Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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Pot Luck
$10.95 Add to cartPot Luck, Zola’s most acerbic satire, describes daily life in a newly constructed block of flats in late nineteenth-century Paris. In examining the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola rev… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538700
- Language: English
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Sylvia’s Lovers
$13.95 Add to cart‘He’s spoilt my life, – he’s spoilt it for as long as iver I live on this earth’
The compelling story of an ordinary girl’s tragic passion for a man who disappears, Sylvia’s Lovers (1863) is Elizabeth … [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0199656738
- Language: English
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The Secret Garden
$8.94 Add to cartAn orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, and a walled garden, with its door locked and the key buried. These are the ingredients of one of the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0199588228
- Language: English
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Pancatantra: The Book of India’s Folk Wisdom
$12.95 Add to cartThe Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western languages. No other work of Indian literature has had a greater … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Olivelle, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555753
- Language: English
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Camilla or a Picture of Youth
$16.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people-Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere-and,… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Burney, Fanny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555745
- Language: English
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The Complete Odes
$15.95 Add to cartThe Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races, boxi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pindar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553904
- Language: English
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The Bostonians
$9.94 Add to cartFrom Boston’s social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of ‘the sisterhood of women.’ She acquires two … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539146
- Language: English
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Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man
$17.95 Add to cart‘For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.’
With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frederic Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursu- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199686637
- Language: English
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About Love and Other Stories
$9.94 Read moreRaymond Carver called Anton Chekhov “the greatest short story writer who has ever lived.” This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov’s genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Man… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536686
- Language: English
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Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology
$19.95 Add to cartAlthough we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century this division was not recognized. As the scientist John Tyndall pointed out, not only … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Otis, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 019955465X
- Language: English
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The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale
$13.95 Add to cart“I long to study the purely national, purely natural character of an Irishwoman.” When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father’s Irish estate as punishment for his dissipated wa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Owenson, Sydney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199552495
- Language: English
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News from Nowhere or an Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance
$15.95 Add to cartNews from Nowhere(1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris and the only significant English utopia to be written since Thomas More’s. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor fr… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Morris, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539197
- Language: English
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Trilby
$10.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O’Ferrall and her mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of that period alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes. Immensely popular for years, t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Du Maurier, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538808
- Language: English
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She
$9.94 Add to cartDrawing on his knowledge of Africa and of ancient legends, adventure writer H. Rider Haggard weaves this disturbing tale of Ayesha, the mysterious and immortal white queen of a Central African tribe. … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Haggard, H. Rider
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536422
- Language: English
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Shirley
$7.95 Add to cartShirley is Charlotte Bront: e e’s only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, when economic hardship led to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540802
- Language: English
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Cousin Phillis and Other Stories
$11.95 Add to cartElizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of Victorian novelists, yet in her lifetime her shorter fictions were equally well loved, and they are among the most accomplished examples of t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0199239495
- Language: English
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Selected Stories
$12.95 Add to cartThis selection covers the full range of Mansfield’s fiction, from her early satirical stories to the subtly nuanced comedy of ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’ and the macabre and ominous ‘A Married… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Mansfield
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: September 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537356
- Language: English
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Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
$11.95 Add to cartOne of the earliest major American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1760s. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Brown, Charles Brockden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538778
- Language: English
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Treasure Island
$7.95 Add to cartThe discovery of a treasure map sets young Jim Hawkins in search of buried gold, along with a crew of buccaneers recruited by the one-legged Long John Silver. As they near their destination, and the l… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0199560358
- Language: English
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Mary and the Wrongs of Woman
$13.95 Add to cartMary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and opportunities with men. They are expressed here in two novels in which heroines have to rely… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538905
- Language: English
