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• Author(s): Emile Zola • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsHelene Grandjean, an attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her only child, Jeanne. Jeanne i...

• Author(s): Adam Smith • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Government & BusinessWhile it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire e...

• Author(s): Aeschylus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThe Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Beare...

• Author(s): Aesop • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Fairy Tales & Folklore - GeneralThe fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ev...

• Author(s): Alain-Fournier | Frank Davison | Adam Watt • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: ClassicsAlain-Fournier's lyrical novel captures the painful transition from adolescence to adulthoo...

• Author(s): Anne Bronte • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsCombining a sensational story of a man's physical and moral decline through alcohol, a study of marital breakdow...

• Author(s): Anthony Trollope • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyTrollope singled out Orley Farm for its successful combination of realistic and sensational ef...

• Author(s): Anthony Trollope • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh'I hated the office. I hated my work...the only career in life within my ...

• Author(s): Anton Chekhov • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GeneralChekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, T...

• Author(s): Anton Pavlovich Chekhov • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsRaymond Carver called Anton Chekhov "the greatest short story writer who has ever lived." This unequ...

• Author(s): Guillaume Apollinaire • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - French'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world' Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the m...

• Author(s): Apollodorus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralThe only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek myth...

• Author(s): Apollonius of Rhodes • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThe Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his rel...

• Author(s): Aristophanes • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThis new verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies offers one of the world's great comic dramatists in...

• Author(s): Aristophanes • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalAristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of fest...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: General"What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?" Aristotle's Poetics is the most infl...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Speech & PronunciationFor all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies... Aristotle's Art of...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalA major treatise on moral philosophy by Aristotle, this is the first time the ...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical"...the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul..." What is the natu...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyA student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is one of the towering figures in ...

• Author(s): Aristotle, Ernest Barker, R. F. Stalley • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: PoliticalThe Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political though...

• Author(s): Aristotle Robin Waterfield David Bostock | Robin Waterfield | David Bostock • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Physics - GeneralFor many centuries, Aristotle's Physics wa...

• Author(s): Martin Hammond • Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press (UK) • BISAC: Ancient - Greece"He was a man like no other man has ever been" In twelve years that changed the world, Alexander the ...

• Author(s): Artemidorus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Ancient and Classical'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source' Artemidorus' The Interp...

• Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: ClassicsThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in ...

• Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe Koran is a book apart, not only as Holy Scripture for Muslims, but as the supreme classic of Arabic literature. In its 114 Suras, or chapters, it compris...

• Author(s): Marcus Aurelius • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: MemoirsThe Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is one of the best-known and most popular works of ancient philosophy, offering spiritual ref...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Classics"He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention." Pride and Prejudice, one of the most famous...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Literary FiguresIn one of her personal letters, Jane Austen wrote "Little Matters they are to be sure, but highly important." In...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsThree notebooks of Jane Austen's early writings survive. The pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the ...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: General'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively...

• Author(s): Honore De Balzac • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Biographical & AutofictionThis fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an imp...

• Author(s): Honore De Balzac • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsSexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them are the dominant themes...

• Author(s): Richard Beadle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe York Corpus Christi cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery c...

• Author(s): Aphra Behn • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her ach...

• Author(s): Aphra Behn • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsThe most complete collection of the work of Aphra Behn (1640-89) available, this volume contains Oroonoko and five other ...

• Author(s): Ben Jonson • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw | Matthew Yde • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Music, Theatre & FilmsAbout the Book The four dramas in this volume are some of George Bernard Shaw's most interesting plays. They...

• Author(s): Blaise Pascal • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralFor much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never publishe...

• Author(s): William Blake • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh"To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity...

• Author(s): Boethius • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: ReligiousBoethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on...

• Author(s): Booker T. Washington • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature

• Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: GothicWhen beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future loo...

• Author(s): Maria Edgeworth • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Classics'It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have s...

• Author(s): Emily Brontë • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Literary'You said I killed you - haunt me, then!' Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English langu...

• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Classics"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with...

• Author(s): John Bunyan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Action & AdventureThe Pilgrim's Progress has inspired readers for over three centuries. It is one of the best-loved and most...

• Author(s): Burke Edited By Paul Guyer • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: AestheticsPain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.'In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses...

• Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsAn orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, an...

• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Literary"I am going to sink it.""You are not!""I am," he coldly replied. "Do not take it on yourself to judge me, monsieur." Fre...

• Author(s): Carl Von Clausewitz Beatrice Heuser Michael Howard Peter Paret | Beatrice Heuser | Michael Howard • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Military ScienceWar is merely th...

• Author(s): Carlo Collodi • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsThe story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has be...

• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Classics'The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts' The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in Engl...

• Author(s): Willa Cather • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Westerns - GeneralMy Antonia is a classic tale of pioneer life in the American Midwest. The novel details daily life in...

• Author(s): Catullus • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & MedievalOf all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader....

• Author(s): Margaret Cavendish | Lisa Walters • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Women Authors'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish sec...

• Author(s): Charles Baudelaire, James N Mcgowan, Jonathan Culler • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - FrenchThe Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of m...

• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionIn The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of t...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsDickens' second historical novel, which he considered "the best story I have written," provides a highly-charged exa...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsOliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel cond...