Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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Social Contract
$9.94 Add to cartRevolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau’s concepts of “the general will” as a … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538964
- Language: English
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On Christian Teaching
$12.95 Add to cartThe De Doctrina Christiana (“On Christian Teaching”) is one of Augustine’s most important works on the classical tradition. Undertaken at the same time as the Confessions, it sheds light on the develo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Augustine, St
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540632
- Language: English
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The Education of Henry Adams
$14.95 Add to cartAs a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past Presidents, Henry Adams was forever focused on the experiences and expectations unique to America. A prompt bestselle… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Adams, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552363
- Language: English
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Orlando Furioso
$17.95 Add to cartThe only unabridged prose translation of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso–a witty parody of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France–this version faithfully recaptures the en… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Ariosto, Ludovico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540381
- Language: English
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The Complete Fairy Tales
$13.95 Add to cart“Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!”
Charles Perrault’s versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping B- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Perrault, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0199585806
- Language: English
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The Charterhouse of Parma
$12.95 Add to cartThe Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring. Set at the beginning of the 19th-century in northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a han… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555346
- Language: English
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Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-Text
$14.95 Add to cartThis is a new annotated translation of the B-text, Langland’s own extensive revision of his original text. One of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman remains of enduring inter… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Langland, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555265
- Language: English
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The Good Soldier
$12.95 Add to cartThe Good Soldier is Ford Madox Ford’s masterpiece, a riveting story and one of the most compelling examples of early Modernism: a virtuoso performance of how to use an “unreliable narrator.” Wealthy A… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Ford, Ford Madox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0199585946
- Language: English
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Vathek
$11.95 Add to cart“Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!”
One of the strangest and most unforgettable eighteenth-century nov- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Beckford, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: June 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0199576955
- Language: English
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
$13.95 Add to cartOne of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In the harb… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Berthoud, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555915
- Language: English
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The Kreutzer Sonata: And Other Stories
$10.95 Add to cartThese four novellas–Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Cossacks, and Hadji Murad–each unique in form, show Tolstoy at his creative height. This edition uses the acclaimed Maude translations,… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555796
- Language: English
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Selected Tales
$13.95 Add to cartThe tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fairytale imagining. Grand palaces, humble c… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Grimm, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555583
- Language: English
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Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartAfter years of indifference and neglect, John Clare (1793-1864) is now recognized as one of the greatest English Romantic poets. Clare was an impoverished agricultural laborer, whose genius was genera… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Clare, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549796
- Language: English
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The Female Quixote: Or the Adventures of Arabella
$13.95 Add to cartThe Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabella, the beautiful daughter of a marquis, whose passion for reading romances colors her approach to h… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lennox, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540241
- Language: English
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Aeneid. Virgil
$16.95 Add to cart- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Day Lewis, C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537488
- Language: English
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
$12.95 Add to cartMale, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade’ of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid?e is the confidence man’? The central motif of Melville’s last and most … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554854
- Language: English
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
$10.95 Add to cartThe complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Its prime movers, the Vicomte de… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Laclos, Pierre Choderlos De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536481
- Language: English
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Dombey & Son
$9.94 Add to cartMr. Dombey’s idealistic vision of his “Dombey and Son” shipping firm rests on the shoulders of his delicate son Paul. However, when the firm faces ruin, and Dombey’s second marriage ends in disaster, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536287
- Language: English
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Rob Roy
$10.95 Add to cartBy turns thrilling and comic, Rob Roy contains Scott’s most sophisticated treatment of the Scottish Highlands as an imaginary space where the modern and the primitive come together. Newly edited from … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Scott, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549885
- Language: English
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The Satyricon
$12.95 Add to cartThe Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre. It recounts the sleazy pr… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Petronius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539219
- Language: English
