Oxford World's Classics
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The Assommoir
$11.95 Add to cartb ‘in this life, even if you don’t ask for much you still end up with bugger all!’ /b
In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a p- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 019882856X
- Language: English
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Francis Bacon: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon’s writing–the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available–that reveals the essence of … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Bacon, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540799
- Language: English
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The Jewish War
$15.95 Read moreIn August of AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a six-month siege. This was the disastrous outcome of a Jewish revolt against Roman domination which began in AD 66 with so… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Josephus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0199646023
- Language: English
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Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology
$15.95 Add to cartThe First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent. Its poets mark the conflict in ways that are both intensely personal and as enduring as any monument. Their lines have come to… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Kendall, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0198703201
- Language: English
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Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon: Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings
$8.94 Add to cart‘I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others-of resigning my own judgement in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect.’
The unfinished fictions collecte- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198835892
- Language: English
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The Mill on the Floss
$10.95 Add to cart‘Was her life to be always like this? – always bringing some new source of inward strife?’
When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes entangled in lawsuits, he sets off a chain of events that will profoundly- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198707533
- Language: English
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Philosophical Enquiry Sublime and Beautiful
$15.95 Add to cartPaul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke’s ‘Enquiry’, focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors from … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Burke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019966871X
- Language: English
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Cranford
$11.95 Add to cartA vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. This edition inclu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0199558302
- Language: English
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Teenage Writings
$12.95 Add to cartThree notebooks of Jane Austen’s early writings survive. The pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left scho… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0198737459
- Language: English
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The Moonstone
$9.94 Add to cartWho, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel’s drawer?
One of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century sensation fiction, The Moonstone tells of a mystery that for page after- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198819390
- Language: English
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Barchester Towers
$12.95 Add to cart‘Mr Slope flattered himself that he could out-manoeuvre the lady…he did not doubt of ultimate triumph.’
Barchester Towers (1857) was the book that made Trollope’s reputation and it remains his most- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199665869
- Language: English
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Troilus and Criseyde
$10.95 Add to cartChaucer’s masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This is … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555079
- Language: English
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A Study in Scarlet
$9.94 Add to cart“There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life.”
In Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous ch- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0198856040
- Language: English
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
$12.95 Add to cart“No one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied.”
As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In “The Death of Iva- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199669880
- Language: English
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The Flowers of Evil
$13.95 Add to cartThe Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Baudelaire, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535582
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
$14.95 Add to cartIn his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and waste t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Veblen, Thorstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552584
- Language: English
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The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
$14.95 Add to cartSomething pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle…
Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror tha- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Machen, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198805101
- Language: English
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The Song of Roland
$12.95 Add to cartCharles the king, our emperor great,
Charlemagne (768-814) was cr
Has been a full seven years in Spain.
As far as the sea he conquered this haughty land.
Not a single castle remains standing in his path- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Gaunt, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0199655545
- Language: English
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
$13.95 Add to cartA shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island, the guest of a notorious scientist, Doctor Moreau. Disturbed by the cries of animals in pain, and by his encounters with … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198702663
- Language: English
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Symposium
$8.94 Add to cartIn his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests–including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato’s mentor Socrates–each deliver a … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199540195
- Language: English
