Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
$17.95 Add to cartA classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literatur… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Frazer, James George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 199538824
- Language: English
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Aurora Leigh
$13.95 Add to cartAurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century, is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth century poem of contemporary life. It is an a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199552339
- Language: English
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
$10.95 Add to cartIn 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or “rub?iy?t”) of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayy?m. If not a true translation–his Omar seems to have read Shakespea… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Fitzgerald, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199580502
- Language: English
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The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
$8.95 Add to cartThis unique volume brings together four of Moli?e’s greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career. Actor, director, and playwright, Moli?e (1622-73) was one of the fin… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Moli?re
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540187
- Language: English
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Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold
$10.95 Add to cartPlautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and Moliere’s the Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus h… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plautus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954056X
- Language: English
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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
$9.94 Add to cartJohn Polidori’s classic tale “The Vampyre”(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of myster… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Polidori, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019955241X
- Language: English
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The Last Man
$13.95 Add to cartA futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley’s most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Per… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199552355
- Language: English
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The Merchant of Venice: The Oxford Shakespearethe Merchant of Venice
$10.95 Read moreThis edition of The Merchant of Venice, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, includes an exceptionally lucid and accessible introduction which addresses Shakespeare’s attitude toward Se… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019953585X
- Language: English
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The Voyage Out
$12.99 Add to cartIn The Voyage Out, one of Woolf’s wittiest, socially satirical novels, Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father’s ship, and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 30 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539308
- Language: English
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Three Major Plays: Fuente Ovejuna/The Kight from Olmedo/Punishment Without Revenge
$14.95 Add to cartLope de Vega (1562-1635), widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, created plots and characters notable for their energy, inventiveness, and dramatic power. This unique… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: De Vega, Lope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540179
- Language: English
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The Vicar of Wakefield
$8.95 Add to cartOliver Goldsmith’s hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primros… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Goldsmith, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537542
- Language: English
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Lives of the Caesars
$13.95 Add to cartThe Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domit… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Suetonius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 199537569
- Language: English
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The Satires
$11.95 Add to cartCommonly considered the greatest of Roman satirical poets, Juvenal is the author of sixteen satires of Roman society, notable for their pessimism and ironic humor. In this new translation of the Satir… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Juvenal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540667
- Language: English
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The Jungle Books
$8.94 Add to cartThe Jungle Books, regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children and best known for the “Mowgli” series, also constitutes a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling’s phil… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536457
- Language: English
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Samuel Johnson: The Major Works
$16.95 Add to cartSamuel Johnson’s literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Johnson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538336
- Language: English
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Moll Flanders
$10.95 Add to cartA tour-de-force of writing by Daniel Defoe, this extraordinary novel tells the vivid and racy tale of a woman’s experience in the seamy side of life in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century E… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0192805355
- Language: English
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The Nature of the Gods
$13.95 Add to cartCicero’s philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because they provide vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540063
- Language: English
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Tales of the Elders of Ireland
$14.95 Add to cartTales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Sen?ach, the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland. It contains the earliest… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dooley, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549850
- Language: English
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Outlines of the Philosophy of Right
$19.95 Add to cartHegel’s Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. It contains significant ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family life, econom… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0192806106
- Language: English
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Notebooks
$12.95 Add to cartMost of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist’s eye an… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Leonardo Da Vinci
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0199299021
- Language: English
