Oxford World's Classics
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
$14.95 Add to carthus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche’s own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this book he addresses the problem of how to live … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537097
- Language: English
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Past and Present
$8.94 Add to cartThomas Carlyle’s Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a ‘miraculous thunder-voice, from ou… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Carlyle, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0198841086
- Language: English
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William Blake: Selected Poems
$13.95 Add to cart“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the Eng
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour”- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Blake, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198804466
- Language: English
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Scenes of Clerical Life
$13.95 Add to cart‘the only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that which enables us to feel with him’
George Eliot’s first published work consisted of three short novellas: ‘The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Bart- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199689601
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
$8.94 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author’s unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlyin… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537038
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
$13.95 Read moreSir Percy Blakeney lives a double life in the England of 1792: at home he is an idle fop and a leader of fashion, but abroad he is the Scarlet Pimpernel, a master of disguise who saves aristocrats fro… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Orczy, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0198791224
- Language: English
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Waverley
$15.95 Add to cart“The most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact.”
Edward Waverley, a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army, is sent to Scotland where he finds him- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Scott, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198716591
- Language: English
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Specimen Days
$11.95 Add to cart‘I obey my happy hour’s command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don’t do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.’
One of the best- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0198861389
- Language: English
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The Origins of Science Fiction
$11.95 Add to cart‘I seemed to gaze upon a vast space, the limits of which extended far beyond my vision…’
This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Newton, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0198891946
- Language: English
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Pan
$8.94 Add to cart‘When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling.’
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn spends a summer in nor- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rem, Tore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0192893459
- Language: English
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Poor Miss Finch
$11.95 Add to cartWilkie Collin’s intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better known novels, but it also overt
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 15, 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554064
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$12.95 Add to cartTwenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to clai… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198736479
- Language: English
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The Spirit of Controversy: And Other Essays
$12.95 Add to cartWilliam Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets…. [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hazlitt, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0199591954
- Language: English
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This Side of Paradise
$11.95 Add to cart‘The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.’
Following the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from in- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0198848110
- Language: English
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The Sign of the Four
$8.94 Add to cart‘I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.’
Mary Morstan receives a large pearl through the post- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0198862121
- Language: English
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Money
$16.95 Add to cart‘The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.’
Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way on- Series: Oxford Worlds Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 199608377
- Language: English
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The Wild Ass’s Skin
$14.95 Read moreThe first new English translation for more than 35 years of Balzac’s extraordinary The Wild Ass’s Skin, it is also the first edition in English to include Balzac’s original Preface of 1831. This novel… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Balzac, Honoré de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0199579504
- Language: English
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The Masnavi. Book Four
$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
- Author: Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0198783434
- Language: English
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Elegies of Chu
$16.95 Add to cartElegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate ex… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Williams, Nicholas Morrow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198818319
- Language: English
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Doctor Pascal
$11.95 Add to cart“There’s something of everything there, the best and the worst, the vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the river of life itself…”
Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in the rura… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, Émile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198746164
- Language: English
