Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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The Belly of Paris
$12.95 Add to cartUnjustly deported to Devil’s Island following Louis-Napoleon’s coup-d’?tat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old March? de… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555842
- Language: English
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The Kill: La Curee
$15.95 Add to cartThe Kill (La Cur馥) is the second volume in Zola’s great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris – the capital of modernity – as the centre of Zola’s narrative w… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, Émile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536929
- Language: English
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The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
$14.95 Add to cartAristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the wo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953909X
- Language: English
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The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
$15.95 Add to cartDrawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson’s new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Parkinson, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555621
- Language: English
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
$7.95 Add to cartOf all Jack London’s fictions none have been as popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog’s adventures during the Klondike gold rush, this edi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538891
- Language: English
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Little Women
$8.94 Add to cartThis classic story of the March family women and their lives in New England during the Civil War has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868. Poor, argumentative, loving, and optimis… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538115
- Language: English
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Father and Son
$14.95 Add to cartEdmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, “This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.” Father and Son remains one of English literature… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gosse, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539111
- Language: English
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Aeneid
$15.95 Add to cartFrederick Ahl’s new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Ahl has used a version of Virgil’s ancient hexa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199231958
- Language: English
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The Gallic War
$9.94 Add to cartThe Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540268
- Language: English
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Letters from an American Farmer
$14.95 Add to cartWritten by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: “What, then, is the American, this new man?”, as a new nation took shape b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crèvecoeur, J Hector St John de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554749
- Language: English
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The Histories
$10.95 Add to cart“The father of history,” as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535663
- Language: English
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The Analects
$10.95 Add to cartFew individuals have shaped their country’s civilization more profoundly than the Master Kong, better-known as Confucius (551-479 BC). His sayings and those of his disciples form the foundation of a d… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Confucius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540616
- Language: English
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Gulliver’s Travels
$7.95 Add to cartIn Gulliver’s Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by so… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Swift, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536848
- Language: English
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Much ADO about Nothing: The Oxford Shakespearemuch ADO about Nothing
$10.95 Add to cartSparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies.
This edition offers a newly edited- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536112
- Language: English
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The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartAlexander Pope has often been termed the first true professional poet in English, whose dealings with the book trade helped to produce the literary marketplace of the nineteenth and twentieth centurie… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pope, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537615
- Language: English
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Late Victorian Gothic Tales
$15.95 Add to cartThe Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught n… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Luckhurst, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538875
- Language: English
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The Blithedale Romance
$9.94 Add to cartAbjuring the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America. But the group is a powerful mix of competing ambitions and its idealism finds little satisfaction in … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554862
- Language: English
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The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
$9.94 Add to cartThe Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world’s great religious literature.
Like all religious texts in Pali, the Dham… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Carter, John Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555133
- Language: English
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An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
$16.95 Add to cart‘To a rational being there can be but one rule of conduct, justice, and one mode of ascertaining that rule, the exercise of his understanding.’
Godwin’s Political Justice is the founding text of phil- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Godwin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 01 2013
- ISBN10: 199642621
- Language: English
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Under Western Eyes
$11.95 Add to cartUnder Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrori… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552371
- Language: English
