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• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThis prose translation of the The Odyssey is so successful that is has taken its place as on the few really out...

• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English LiteratureOne of the great epics of western literature, 'The Iliad' recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem vivdly conveys the horror an...

• Author(s): Honoré de Balzac • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsThe first new English translation for more than 35 years of Balzac's extraordinary The Wild Ass's Skin, it is also ...

• Author(s): Horace • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalHorace (65-8 B.C.) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature wh...

• Author(s): Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: HistoryTo my knowledge...no one...has ever written a comprehensive book dealing with physicians through the ages a...

• Author(s): Henrik Johan Ibsen • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - GeneralTaken from the Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes An Enemy of the People, ...

• Author(s): Henrik Johan Ibsen • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GeneralThis translation is based upon the Norwegian text in the Centenary Edition of Ibsen's collected works. ...

• Author(s): Immanuel Kant • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the b...

• Author(s): Ivan Turgenev • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsWhen a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "...

• Author(s): Ivan Turgenev • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsBringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in volume, this collection includes "First Love," "Asya...

• Author(s): James Matthew Barrie • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFor some 20 years at the beginning of the century J M Barrie enjoyed ...

• Author(s): J. Sheridan Le Fanu • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Occult & Supernatural'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...' ...

• Author(s): Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The...

• Author(s): J. W. Von Goethe • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsThis is a new translation of Faust, Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust, Part I was the winn...

• Author(s): J. W. Von Goethe • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - GeneralThis new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe's Faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic...

• Author(s): Harriet Jacobs • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: African American & Black'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can d...

• Author(s): Jalalu'l-Din Rumi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Islam - TheologyRumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divi...

• Author(s): Jalal Al-Din Rumi Jawid Mojaddedi | Jawid Mojaddedi • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: EasternThe most influential Sufi poem ever written, the six books of the Masnavi are often called "the Q...

• Author(s): Jalal Al Rumi • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Islam - SufiRumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called "the Koran...

• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsOne of the most instantly appealing of James's early masterpieces, Washington Square is a tale of a trapped daug...

• Author(s): James Hogg • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryOne of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Jus...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Fantasy - GeneralJames Joyce's Portrait of an Artist is one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth cent...

• Author(s): James Joyce Jeri Johnson | . • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Historical - GeneralI regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliner...

• Author(s): Henry, Jr. James • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsEugenia, an expatriated American, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is about to reject her in ...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsPersuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were endi...

• Author(s): Jane Austen Jane Stabler James Kinsley | Jane Stabler | James Kinsley • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: ClassicsAt the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be...

• Author(s): Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Economics • BISAC: PoliticalRevolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and ...

• Author(s): Jean Jacques Rousseau • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: EssaysRousseau's last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as th...

• Author(s): Jean Jacques Rousseau • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: PoliticalIn his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitabl...

• Author(s): Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralIn his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formativ...

• Author(s): Jerome Klapka Jerome • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsThis volume stands as the only available critical edition of two of the most popular classics in Englis...

• Author(s): Jocelin of Brakelond • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis narrative of events between the years 1173 and 1202--as recorded by Jocelin of Brakelond,...

• Author(s): John Buchan • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: LiteraryIn The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), the best-known of his thrillers (made into a popular movie by Alfred Hitchcock)...

• Author(s): John Donne • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshJohn Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century, a...

• Author(s): John Keats • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis is an entirely new selection of Keats's finest poetry containing all his best know...

• Author(s): John Locke • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Political'Man being born...to perfect freedom...hath by nature a power...to preserve his property, that is, his life, lib...

• Author(s): John L. Locke • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralJohn Locke's classic work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding laid the foundation o...

• Author(s): John Milton • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFrom almost the moment of its publication in 1667, Paradise Lost was considered a clas...

• Author(s): John Wilmot Earl of Rochester • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Classics"If I by miracle can beThis livelong minute true to thee'Tis all that heav'n allows." The Earl...

• Author(s): Samuel Johnson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - Great BritainIn 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Jo...

• Author(s): Samuel Johnson • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsRasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the "happy valley" in order to make their "choice of life...

• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsIn Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just...

• Author(s): Darryl Jones • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Horror - GeneralThe modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as gh...

• Author(s): Gwyn Jones • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these...

• Author(s): Joseph Conrad Jacques Berthoud | Jacques Berthoud • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsLord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--"as unflinching as a h...

• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsMr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mot...

• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsThe finest of all Conrad's tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells o...

• Author(s): Josephus • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Military - AncientIn August of AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a six-month siege. This was ...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should...

• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsAround the World in Eighty Days has been a bestseller for over a century, but it has never before appeared in a critical...

• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsNow available in a new translation, this classic of nineteenth century French literature has been consistently p...

• Author(s): Julius Caesar Carolyn Hammond • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Military - GeneralThe Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an...

• Author(s): Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Literary"After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?" Here is a fine new tr...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ethics & Moral Philosophy'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed hu...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: PhilosophersJohn Stuart Mill (1806-73), philosopher, economist, and political thinker, was the most prominent figur...

• Author(s): Mo Zi • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Eastern'The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm ...

• Author(s): Jean-Baptiste Moliere • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GeneralThis unique volume brings together four of Molière's greatest verse comedies covering the best year...

• Author(s): Thomas More • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: PoliticalWith the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society,...

• Author(s): Arthur Morrison • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsHere is the only critical edition of Arthur Morrison's searing tale of life in the slums of London's East En...

• Author(s): Anthony Mortimer • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & Medieval'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled ...