Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
$10.95 Add to cartThe story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Collodi, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 14 2009
- ISBN10: 019955398X
- Language: English
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Tom Brown’s Schooldays
$11.95 Add to cartOne of the classics of English children’s literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, this novel’s steady popularity has given it an influence well beyond the upper middle… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hughes, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: August 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537305
- Language: English
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The Wind in the Willows
$12.95 Read moreOne of the best-known classics of children’s literature, a timeless masterpiece and a vital portrait of an age, The Wind in the Willows began originally in Kenneth Grahame’s letters to his young son, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Grahame, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0199567565
- Language: English
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Just So Stories: For Little Children
$6.95 Add to cartHow did the camel get his hump? Why won’t cats do as they are told? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling’s imagined answers to such questions draw o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538603
- Language: English
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Rome’s Italian Wars: Books 6-10
$14.95 Add to cart“People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe.”
Here is a superb new translation of Books 6 to 10 of Livy’s monumental history o- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Livy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 019956485X
- Language: English
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Selected Essays
$13.95 Read moreIn his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540306
- Language: English
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Eminent Victorians
$12.95 Read moreEminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey’s wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liber… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Strachey, Lytton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019955501X
- Language: English
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An Enemy of the People/The Wild Duck/Rosmersholm
$10.95 Add to cartTaken from the Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen’s plays includes An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, and Rosmersholm.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made ava… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Ibsen, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539138
- Language: English
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Henry V: The Oxford Shakespeare
$10.95 Add to cartThe introduction includes an examination of the Quarto and texts, and of the relationship between them; a critical discussion of the play’s historical and literary sources; an examination of conflicti… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536511
- Language: English
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Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives
$17.95 Add to cart“Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.” Hugh Latimer’s famous words of consolation … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Foxe, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199236844
- Language: English
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Four Major Plays
$13.95 Add to cartIn his four last plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dona Rosita the Spinster) Federico Garc? Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of th… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Garc?a Lorca, Federico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537518
- Language: English
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The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
$13.95 Add to cartThese two important essays show Schopenhauer at his most accessible, offering two self-contained and clearly argued contributions to ethical theory, published here in a new translation that preserves … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0199297223
- Language: English
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Heracles and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartEuripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555095
- Language: English
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The Plays and Fragments
$10.95 Add to cartThe greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Menander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954073X
- Language: English
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Collected Poems
$13.95 Add to cartRimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rimbaud, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199538956
- Language: English
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Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs
$15.95 Add to cart“The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love.” So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard’s Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous narrator, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199214190
- Language: English
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The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records
$14.95 Read more“The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.”
The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that laste- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Qian, Sima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199574391
- Language: English
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‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore and Other Plays: The Lover’s Melancholy; The Broken Heart; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore; Perkin Warbeck
$12.95 Add to cartFord wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection of four plays also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Ford, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553866
- Language: English
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All’s Well That Ends Well: The Oxford Shakespeare
$10.95 Add to cartUsually classified as a “problem comedy,” All’s Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her int… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537127
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Plassans
$14.95 Add to cart‘Abbe Faujas has arrived!’
The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Fran?is Mouret in particular. Faujas and his- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199664781
- Language: English
