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The Histories
$15.95 Read moreHere is the first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius’ Histories, the major source for our knowledge of the Eternal City’s early rise to power, covering the years of the Second Punic War… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Polybius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0199534705
- Language: English
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The Qur’an
$12.95 Add to cartOne of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, the Qur’an is the supreme authority and living source of all Islamic teaching
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Haleem, M. A. S. Abdel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 502
- Publish Date: June 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535957
- Language: English
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On the Genealogy of Morals
$11.95 Add to cartOn the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about interpretation and the history of ethics which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both. This is the most sustained of Nietzsch
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 15, 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537089
- Language: English
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Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings
$11.95 Read moreThomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution–and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Paine, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 019953800X
- Language: English
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A Vindication of the Rights of Men/A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
$10.95 Add to cartThis volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant respo
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 15, 2009
- ISBN10: 019955546X
- Language: English
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The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story
$10.95 Add to cart‘Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!’
The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fictio- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Walpole, Horace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0198704445
- Language: English
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Middlemarch
$10.95 Add to cart‘The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts’
The greatest ‘state of the nation’ novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in t- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: July 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 0198815514
- Language: English
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The Pilgrim’s Progress
$9.94 Add to cartThe Pilgrim’s Progress has inspired readers for over three centuries. It is one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature and is a classic of the heroic Puritan tradition and … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Bunyan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538131
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$7.95 Add to cartSince its first publication in 1890, Oscar Wilde’s only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, has remained the subject of critical controversy. Acclaimed by some as an instructive moral tale, it has been… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535981
- Language: English
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The Karamazov Brothers
$14.95 Add to cartDostoevsky’s last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1054
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536376
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales
$8.94 Read moreBeyond all doubt the greatest work of English literature before Shakespeare, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales brings together an unforgettable group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, pilgrims who … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0199599025
- Language: English
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Evelina
$12.95 Add to cartFrances Burney’s first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describ… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Burney, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536937
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda
$16.95 Add to cart‘She sees, coming up a second time,
After the terrible conflagration of Ragnaro
Earth from the ocean, eternally green;
the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,
over the mountain hunting fish.’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Larrington, Carolyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199675341
- Language: English
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The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
$22.95 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 Hardback Collection
- Author: Machen, Arthur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198813163
- Language: English
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Mansfield Park
$7.95 Add to cartAt the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535531
- Language: English
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Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard
$8.94 Add to cartChekhov’s worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536694
- Language: English
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The Monk
$9.94 Read more‘He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.’
The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and th- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Lewis, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198704453
- Language: English
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
$6.95 Add to cartWhether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as “the most hopelessly evil story we have e… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536171
- Language: English
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The Consolation of Philosophy
$14.95 Add to cartBoethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Gothic rule, which he protested as manifestly unjust…. [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Boethius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540543
- Language: English
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The Nicomachean Ethics
$14.95 Add to cartA student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is one of the towering figures in Western thought. A brilliant thinker with wide-ranging interests, he wrote important works in physi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199213615
- Language: English
