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Germinal
$8.94 Add to cartZola’s masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola’s death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom fro… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, Émile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536899
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$12.95 Read moreThis new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539022
- 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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Phineas Finn
$11.95 Add to cartThe second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series, Phineas Finn‘s engaging plot embraces matters as diverse as reform, the position of women, the Irish question, and the conflict between integrity and am… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: December 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0199581436
- 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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Classics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWe are all classicists–we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0192853856
- 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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Resurrection
$13.95 Add to cartResurrection, the last of Tolstoy’s major novels, tells the story of a nobleman’s attempt to redeem himself for the suffering his youthful philandering caused a peasant girl. Tolstoy’s vision of redem… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555761
- Language: English
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The House of Mirth
$10.95 Add to cartSince its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton’s observations and the power of her style. A lucid, disturbing analysis of the stifling limitation… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538107
- Language: English
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
$11.95 Add to cartOne of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a terrifying tale of murder and amorality, and of one man’s de… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hogg, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0199217955
- 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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Hard Times
$7.95 Add to cartHard Times–Dickens’s shortest novel and one of his triumphs–tells the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father and has had lasting appeal to generations of readers.
About the Series: For over- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536279
- Language: English
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Parzival and Titurel
$14.95 Add to cartWritten in the first decade of the thirteenth century, Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. It tells of Parzival’s growth from youthful folly to knighthood at the court of King Art… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Eschenbach, Wolfram Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539200
- Language: English
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A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings
$6.95 Add to cart‘Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.’
Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of ‘a school of sentimental writers’, A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sterne, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537186
- 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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Comedy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartTo consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that wri… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bevis, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0199601712
- Language: English
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Children’s Literature
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction provides a lively and comprehensive discussion of children’s literature–what it is, why it is interesting, how it contributes to culture, and how it is studied as literat… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Reynolds, Kimberley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0199560242
- Language: English
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The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartPreviously published in the Oxford Authors series, this unique one-volume selection of Milton’s poetry and prose includes all the English and Italian verse and a generous selection of his major prose … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Milton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199539189
- Language: English
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The Ambassadors
$8.94 Add to cartThe second of James’s three late masterpieces, was, in its author’s opinion, “the best, all round, of my productions”.
Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538549
- Language: English
