Oxford World's Classics
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Macbeth: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Read more‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’
Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatricall- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192862421
- Language: English
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
$13.95 Read moreThis, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the most astute study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Engels, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555885
- Language: English
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy
$9.94 Read moreIn Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living a wild and secret life with birds and fairies in the middle of London. Later Barrie let this remarkable child … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Barrie, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537844
- Language: English
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Exiles
$11.95 Add to cart‘That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers…’
Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce’s only surviving play. It tel- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198800061
- Language: English
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The Library, Books 16-20: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Successors
$16.95 Add to cartStarting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in Europe
The Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily is one of our most valuable sources from ancient times. His history- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Siculus, Diodorus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198759886
- Language: English
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
$15.95 Add to cart‘An indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself’
The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents. Now living in Paris, Malte begins to re- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199646031
- Language: English
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Guide to the Lakes
$12.95 Add to cartWilliam Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes gives a first-hand account of his feelings about the unique countryside that was the source of his inspiration. He addresses concerns that are relevant today, s… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wordsworth, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0198848099
- Language: English
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Orlando
$9.99 Add to cart‘I feel the need of an escapade after these serious poetic experimental books…I want to kick up my heels & be off.’
Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 31 2024
- ISBN10: 019965073X
- Language: English
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On the Soul: And Other Psychological Works
$14.95 Add to cart“…the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul…”
What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 019958821X
- Language: English
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Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes
$13.95 Add to cartAristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0192824090
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
$11.95 Add to cartNietzsche’s mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable v… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537070
- Language: English
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The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings
$17.95 Add to cart‘Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.’
Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Descartes, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199684138
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$11.95 Add to cart‘It was said to me, “Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; ’tis not best that you seem too learned.”‘
Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiograp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198820712
- Language: English
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On Life and Death
$16.95 Add to cartMarcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome’s greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0199644144
- Language: English
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Theaetetus
$15.95 Add to cart‘What exactly is knowledge?’
The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Plato’s finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a clever b- Series: Oxford Worlds Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199646163
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
$12.95 Add to cart‘It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0198835329
- Language: English
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Miss Julie and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartThis edition embraces Strindberg’s crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Strindberg, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538042
- Language: English
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Oresteia
$11.95 Add to cartThe Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy–the inexorable natur… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953781X
- Language: English
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
$11.95 Add to cart‘what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent’
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in Englis- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0198861370
- Language: English
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Birds and Other Plays
$11.95 Add to cartThis new verse translation of Aristophanes’ comedies offers one of the world’s great comic dramatists in a form that is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes’ plays were p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555672
- Language: English
