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Oxford World s Classics Shirley (Paperback)

Shirley is Charlotte Bront: e e s only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest it is set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars when economic hardship led to riots in the woollen district of Yorkshire. A... more

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Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies: William Barksted and Lewis Machin: The Insatiate Countess; Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: The Maid's Tragedy; Thomas ... of Valentinian (Oxford World's Classics)

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Oxford World s Classics Phaedrus (Paperback)

Phaedrus 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 homoerotic love. Socrates reveals it to be a kind of divine... more

Oxford World s Classics Idylls (Paperback)

A key figure in the development of Western literature the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse was the inventor of bucolic or pastoral poetry in the first half of the third century BC. These vignettes of country life which center on competitions of song... more

Pre-Owned Heart of Darkness and Other Tales n/e (Oxford World s Classics) Paperback

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Oxford World s Classics The Queen of Spades and Other Stories (Paperback)

This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin s best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world s greatest short stories in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are... more

Oxford World s Classics Babbitt (Paperback)

Amusing 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 materialism and whose suburban targets are still much in... more

Oxford World s Classics Bel-Ami (Paperback)

Maupassant s second novel Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy christened Bel-Ami by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It is a novel about money sex and power set against the... more

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Oxford World s Classics The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is now best remembered for its concluding story in which the great detective appears to plunge to his death into the waters at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls locked in a... more

Oxford World s Classics Confessions (Paperback)

In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris to his wanderings as an exile... more

Oxford World s Classics David Copperfield (Paperback)

One of Dickens s best-loved and most personal novels David Copperfield is the embodiment of Dickens s own boyhood experience recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse. This edition which has the accurate Clarendon text includes Dickens... more

Oxford World s Classics The Extraordinary Journeys: Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Paperback)

Now available in a new translation this classic of nineteenth century French literature has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel travel across Iceland and then down through an... more

Oxford World s Classics Manon Lescaut (Paperback)

The sweetness of her glance or rather my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin did not allow me to hesitate for a moment. So begins the story of Manon Lescaut a tale of passion and betrayal of delinquency and misalliance which... more

Oxford World s Classics What Maisie Knew (Paperback)

What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James s finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern... more

Oxford World s Classics Daodejing (Paperback)

Of ways you may speak / but not the Perennial Way; / By names you may name / but not the Perennial Name. So begins the best-loved of all the classical books of China and the most universally popular the Daodejing or Classic of the Way and Life-Force.... more

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Oxford World s Classics The Riddle of the Sands (Paperback)

One of the first great spy novels The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. Bored with his life in London a young man accepts an invitation to join a friend on a sailing holiday in the North Sea.... more

Oxford World s Classics The Dawn of the Roman Empire (Paperback)

With a single announcement from a herald all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambitious project only phenomenal valour and fortune bring it to fruition. Thus Livy describes the reaction to... more

Pre-Owned Jane Eyre : Oxford World Classics 9780517606100

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Oxford World s Classics The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (Paperback)

Brisk capable humorous highly opinionated and frequently ironic The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook opens a fascinating window on the day-to-day life of the British in India in the late nineteenth century. Steel and Gardiner s mission to uphold... more

Oxford World s Classics The Mayor of Casterbridge (Paperback)

Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author s unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives. Michael... more

Oxford World s Classics Mrs Beeton s Book of Household Management (Paperback)

An almost forgotten classic though a founding text of Victorian middle-class identity Mrs. Beeton s Book of Household Management is a volume of insight and common sense. Written by what one might now describe as a Victorian Martha Stewart the book... more

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Pre-Owned Catiline s Conspiracy The Jugurthine War Histories (Oxford World s Classics) Paperback

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Oxford World s Classics Phineas Finn (Paperback)

The second novel in Trollope s Palliser series Phineas Finn s engaging plot embraces matters as diverse as reform the position of women the Irish question and the conflict between integrity and ambition. Through the engaging figure of the handsome... more

Pre-Owned The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Oxford World s Classics) Paperback

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Oxford World s Classics The Wendigo and Other Stories (Paperback)

See!...The woods are alive! Already the Great Ones are there and the dance will soon begin! The salve is here! Anoint yourself and come! One of the greatest writers of the strange and weird Algernon Blackwood evolved from a teller of ghost stories to a... more

Oxford World s Classics Phaedo (Paperback)

The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato s masterpieces showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements... more

Oxford World s Classics Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Paperback)

Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Senórach the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland. It contains the earliest and most comprehensive collection of Fenian... more

Pre-Owned The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories (Oxford World s Classics) Paperback

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Oxford World s Classics The Woodlanders (Paperback)

Love and the erratic heart are at the center of Hardy s woodland story. Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne whose love for the well-to-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of the... more

Oxford World s Classics Barnaby Rudge (Paperback)

Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain and set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots Dickens s brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century explores the relationship between repression and liberation... more

Oxford World s Classics Germinal (Paperback)

Zola s masterpiece of working life Germinal (1885) exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola s death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which... more

Oxford World s Classics The Peloponnesian War (Paperback)

The greatest historian that ever lived. Such was Macaulay s assessment of Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC... more

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