Oxford University Press
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
$8.95 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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Compact Oxford Italian Dictionary
$19.98 Add to cartThe Compact Oxford Italian Dictionary covers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary Italian and English. Includes all essential Italian and English words, based on fin… [more below]
- Author: Oxford Languages
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: June 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0199663130
- Language: English
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English-English-Tamil Dictionary
$46.99 Read moreThis dictionary contains more than 50,000 entries, related phrases, idioms and more than 200 illustrations. Like our other Bilingual Dictionaries, this has been specially compiled for learners of Engl… [more below]
- Author: Murugan, V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1664
- Publish Date: December 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0199472238
- Language: English
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Jude the Obscure
$8.94 Add to cartHardy’s last and most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure caused much outrage when it was published in 1895. Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953702X
- Language: English
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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
$10.95 Add to cartIn The Sketch-Book (1820-21), Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. In two sketches, he experiments with tales transplanted from Europe, thereby… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Irving, Washington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555818
- Language: English
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Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPublic interest in biblical archaeology is at an all-time high, as television documentaries pull in millions of viewers to watch shows on the Exodus, the Ark of the Covenant, and the so-called Lost To… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cline, Eric H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0195342631
- Language: English
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Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartTraditionally, economists have based their economic predictions on the assumption that humans are super-rational creatures, using the information we are given efficiently and generally making selfish … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Baddeley, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 019875499X
- Language: English
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Zofloya: Or the Moor
$15.95 Add to cartFew venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.’ This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dacre, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549737
- Language: English
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Augustine: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAugustine was arguably the greatest early Christian philosopher. His teachings had a profound effect on Medieval scholarship, Renaissance humanism, and the religious controversies of both the Reformat… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #38
- Author: Chadwick, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854526
- Language: English
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The Oxford Shakespearetwelfth Night, or What You Will
$10.95 Add to cartTwelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout. Peopled with lovers misled ei… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536090
- Language: English
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Dialogues and Essays
$18.95 Add to cartAlain de Botton’s bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy–later made into a six-part TV series–has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offer… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552401
- Language: English
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Mirabelle and the Naughty Bat Kittens: Volume 5
$6.99 Add to cartMirabelle’s mum is a witch, her dad is a fairy, and she is a bit of both! Mirabelle is on a school trip to a magical-creature animal sanctuary when she accidentally lets the bat kittens out of their e… [more below]
- Series: Mirabelle
- Author: Muncaster, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0192777572
- Language: English
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
$13.95 Add to cartIt is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: “When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.” So begins Ka… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199238553
- Language: English
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Mary Barton
$8.94 Add to cartSet in Manchester in the 1840s, Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city’s working-class community. Paralleling the novel’s treatment of the relationship between… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 199538352
- Language: English
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Looking Backward 2000-1887
$12.95 Add to cartJulian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wakes up in the year 2000, America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic soc… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Bellamy, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552576
- Language: English
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The Wendigo and Other Stories
$9.94 Add to cart‘See!…The woods are alive! Already the Great Ones are there, and the dance will soon begin! The salve is here! Anoint yourself and come!’
One of the greatest writers of the strange and weird, Alger- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Blackwood, Algernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0198848889
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica
$13.95 Add to cart“He was a man like no other man has ever been”
In twelve years that changed the world, Alexander the Great conquered a vast empire, extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab, and from Egyp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hammond, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0199587248
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
$12.95 Add to cartIn The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achie… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199219222
- Language: English
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Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfac… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bull, Anna Cento
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198726511
- Language: English
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The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend
$21.99 Add to cartThe Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, characters, symbols, and places. Seven essays… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Quick Reference
- Author: Lupack, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 11 2007
- ISBN10: 019921509X
- Language: English
