Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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Daisy Miller and an International Episode
$11.95 Add to cart“An inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence”
This unique edition reunites two tales which James intended to be complementary –“Daisy Miller” and “An International Episode.” Young Daisy Mill- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0199639884
- Language: English
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Castle Rackrent
$13.95 Add to cartWith her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley (1814). Politically risky, stylistically innov… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Edgeworth, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537550
- Language: English
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The American Senator
$11.95 Add to cartArabella Trefoil, the beautiful anti-heroine of this novel, inspired Trollope to write of her, “I wished to express the depth of my scorn for women who run down husbands.” Arabella’s determination to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537631
- Language: English
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
$10.95 Add to cartEdgar Allan Poe’s only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth. It is a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540470
- Language: English
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The Antiquary
$15.95 Add to cartThe Antiquary, Scott’s personal favorite among his novels, is characteristically wry and urbane. A mysterious young man calling himself ‘Lovel’ travels idly but fatefully toward the Scottish seaside t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Scott, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555710
- Language: English
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Under the Greenwood Tree
$11.95 Add to cart“Miss Fancy Day; as neat a little figure of fun as ever I see, and just husband-high.”
One of the most popular of Hardy’s novels, Under the Greenwood Tree is a delightful and humorous depiction of lif- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0199697205
- Language: English
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
$11.95 Add to cartElfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of hi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538492
- Language: English
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Ruth
$10.95 Add to cartElizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth (1853) was the first mainstream novel to make a fallen woman its eponymous heroine. It is a remarkable story of love, of the sanctuary and tyranny of the family, and of the co… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0199581959
- Language: English
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The Odd Women
$14.95 Add to cartA novel of social realism, The Odd Women reflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Unlike the “New Woman” novels of the era which challenged the idea that the unmar… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gissing, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199538301
- Language: English
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The Civil War
$11.95 Add to cartThe Civil War is Caesar’s masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey’s death and the start of the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540624
- Language: English
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The History of King Lear: The Oxford Shakespearethe History of King Lear
$10.95 Add to cartKing Lear, widely considered Shakespeare’s most deeply moving, passionately expressed, and intellectually ambitious play, has almost always been edited from the revised version printed in the First Fo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535825
- Language: English
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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
$16.95 Add to cartEmpire Writing is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Boehmer, Elleke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555591
- Language: English
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Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney’s poetry and prose–all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies–that reveals the essence of his work and think… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sidney, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538417
- Language: English
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Phaedrus
$10.95 Add to cartPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554021
- 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
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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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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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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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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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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
