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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsHard Times--Dickens's shortest novel and one of his triumphs--tells the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her fat...

• Author(s): Charles Perrault • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology"Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!" Charles Perrault's v...

• Author(s): Charlotte Dacre • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GothicFew venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.' This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, ...

• Author(s): Christopher Marlowe • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of...

• Author(s): Cicero • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalMarcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of int...

• Author(s): Cicero • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient - RomeCicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a leading politician of the closing era of the Roma...

• Author(s): Cicero • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralCicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil w...

• Author(s): Cicero • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalCicero wrote On Obligations (De Officiis) in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to prov...

• Author(s): Cicero • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalCicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more genero...

• Author(s): Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSamuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the most versatile minds in...

• Author(s): Colette | Frances Egan | Helen Southworth • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Biographical & AutofictionA new translation into English of The Vagabond by Colette tells the st...

• Author(s): Wilkie Collins • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Classics'The power that I have dreamed of all my life is mine at last!' How far is a mother prepared to go to secure ...

• Author(s): Wilkie Collins • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsWho, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer? One of the great triumphs of ninetee...

• Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: MIXGD • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & Medieval'There's an east wind coming... such a wind as never blew on England yet.' Arthur Conan ...

• Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: MIXGD • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - GeneralIt is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however...

• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsWritten in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad ...

• Author(s): Cornelius Tacitus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - RomeHere is a lively new translation of Cornelius Tacitus' timeless history of three of Rome's most memorable emperors. Tac...

• Author(s): Stephen Crane • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: War & MilitaryOxford offers the most generously annotated edition of The Red Badge of Courage (1895), a vivid psychologica...

• Author(s): Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyThe tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fanta...

• Author(s): Heather O'Donoghue • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsThe finest literary work passed down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, Beowulf celebrates the existence of heroism in...

• Author(s): Kevin Crossley-Holland • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshCrossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--int...

• Author(s): Michael Crudden • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalMost people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer's two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few a...

• Author(s): D. H. Lawrence • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: ClassicsIn Women in Love (1920), Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen who first appeared in Lawrence's earlier novel, The Rainbow, take c...

• Author(s): D. H. Lawrence • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsLawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from t...

• Author(s): Stephanie Dalley • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThe ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 year...

• Author(s): Anthony Hope • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Classics'If love were the only thing, I would follow you-in rags if need be ... But is love the only thing?' Anthony Hop...

• Author(s): Daniel Defoe • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Biographical & AutofictionDaniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ens...

• Author(s): Dante Alighieri • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - ItalianThis single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's...

• Author(s): Dante Alighieri • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - GeneralVita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as Dante's most profound creation. The thirty-one poems in this, ...

• Author(s): David Hume • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: EpistemologyDavid Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher i...

• Author(s): David Hume • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the acad...

• Author(s): Sioned Davies • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyCeltic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of Briti...

• Author(s): Thomas de Quincey • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe titular essay in this volume of work by Thomas De Quincey centers on the notori...

• Author(s): Daniel Defoe • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryA tour-de-force of writing by Daniel Defoe, this extraordinary novel tells the vivid and racy tale of a woman's experie...

• Author(s): Demosthenes • Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press (UK) • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & Medieval'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admir...

• Author(s): Denis Diderot • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsJacques the Fatalist is a provocative exploration of the problems of human existence, destiny, and free will. ...

• Author(s): Rene Descartes • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modern'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetn...

• Author(s): Dickens • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Fantasy - GeneralAt the height of his career, around the time he was working on Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, Charles Di...

• Author(s): Diogenes • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalDiogenes the Cynic is famed for walking the streets with a lamp in daylight,...

• Author(s): Mallanaga Vatsyayana • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Sexual InstructionThe Kamasutra is the oldest extant textbook of erotic love. But it is more than a book about sex. It ...

• Author(s): Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced fr...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Crime"One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!" A new translation of Dostoevsky's e...

• Author(s): Frederick Douglass • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Cultural & Regional"I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any aut...

• Author(s): Edgar Allan Poe • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror ficti...

• Author(s): Maria Edgeworth • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: LiteraryWith her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and i...

• Author(s): Tim Kendall • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent. Its poets mark t...

• Author(s): Michael Newton • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon......

• Author(s): Edited By Russell & Winterbottom • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThis excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Arist...

• Author(s): Edward Bellamy • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: PoliticalJulian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wak...

• Author(s): Edward Fitzgerald, Daniel Karlin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Middle EasternIn 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or "rubáiyá...

• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFalsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge...

• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsFirst published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859, "The Lifted Veil" is now one of George Eliot's most widely rea...

• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Classics'Was her life to be always like this? - always bringing some new source of inward strife?' When the miller Mr T...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Barrett Browning • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and ...

• Author(s): Emile Durkheim • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionIn The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discov...

• Author(s): Emile Zola • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsUnjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and r...

• Author(s): Emile Zola • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsThe Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames), now a TV series called The Paradise based on this classic novel, recounts the...

• Author(s): Émile Zola Thomas Walton Roger Pearson • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: ClassicsThe Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come fr...

• Author(s): Epictetus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus' Di...

• Author(s): Eratosthenes • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & Medieval"Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very po...