10.95 Add to cartPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554021
- Language: English
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Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales: A Selection
$10.95 Add to cartThis collection of twenty-six tales features reproductions of the original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich, especially photographed from the drawings in the Hans Andersen Museum a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Andersen, Hans Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555850
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners
$10.95 Add to cartOne of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert’s… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535655
- Language: English
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Sister Carrie
$13.95 Add to cartWhen a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dreiser, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539081
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
$11.95 Add to cartCousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac’s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violen… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553947
- Language: English
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A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
$10.95 Add to cartThis volume includes “The Battle of the Books” and “The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit”, both which accompanied “A Tale of a Tub” on its first publication in 1704.
About the Series: For over 100 y- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Swift, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549788
- Language: English
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Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works
$13.95 Add to cartAlexander Pushkin’s dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin’s own unique, condens… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pushkin, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554048
- Language: English
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Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines
$10.95 Add to cartWith the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a sat… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537992
- Language: English
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Babbitt
$10.95 Add to cartAmusing and tragic by turn, Sinclair Lewis’s classic novel is a biting satire of middle-American values whose title has entered the language as a byword for smug complacency, conformity, and materiali… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0199567697
- Language: English
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Seneca: Selected Letters
$13.95 Add to cartSeneca’s letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca’s personal life and the truly turbulent times in which he lived. One of the great Sto… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199533210
- Language: English
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Melmoth the Wanderer
$12.95 Add to cartWritten by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, Melmoth Wanderer brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity. Its tormented villain, a Faustian transgressor d… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Maturin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540292
- Language: English
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Autobiography and Other Writings
$9.94 Add to cartFranklin’s writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry–the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554900
- Language: English
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The History of the English People 1000-1154
$14.95 Read moreHenry of Huntingdon’s narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the vi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Henry of Huntingdon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554803
- Language: English
