Oxford World's Classics
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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 Read moreEdith 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
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Louise de la Vallière
$15.95 Add to cartLouise de la Valli?re is the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or, Ten Years After. Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Dumas, Alexandre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 019953845X
- Language: English
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Gothic Tales
$14.95 Add to cartArthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Conan Doyle, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198734301
- Language: English
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
$12.95 Add to cart“I am going to sink it.”
French naturalist Dr Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down a sea monster, b
“You are not!”
“I am,” he coldly replied. “Do not take it on yourself to judge me, monsieur.”- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 198818645
- Language: English
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Doctor Thorne
$15.95 Add to cart‘Frank has but one duty before him. He must marry money.’
The squire of Greshamsbury has fallen on hard times, and it is incumbent on his son Frank to make a good marriage. But Frank loves the doctor’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199662789
- Language: English
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The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: And Other Stories
$9.94 Add to cartI entered the church…It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead…
Vernon Lee was a polymath whose co- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Lee, Vernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0198837542
- Language: English
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The Story of an African Farm
$12.95 Read moreThis pioneering work was a cause celebre when it appeared in London, transforming the shape and course of the late Victorian novel. Lynall, Schreiner’s articulate young feminist, marks the entry of th… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Schreiner, Olive
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538018
- Language: English
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The Swann Way
$12.95 Add to cart‘The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment…’
The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 14 2023
- ISBN10: 019887152X
- Language: English
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The Beautiful and Damned
$12.95 Add to cart‘The victor belongs to the spoils.’
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), is a devastating portrait of a generation of wealthy young Americans who struggle to find meani- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0198854668
- Language: English
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Lark Rise to Candleford
$12.95 Add to cart‘People were poorer and had not the comforts, amusements, or knowledge we have today; but they were happier.’
Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson’s classic evocation of a vanished world of agric- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Thompson, Flora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198796692
- Language: English
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The Romance of the Forest
$12.95 Add to cartThis novel, although not as well-known as Radcliffe’s later works, is thought to represent her work at its best. More than just a work of suspense and mystery, it is a work of ideas–a discussion of t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Radcliffe, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539227
- Language: English
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La Debacle
$15.95 Add to cartThe penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola’s lifetime it was the b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198801890
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative
$12.95 Add to cartOlaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, in which the author describes his birth in Africa, his enslavement and transportation to America, and his journey from slavery to freedom, was published just a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198707525
- Language: English
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The Book of Marvels and Travels
$14.95 Read moreIn his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. Written i… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Mandeville, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0199600600
- Language: English
