Oxford World's Classics
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The Castle
$13.95 Add to cartKafka’s last novel, The Castle is set in a remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats. The novel breaks ne… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199238286
- Language: English
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The Italian
$16.95 Add to cartFather Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villai… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Radcliffe, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198704437
- Language: English
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The Prisoner of Zenda
$9.94 Add to cart‘If love were the only thing, I would follow you-in rags if need be … But is love the only thing?’
Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda is a swashbuckling adventure set in Ruritania, a mythical pock- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198841094
- Language: English
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Barry Lyndon: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
$13.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1844, this is Thackeray’s earliest substantial work of fiction and perhaps his most original. The text is that of Saintbury’s 1908 Oxford edition which incorporates Thackeray’s revi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537461
- Language: English
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
$11.95 Add to cartAt once endlessly facetious and highly serious, Sterne’s great comic novel contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature–including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Parson … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Sterne, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: December 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0199532893
- Language: English
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New Grub Street
$16.95 Add to cart‘Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.’
Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of cri- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Gissing, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198729189
- Language: English
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Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction
$8.94 Add to cart‘The ponderous woman looked through the pattern of falling words at the flowers standing cool, firm, and upright in the earth, with a curious expression. . .So heavy the woman came to a standstill opp… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 198838131
- Language: English
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Sanditon
$5.95 Add to cart‘no person could be really well . . . without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year’
In Sanditon, Jane Austen writes what may well be the first seaside novel: a novel, that is, that explor- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198840837
- Language: English
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Uncle Silas
$13.95 Add to cart‘The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.’
In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at the claustrophobic Bart… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Le Fanu, Sheridan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0198864353
- Language: English
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The Small House at Allington
$15.95 Add to cart‘She had resolved to trust in everything, and, having so trusted, she would not provide for herself any possibility of retreat.’
Lively and attractive, Lily Dale lives with her mother and sister at th- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199662770
- Language: English
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The End of the Tether: And Other Stories
$12.95 Add to cart‘(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths’
– B… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0192896822
- Language: English
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The Poems of Catullus
$13.95 Add to cartOf all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal tone exerts a powerful … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Catullus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537577
- Language: English
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The Masnavi, Book Five
$12.95 Add to cart‘If something else can capture your attention
This is the first ever
Then it’s not love, but just a trivial passion –
Love is that flame which, once it blazes up,
Burns everything but the Beloved up.’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2022
- ISBN10: 019285707X
- Language: English
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Jacob’s Room
$9.99 Add to cart‘What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages — oh, here is Jacob’s room.’
Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf’s third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0192857398
- Language: English
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Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales; Marriage; The Government Inspector
$10.95 Add to cartThis volume brings together Gogol’s Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555060
- Language: English
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Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson
$12.95 Add to cartThe modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horror, co… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jones, Darryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0199685444
- Language: English
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
$8.94 Add to cartFalsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. Like a spider from a fairy-tale, Silas fills f… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0198724640
- Language: English
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The Art of Rhetoric
$14.95 Add to cartFor all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies…
Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of the subject, and it remains among the most incisive work- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2018
- ISBN10: 019872425X
- Language: English
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Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
$12.95 Add to cart[T]he present groundwork is nothing more than the identification and vindication of the supreme principle of morality.’
In the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Immanuel Kant makes clea- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198786190
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus
$14.95 Add to cartOedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. I- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0192806858
- Language: English
