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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… [more below]
- 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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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
$8.94 Add to cartBilly Budd is among the greatest of Melville’s works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538913
- Language: English
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Exemplary Stories
$12.95 Add to cartMore popular in their day than Don Quxixote, Cervantes’s Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, the Exemplary Stories defy the conventi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Decervantes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555001
- Language: English
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Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica)
$13.95 Add to cartThe Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Apollonius of Rhodes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538727
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$10.95 Add to cartSir Gawain and the Green Knight is probably the most skillfuly told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two ancient C… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Harrison, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540160
- Language: English
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The Comedies
$16.95 Add to cart‘I thought you’d do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son’s having an affair.’
Terence’s comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from cl… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0199556032
- Language: English
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Ivanhoe
$10.95 Add to cartIn Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance at the end of 1819. With the secret return of King Ric… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Scott, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 622
- Publish Date: January 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199538409
- Language: English
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The History of the English People 1000-1154
$14.95 Add to cartHenry of Huntingdon’s narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the vi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Henry of Huntingdon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554803
- Language: English
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Autobiography and Other Writings
$9.94 Add to cartFranklin’s writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry–the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554900
- Language: English
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Melmoth the Wanderer
$12.95 Add to cartWritten by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, Melmoth Wanderer brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity. Its tormented villain, a Faustian transgressor d… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Maturin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540292
- Language: English
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Seneca: Selected Letters
$13.95 Add to cartSeneca’s letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca’s personal life and the truly turbulent times in which he lived. One of the great Sto… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199533210
- Language: English
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Babbitt
$10.95 Add to cartAmusing and tragic by turn, Sinclair Lewis’s classic novel is a biting satire of middle-American values whose title has entered the language as a byword for smug complacency, conformity, and materiali… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0199567697
- Language: English
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Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines
$10.95 Add to cartWith the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a sat… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537992
- Language: English
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Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works
$13.95 Add to cartAlexander Pushkin’s dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin’s own unique, condens… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pushkin, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554048
- Language: English
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A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
$10.95 Read moreThis volume includes “The Battle of the Books” and “The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit”, both which accompanied “A Tale of a Tub” on its first publication in 1704.
About the Series: For over 100 y- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Swift, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549788
- Language: English
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The War of the Worlds
$9.94 Add to cartOne of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0198702647
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
$11.95 Add to cartCousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac’s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violen… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553947
- Language: English
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Sister Carrie
$13.95 Add to cartWhen a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dreiser, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539081
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners
$10.95 Add to cartOne of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert’s… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535655
- Language: English
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Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales: A Selection
$10.95 Add to cartThis collection of twenty-six tales features reproductions of the original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich, especially photographed from the drawings in the Hans Andersen Museum a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Andersen, Hans Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555850
- Language: English
