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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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Finnegans Wake
$21.95 Add to cartIn Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world history, of ambition and failure, desire and transgression, pri… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 646
- Publish Date: June 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0199695156
- Language: English
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Against Nature: A Rebours
$13.95 Add to cartResisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Huysmans, Joris-Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555117
- Language: English
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
$8.94 Add to cartWhen A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. In his Introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how what began… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540586
- Language: English
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The Marble Faun
$9.95 Add to cartThe fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical g… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554072
- Language: English
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Against Nature: A Rebours
$13.95 Read moreResisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Huysmans, Joris-Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555117
- 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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The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
$12.95 Add to cartDorothy Wordsworth’s journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers. Invaluable for the insight they give into the daily … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wordsworth, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536872
- Language: English
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Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThroughout history scepticism and the urge to question accepted truths has been a powerful force for change and growth. Today, as we are bombarded by adverts, scientific studies praising the latest su… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Pritchard, Duncan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198829167
- Language: English
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The Ladies’ Paradise
$13.95 Add to cartThe Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames), now a TV series called The Paradise based on this classic novel, recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The stor… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536902
- Language: English
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Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDocumentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty’s pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore’s anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov’s artful Soviet pr… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Aufderheide, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0195182707
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction might prove disappointing to those expecting an introduction to a very short man. Dispelling the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte’s short stature, as well as the other rumors an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bell, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0199321663
- Language: English
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Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works
$14.95 Add to cartAlthough utterly convinced of the truth of Christianity, Anselm of Canterbury struggled to make sense of his religion. He considered the doctrines of faith an invitation to question, to think, and to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Anselm, St
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954008X
- Language: English
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Discourses on Livy
$12.95 Add to cartDiscourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555559
- Language: English
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Federalism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEarly Americans were suspicious of centralized authority and executive power. Casting away the yoke of England and its king, the founding fathers shared in this distrust as they set out to pen the Con… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rozell, Mark J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0190900059
- Language: English
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Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra
$9.94 Add to cartThis volume of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid tra… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537178
- Language: English
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Selected Poetry
$11.95 Add to cartThomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birt… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538506
- Language: English
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Oxford Modern English Grammar
$34.99 Add to cartWritten by Bas Aarts, one of Britain’s leading grammarians, Oxford Modern English Grammar is a brand new and definitive guide to English grammar. This indispensable handbook covers both British and Am… [more below]
- Author: Aarts, Bas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0199533199
- Language: English
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Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singu… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Myers, David N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0199730989
- Language: English
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Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This Very Short Introduction discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with. Edward Craig explores important themes in ethics, an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Craig, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019886177X
- Language: English
