WBF - OWC

• Author(s): Virgil • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English LiteratureThe Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidu...

• Author(s): Virgil • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalFrederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English LiteratureThis novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life. Virginia Woolf is direct and vivid in her ac...

• Author(s): William Wordsworth • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Classics'Listen, Stranger!' Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as th...

• Author(s): Emile Zola • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Christian - Romance - GeneralIs it wrong to love whatever is beautiful and rich? I love it precisely because it is beauti...

• Author(s): Aemile Zola • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - French"I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path." Serge ...

• Author(s): Emile Zola • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsThe Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we learn how the two bra...

• Author(s): Émile Zola • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Action & AdventureAbout the Book "There's something of everything there, the best and the worst, the vulgar and the sublime, ...

• Author(s): Emile Zola • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Classics'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.' Aristide ...

• Author(s): Emile Zola • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Political'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.' His Excellency Eugène Rou...

• Author(s): Emile Zola • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureOrphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with h...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University PressThis selection brings together 30 of Virginia Woolf's best essays across a wide range of subjects including writing and reading, the role...

• Author(s): Woolf • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Classics'I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all through it' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summ...

• Author(s): W. B. Yeats • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshA unique selection of Yeats's major poems, plays, criticism and other prose wr...

• Author(s): W. J. Johnson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Hinduism - Sacred WritingsThe Bhagavad Gita is the most widely read Hindu religious text in the Western world and a key work for un...

• Author(s): Philip Meadows Taylor • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: General'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts' Often overshadowed by Kipli...

• Author(s): Horace Walpole • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Classics'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the firs...

• Author(s): Walter Bagehot • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ConstitutionsWalter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1867) is the best account of the history and workings of the British ...

• Author(s): Walter Pater • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Movements - RenaissanceThrough his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and ...

• Author(s): Walter Scott • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryIn Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever ...

• Author(s): Walter Scott • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Historical - General"The most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact." Ed...

• Author(s): Diodorus Siculus • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceStarting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in Europe The G...

• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Science Fiction - Alien ContactOne of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of th...

• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Science Fiction - GeneralA shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island, the guest of a notorious s...

• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsAt the village of Lympne, on the south coast of England, the "most uneventful place in the world" the failed pla...

• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsAt a Victorian dinner party in Richmond, London, the Time Traveler returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's f...

• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Horror - GeneralOne night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clo...

• Author(s): Edith Wharton • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Classics'Can't you see that I don't care what anybody says?' Charity Royall lives in the small New England village of North D...

• Author(s): Edith Wharton • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsSet against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and d...

• Author(s): Edith Wharton • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsSince its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observ...

• Author(s): Gilbert White • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: General'I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.' Gilbert Wh...

• Author(s): Willa Cather • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsO Pioneers!, Willa Cather's second novel, tells the story of an immigrant family's struggle to save their Nebra...

• Author(s): William Beckford • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Gothic"Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that whic...

• Author(s): William Godwin • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Classics'To a rational being there can be but one rule of conduct, justice, and one mode of ascertaining that rule, t...

• Author(s): William Godwin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryIn William Godwin's dark psychological novel of paranoia and persecution, the eponymous hero is a guileless young ser...

• Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsFirst published in 1844, this is Thackeray's earliest substantial work of fiction and perhaps his most o...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ShakespeareDuring Shakespeare's lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still tow...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareKing Lear, widely considered Shakespeare's most deeply moving, passionately expressed, and intellectually amb...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareThe introduction includes an examination of the Quarto and texts, and of the relationship between them; a cri...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ShakespeareThe Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most fully realized tragicomedy, noted for the richness and comple...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ShakespeareWith its witty heroine Rosalind, who has the longest role of Shakespeare's female characters, As You ...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: ShakespeareThe most famous of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Julius Caesar was written and first performed in 1599, and wa...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ShakespeareA Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's shortest play yet one of his most popular comedies. Here is a new...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareOne of Shakespeare's most rollicking and beloved comedies, The Taming of the Shrew was also one of his earlie...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareThis edition of The Merchant of Venice, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, includes an excep...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareAlong with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What disting...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareSparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespear...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareThis Oxford Shakespeare edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely d...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareThis is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years. One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeli...

• Author(s): William Wordsworth • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshWilliam Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-lov...

• Author(s): William Wordsworth • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshWilliam Wordsworth (1770-1850) is one of the most important and enduringly popu...

• Author(s): Mary Wollstonecraft • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: GeneralThis engaging volume was pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime....

• Author(s): Mary Wollstonecraft • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: EssaysThis volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature'I lay in the garden and red the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Lif...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English LiteratureIn these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challe...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English LiteratureTracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. Separately and to...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Literary'I feel the need of an escapade after these serious poetic experimental books...I want to kick up my heels & be o...