Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines
$10.95 Add to cartWith the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a sat… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537992
- Language: English
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Babbitt
$10.95 Add to cartAmusing and tragic by turn, Sinclair Lewis’s classic novel is a biting satire of middle-American values whose title has entered the language as a byword for smug complacency, conformity, and materiali… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0199567697
- Language: English
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Seneca: Selected Letters
$13.95 Add to cartSeneca’s letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca’s personal life and the truly turbulent times in which he lived. One of the great Sto… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199533210
- Language: English
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Melmoth the Wanderer
$12.95 Add to cartWritten by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, Melmoth Wanderer brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity. Its tormented villain, a Faustian transgressor d… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Maturin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540292
- Language: English
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Autobiography and Other Writings
$9.94 Add to cartFranklin’s writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry–the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554900
- Language: English
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The History of the English People 1000-1154
$14.95 Add to cartHenry of Huntingdon’s narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the vi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Henry of Huntingdon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554803
- Language: English
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Ivanhoe
$10.95 Add to cartIn Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance at the end of 1819. With the secret return of King Ric… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Scott, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 622
- Publish Date: January 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199538409
- Language: English
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The Comedies
$16.95 Add to cart‘I thought you’d do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son’s having an affair.’
Terence’s comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from cl… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0199556032
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$10.95 Add to cartSir Gawain and the Green Knight is probably the most skillfuly told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two ancient C… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Harrison, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540160
- Language: English
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Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica)
$13.95 Add to cartThe Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Apollonius of Rhodes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538727
- Language: English
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Exemplary Stories
$12.95 Add to cartMore popular in their day than Don Quxixote, Cervantes’s Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, the Exemplary Stories defy the conventi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Decervantes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555001
- Language: English
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
$8.94 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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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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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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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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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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Critique of Judgement
$19.95 Add to cartIn the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552460
- Language: English
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Sayings and Anecdotes: With Other Popular Moralists
$15.95 Add to cartDiogenes the Cynic is famed for walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. His biting wit and eccentric behavior were legendary, and it was by means of his renowned aphori… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Diogenes the Cynic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0199589240
- Language: English
