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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 Short Story: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Kahn, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198754639
- Language: English
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Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories
$15.95 Add to cart‘Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science’
For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199672067
- Language: English
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Dante’s Divine Comedy Set
$63.00 Read moreAn invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding. Sinclair’s three-volume prose translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy provi… [more below]
- Author: Alighieri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199794049
- Language: English
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A Case of Hysteria: (Dora)
$11.95 Add to cart“I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora’s nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation.”
A new translation of one of Freud’s most important and intriguing texts, A Case o- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0199639868
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
$8.94 Add to cart‘Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. ‘Where is your nephew?’ repeated Neveille. ‘Why do you ask me?’ ‘I ask you, ‘ retorted Jasper, ‘because you were the last person in his company, and he i… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554617
- Language: English
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Sartor Resartus
$12.95 Add to cartSartor Resartus (“The Tailor Retailored”) is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are s… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Carlyle, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540373
- Language: English
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Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
$13.95 Add to cartDeceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld’s shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust,… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: La Rochefoucauld, François de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540004
- 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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Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0199754918
- 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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Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPerhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China’s survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political hi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Knight, Sabina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 03 2012
- ISBN10: 019539206X
- Language: English
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Eugénie Grandet
$13.95 Add to cart‘Who is going to marry Eug?nie Grandet?’
This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eug?nie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in B- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555893
- Language: English
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Classical Literary Criticism
$11.95 Add to cartThis volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of literary criticism, including Aristotle’s Poetics, Horace’s Art of Poetry, Longinus’ on Sublimity, Tacitus’ Dialogues, and extracts from Pl… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Russell, D. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549818
- Language: English
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology
$12.95 Read moreCrossley-Holland–the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts–introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crossley-Holland, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538719
- 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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Hamilton: The Energetic Founder
$19.98 Add to cartIn Hamilton: The Energetic Founder, R. B. Bernstein provides a thorough history that reveals Hamilton’s status as one of the key founding fathers of the United States.
Hamilton: The Energetic Founder- Author: Bernstein, R. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0190081988
- Language: English
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American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFew Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Maisel, L. Sandy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0197605117
- Language: English
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Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFilm noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s–shadowy, blac… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Naremore, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0198791747
- Language: English
