Oxford World's Classics
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Elective Affinities
$13.95 Add to cartElective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany’s literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555362
- Language: English
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Green Tea: And Other Weird Stories
$11.95 Add to cart‘Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid…’
Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most importa- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Le Fanu, J. Sheridan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198835884
- Language: English
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The Duke’s Children Complete: Extended Edition
$16.95 Add to cartHe was alone in the world, and there was no one of whom he could ask a question.
After the sudden death of his wife, two years after he has left office as Prime Minister, the Duke of Omnium must
become- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: January 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0198835876
- Language: English
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The Enchanted April
$11.95 Read more‘To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine. Small medieval castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let For the month of April, above a bay on the Italian Riviera.’
Four very different wome- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198859090
- Language: English
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
$7.95 Add to cart‘Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!’
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Do- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0198835221
- Language: English
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Swann in Love
$11.95 Add to cartSwann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the story of Charles Swann illu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198744897
- Language: English
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The Essential Mòzǐ: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings
$16.95 Add to cart‘The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world’
The M?zi is among the founding texts of the Chinese philosophical tr… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Mo Zi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198848102
- Language: English
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Selected Poems and Songs
$17.95 Read more‘The Poetic Genius of my Country…bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.’
Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96)- Series: Oxford Worlds Classics
- Author: Burns, Robert R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199682321
- Language: English
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The Bright Side of Life
$13.95 Add to cartOrphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0198753616
- Language: English
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Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress
$15.95 Add to cartCecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney’s unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Burney, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019955238X
- Language: English
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Fasti
$11.95 Add to cart“Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.”
Ovid’s poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day-by-day a… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0192824112
- Language: English
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The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney
$18.95 Read moreAmong the most accomplished lyrics of the English Renaissance, The Sidney Psalter influenced poets from Donne and Herbert to Milton and beyond. It turned the well-known biblical psalms into sophistica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Sidney, Sir Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2009
- ISBN10: 0199217939
- Language: English
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The Trojan Women and Other Plays
$11.95 Add to cartThis volume of Euripides’ plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy’s survivors are harrowingly depicted. With un… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538816
- Language: English
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The War of the Worlds
$9.94 Add to cartOne of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0198702647
- Language: English
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Jude the Obscure
$8.95 Add to cartHardy’s last and most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure caused much outrage when it was published in 1895. Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953702X
- Language: English
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
$13.95 Add to cartIt is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: “When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.” So begins Ka… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199238553
- Language: English
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The Wendigo and Other Stories
$9.94 Add to cart‘See!…The woods are alive! Already the Great Ones are there, and the dance will soon begin! The salve is here! Anoint yourself and come!’
One of the greatest writers of the strange and weird, Alger- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Blackwood, Algernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0198848889
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica
$13.95 Add to cart“He was a man like no other man has ever been”
In twelve years that changed the world, Alexander the Great conquered a vast empire, extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab, and from Egyp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hammond, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0199587248
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
$12.95 Add to cartIn The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achie… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199219222
- Language: English
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Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration
$15.95 Add to cart‘Man being born…to perfect freedom…hath by nature a power…to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate.’
Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1689) is one of the great classi… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Locke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198732449
- Language: English
