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• 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): Emile Zola • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsZola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France ...

• 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...

• Author(s): Euripides • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalEuripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked b...

• Author(s): Euripides • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThis volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, ...

• Author(s): Euripides • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalOrestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant W...

• Author(s): Euripides • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThe four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia ...

• Author(s): Euripides • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalEuripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betraya...

• Author(s): F. Petrarch • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - ItalianThis entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Po...

• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: General'The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the sc...

• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)'Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.' F. Scott Fitzgerald's first stor...

• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Classics"He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself...

• Author(s): Federico Garcia Lorca • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GeneralIn his four last plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dona Rosita the Spinster) ...

• Author(s): Gustave Flaubert • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Classics'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse of Mad...

• Author(s): Ford Madox Ford • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: War & MilitaryThe Good Soldier is Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, a riveting story and one of the most compelling...

• Author(s): Francois De La Rochefoucauld • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: General Books • BISAC: European - FrenchDeceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of...

• Author(s): Frances Burney • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: ClassicsFrances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the p...

• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsKafka's last novel, The Castle is set in a remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle a...

• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)It is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: "When Gregor Samsa woke o...

• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsEntering New York harbor, the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty, "her arm with the sword ...

• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryOne of the great works of the twentieth century, Kafka's The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessim...

• Author(s): James George Frazer • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Comparative ReligionA classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic a...

• Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralOn the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about interpretation and the history ...

• Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: AestheticsIn The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche expounds on the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the Germa...

• Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modernhus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Ni...

• Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche, Marion Faber, Robert C. Holub • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyNietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil co...

• Author(s): Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: PhilosophersEcce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the c...

• Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsThe Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsDostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a p...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Russian & SovietOne of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from th...

• Author(s): Matthew Arnold • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: EssaysMatthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and A...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsA vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gask...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralSet in Manchester in the 1840s, Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon t...

• Author(s): Simon Gaunt • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - FrenchCharles the king, our emperor great, Has been a full seven years in Spain.As far as the sea he conquered this h...

• Author(s): John Gay • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh"Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are v...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Chaucer • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBeyond all doubt the greatest work of English literature before Shakespeare, Chau...

• Author(s): George Gordon Lord Byron • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis authoritative edition brings together the complete collection of Byr...

• Author(s): George Gissing • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Psychological'Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.' Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon h...

• Author(s): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsElective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary ...

• Author(s): Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Family Life - GeneralThe Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774...

• Author(s): Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Horror & SupernaturalBy the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutte...

• Author(s): Gustave Flaubert • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsThis collection of three tales, "A Simple Heart," "Saint Julian," and "Herodias" offers an excellent introd...

• Author(s): Gustave Flaubert • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsOne of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers aroun...

• Author(s): Guy de Maupassant • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Action & AdventureMaupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges ...

• Author(s): H. Rider Haggard • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsDrawing on his knowledge of Africa and of ancient legends, adventure writer H. Rider Haggard weaves this di...

• Author(s): H. Rider Haggard • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Classics'Don't you see that we are buried alive?' When Allan Quatermain is approached by Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Ca...

• Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Classics"Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me." With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-y...

• Author(s): Henrik Ibsen • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GeneralTaken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghost...

• Author(s): Henry Fielding • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsHenry Fielding wrote both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) in response to Samuel Richardson's book Pa...

• Author(s): Henry, Jr. James • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryMrs. Gereth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d'art from her ...

• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: ClassicsWhether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of se...

• Author(s): Henry Of Huntingdon • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Europe - MedievalHenry of Huntingdon's narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its af...

• Author(s): Herodotus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Ancient - Greece"The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormo...

• Author(s): Hesiod • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThis new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with rea...

• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsWar, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2,700 years, the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achi...

• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & MedievalTwenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to ...