Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
$12.95 Add to cartRousseau’s last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tries to come to terms with his isolation and to find happiness in solitude and na… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0199563276
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$12.95 Add to cartFederico Garc? Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for several collections of poems published both in his short lifetim… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lorca, Federico Garc?a
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199556016
- Language: English
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The Masnavi, Book Three
$15.95 Add to cartRumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199652031
- Language: English
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The Republic and the Laws
$12.95 Add to cartCicero’s The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019954011X
- Language: English
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Collected Poems and Other Verse
$16.95 Add to cartSt?phane Mallarm? was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, pe… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Mallarm?, St?phane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537925
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$13.95 Add to cartVerlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud as one of the most influential poets of late nineteenth-century France. Remarkable not only for his exquisitely crafted verse, Verlaine is a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Verlaine, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554013
- Language: English
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The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville/The Marriage of Figaro/The Guilty Mother
$12.95 Add to cartEighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theater star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to combine with Don Quixote and D’Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199539979
- Language: English
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The Winter’s Tale: The Oxford Shakespearethe Winter’s Tale
$10.95 Add to cartThe Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s most fully realized tragicomedy, noted for the richness and complexity of its poetry. Though the title may suggest an escapist fantasy, recent criticism has seen in … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535914
- Language: English
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Catiline’s Conspiracy, the Jugurthine War, Histories
$15.95 Add to cartSallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint sharp-edged portraits of the moral and political degeneration of the Roman Republic. Sallust’s abrupt… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sallust
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0192823450
- Language: English
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The Bhagavad Gita
$8.94 Add to cartThe Bhagavad Gita is the most widely read Hindu religious text in the Western world and a key work for understanding Indian religions and the way Hinduism has been represented in modern India and the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Johnson, W. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538123
- Language: English
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
$14.95 Add to cartThe Varieties of Religious Experience is William James’s classic survey of religious belief. With psychological insight and philosophical rigor, James wrote a truly foundational text for modern belief… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0199691649
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers
$15.95 Add to cartThe Federalist Papers–85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press–are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0192805924
- Language: English
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Dialogues and Natural History of Religion
$9.94 Add to cartDavid Hume is one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in English. His Dialogues ask if a belief in God can be inferred from what is known of the universe, or whether such a belief is … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538328
- Language: English
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Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works
$14.95 Add to cartTennyson was the chief poetic voice of his age, and he remains one of the most highly regarded masters of the music and mood of verse. This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tennyson, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199572763
- Language: English
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The Homeric Hymns
$12.95 Add to cartMost people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer’s two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times. The Ho… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crudden, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 19 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554757
- Language: English
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The Communist Manifesto
$6.95 Add to cartRegarded as one of the most influential political tracts ever written, The Communist Manifesto serves as the foundation document of the Marxist movement. This summary of the Marxist vision is an incis… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019953571X
- Language: English
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Leucippe and Clitophon
$13.95 Add to cartAchilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqu? of the five “Greek novels” of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tatius, Achilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555478
- Language: English
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Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds
$13.95 Add to cartThis narrative of events between the years 1173 and 1202–as recorded by Jocelin of Brakelond, a monk who lived in the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, in the region of West Suffolk–affords many unique ins… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Jocelin of Brakelond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554935
- Language: English
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartSamuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537917
- Language: English
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/The Greater Ch Ronicle/Bede’s Letter to Egbert
$13.95 Add to cartThe Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede’s most famous work. As well as providing the authoritative Colgrave translation of the Ecclesiastical History, this edition includes a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Bede
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537232
- Language: English
