Oxford World's Classics
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Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction
$8.95 Add to cart‘The ponderous woman looked through the pattern of falling words at the flowers standing cool, firm, and upright in the earth, with a curious expression. . .So heavy the woman came to a standstill opp… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 198838131
- Language: English
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Sanditon
$5.95 Add to cart‘no person could be really well . . . without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year’
In Sanditon, Jane Austen writes what may well be the first seaside novel: a novel, that is, that explor- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198840837
- Language: English
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Uncle Silas
$13.95 Add to cart‘The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.’
In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at the claustrophobic Bart… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Le Fanu, Sheridan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0198864353
- Language: English
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The Small House at Allington
$15.95 Add to cart‘She had resolved to trust in everything, and, having so trusted, she would not provide for herself any possibility of retreat.’
Lively and attractive, Lily Dale lives with her mother and sister at th- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199662770
- Language: English
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The End of the Tether: And Other Stories
$12.95 Add to cart‘(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths’
– B… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0192896822
- Language: English
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The Poems of Catullus
$13.95 Add to cartOf all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal tone exerts a powerful … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Catullus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537577
- Language: English
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The Masnavi, Book Five
$12.95 Add to cart‘If something else can capture your attention
This is the first ever
Then it’s not love, but just a trivial passion –
Love is that flame which, once it blazes up,
Burns everything but the Beloved up.’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2022
- ISBN10: 019285707X
- Language: English
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Jacob’s Room
$9.99 Add to cart‘What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages — oh, here is Jacob’s room.’
Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf’s third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0192857398
- Language: English
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Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales; Marriage; The Government Inspector
$10.95 Add to cartThis volume brings together Gogol’s Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555060
- Language: English
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Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson
$12.95 Add to cartThe modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horror, co… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jones, Darryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0199685444
- Language: English
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
$8.94 Add to cartFalsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. Like a spider from a fairy-tale, Silas fills f… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0198724640
- Language: English
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The Art of Rhetoric
$14.95 Add to cartFor all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies…
Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of the subject, and it remains among the most incisive work- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2018
- ISBN10: 019872425X
- Language: English
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Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
$12.95 Add to cart[T]he present groundwork is nothing more than the identification and vindication of the supreme principle of morality.’
In the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Immanuel Kant makes clea- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198786190
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus
$14.95 Add to cartOedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. I- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0192806858
- Language: English
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The Assommoir
$11.95 Add to cartb ‘in this life, even if you don’t ask for much you still end up with bugger all!’ /b
In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a p- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 019882856X
- Language: English
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Francis Bacon: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon’s writing–the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available–that reveals the essence of … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Bacon, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540799
- Language: English
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The Jewish War
$15.95 Add to cartIn August of AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a six-month siege. This was the disastrous outcome of a Jewish revolt against Roman domination which began in AD 66 with so… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Josephus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0199646023
- Language: English
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Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology
$15.95 Add to cartThe First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent. Its poets mark the conflict in ways that are both intensely personal and as enduring as any monument. Their lines have come to… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Kendall, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0198703201
- Language: English
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Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon: Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings
$8.94 Add to cart‘I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others-of resigning my own judgement in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect.’
The unfinished fictions collecte- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198835892
- Language: English
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The Mill on the Floss
$10.95 Add to cart‘Was her life to be always like this? – always bringing some new source of inward strife?’
When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes entangled in lawsuits, he sets off a chain of events that will profoundly- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198707533
- Language: English
