Oxford World's Classics
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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 Add to cartThe 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
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Earth
$16.95 Add to cart‘Only the earth is immortal…the earth we love enough to commit murder for her.’
Zola’s novel of peasant life, the fifteenth in the Rougon-Macquart series, is generally regarded as one of his finest- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, Émile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199677875
- Language: English
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The Golden Pot and Other Tales: A New Translation by Ritchie Robertson
$12.95 Add to cartHoffmann, among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics, is renowned for his humorous and sometimes horrifying tales of supernatural beings. This selection, while stressing the variety o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hoffmann, E. T. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552479
- Language: English
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Typhoon and Other Tales
$9.94 Add to cartThis volume contains “Typhoon,” “The Secret Sharer,” “Falk,” and “Amy Foster.” “Typhoon”, a story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest, is a masterpiece of descriptive virtuosity and moral i… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539030
- Language: English
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Estate Management and Symposium
$11.95 Add to cartXenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was ap… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198823517
- Language: English
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The Custom of the Country
$12.95 Add to cartEdith Wharton’s satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major n… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555125
- Language: English
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Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
$11.95 Add to cartThis volume stands as the only available critical edition of two of the most popular classics in English literature. Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jerome, Jerome K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537976
- Language: English
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
$11.95 Add to cartArthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story ‘The Final Problem’, but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise T… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0198856709
- Language: English
