Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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Collected Poems
$13.95 Add to cartRimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rimbaud, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199538956
- Language: English
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Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs
$15.95 Add to cart“The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love.” So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard’s Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous narrator, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199214190
- Language: English
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The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records
$14.95 Add to cart“The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.”
The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that laste- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Qian, Sima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199574391
- Language: English
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‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore and Other Plays: The Lover’s Melancholy; The Broken Heart; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore; Perkin Warbeck
$12.95 Add to cartFord wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection of four plays also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Ford, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553866
- Language: English
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All’s Well That Ends Well: The Oxford Shakespeare
$10.95 Add to cartUsually classified as a “problem comedy,” All’s Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her int… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537127
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Plassans
$14.95 Add to cart‘Abbe Faujas has arrived!’
The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Fran?is Mouret in particular. Faujas and his- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199664781
- Language: English
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Greek Lyric Poetry
$13.95 Add to cartThe Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.–greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides–produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. Their poetry was … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: West, M. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954039X
- Language: English
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
$14.95 Add to cartIn The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigates what he considered to be the simples… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Durkheim, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540128
- Language: English
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
$11.95 Add to cartThrough his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pater, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199535078
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems
$12.95 Add to cart“A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.” E. M. Forster’s famous description of C. P. Cavafy–the most widely known and best loved modern Gr… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cavafy, C. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555958
- Language: English
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John Keats: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats’s poetry and … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554889
- Language: English
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Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies
$11.95 Add to cartGrace Abounding (1666) is a classic work of spiritual autobiography–a genre which flourished in Calvinist England as anxiety over the state or destiny of one’s soul led to rigorous self-scrutiny and … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Bunyan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199554986
- Language: English
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Troilus and Cressida: The Oxford Shakespeare
$10.95 Read moreGiven the wealth of formal debate contained in this tragedy, Troilus and Cressida was probably written in 1602 for a performance at one of the Inns of the Court. Shakespeare’s treatment of the age-old… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536538
- Language: English
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Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
$16.95 Add to cartThis engaging volume was pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s most popular book during her lifetime. Difficult to categorize, it is both an arresting travel book and a moving exploration of her p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199230633
- Language: English
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Anthony and Cleopatra: The Oxford Shakespeareanthony and Cleopatra
$10.95 Add to cartNow available in beautiful World’s Classics editions–with handsome, four-color covers and new low prices–The Oxford Shakespeare offers new and authoritative edions of Shakespeare’s plays. In each vo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535787
- Language: English
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Capital
$16.95 Add to cartA classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has proved to be the most influen… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535701
- Language: English
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Propertius: The Poems
$12.95 Add to cartOf all the great classical love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for readers today. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cy… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Propertius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555923
- Language: English
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York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling
$14.95 Add to cartThe York Corpus Christi cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection of twenty-two pageants offered in this volume. Included… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Beadle, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552533
- Language: English
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The Rover and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartAphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remar… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Behn, Aphra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540209
- Language: English
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Danton’s Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck
$13.95 Add to cartThis collection of B?hner’s three theatrical works includes Danton’s Death, his great play about the French Revolution, Leonce and Lena, his “black” romantic comedy and Woyzeck, the unfinished work on… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: B?chner, Georg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540357
- Language: English
