Oxford World's Classics
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Epigrams: With Parallel Latin Text
$16.95 Read more“If you’re one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.”
The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Martial
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199645450
- Language: English
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Hunger
$8.94 Add to cart‘It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them…’
Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hamsun, Knut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0192862847
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby
$8.99 Add to cart- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 12 2025
- ISBN10: 019886440X
- Language: English
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The Complete Writings
$13.99 Add to cart‘Forget the years, forget norms, let yourself be stirred by the boundless.’
The Zhuangzi — an anthology of anonymous writings produced in China between the fourth and second centuries BC — is one of- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zhuangzi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0192862499
- Language: English
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The Well of Loneliness
$12.99 Add to cart‘If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.’
The Well of Loneliness is among the most famous banned books in history. A pioneering work of literature,- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hall, Radclyffe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0192894455
- Language: English
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Collected Verse
$12.99 Add to cart‘The wind is rising!… Let us try to live!’
One of the preeminent intellectuals of modern French culture, Val?ry is widely considered one of the country’s greatest poets of the twentieth century. Fol- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Val?ry, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10 2024
- ISBN10: 198820321
- Language: English
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Leaves of Grass
$11.99 Add to cart‘I spring from the pages into your arms’
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass stands as one of the most influential and innovative literary works of the last two hundred years. Widely credited as the origin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0192894447
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
$7.99 Add to cart‘No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.’
Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about d- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 019884106X
- Language: English
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Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Add to cart‘A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life’
This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare’s enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192866362
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$24.95 Add to cartAt its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties – to her marriage and to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0198800533
- Language: English
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The Life of Christina of Markyate
$15.95 Add to cart‘I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.’
This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became prioress of Markyate, near St Albans in Hertfordshire.- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Fanous, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 11 2010
- ISBN10: 199556059
- Language: English
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The Interpretation of Dreams
$13.95 Add to cart‘Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source’
Artemidorus’ The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Artemidorus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0198797958
- Language: English
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Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology
$12.95 Add to cart‘Who would you say knows himself?’
In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contempo- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0198856091
- Language: English
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Dead Souls: A Poem
$13.95 Read moreGogol’s tale of a dismissed civil servant turned unscrupulous confidence man is the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature. With its rich and ebullient language, ironic… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554668
- Language: English
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The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five
$14.95 Add to cart“The fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world’s mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods”
Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the br- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Livy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199540047
- Language: English
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Selected Poems: With Parallel French Text
$15.95 Read more‘In the end you’re tired of this antiquated world’
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism, and the most colourful. His exuberant, adventurous poetry m- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Apollinaire, Guillaume
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199687595
- Language: English
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Belinda
$13.95 Add to cart‘It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.’
Maria Edgeworth’s 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, some- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Edgeworth, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0199682135
- Language: English
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Nana
$12.95 Add to cart‘She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.’
Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic hig- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198814267
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cart‘The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.’
Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198709870
- Language: English
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides res… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Johnson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198798741
- Language: English
