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• 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 ...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralFor Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect...

• Author(s): Robert Musil • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Classics'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate' Set in a bo...

• Author(s): Emile Zola • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Classics'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.' Nana, daug...

• Author(s): Émile Zola • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Generalb 'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' /b In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gerva...

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

• Author(s): Niccolo Machiavelli • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: World - EuropeanWhen Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously publishe...

• Author(s): Julian of Norwich • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Mysticism'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well' Julian of Norwich is on...

• Author(s): Olaudah Equiano • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: EssaysOlaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative, in which the author describes his birth in Africa, his enslavement an...

• Author(s): Patrick Olivelle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Asian - IndicThe Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for...

• Author(s): Emma Orczy • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Action & AdventureSir Percy Blakeney lives a double life in the England of 1792: at home he is an idle fop and a lead...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. George Or...

• Author(s): Orwell, George • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Veterinary • BISAC: ClassicsThe creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible t...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Alternative History'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.' Nineteen Eighty-Fo...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Europe - SpainAbout the Book Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War. It was the last and most...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Classics'The face was quite unfamiliar to her, and yet not strange. She had not known till this moment what face to exp...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Poverty & HomelessnessIt is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what...

• Author(s): Orwell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshOscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis volume of Keats's powerful poetry follows as closely as possible the chro...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshOscar Wilde's dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Historical - GeneralSince its first publication in 1890, Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, has remai...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshOscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish hi...

• Author(s): Gideon Nisbet • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalLush Diodorus sets the lads on fire, But now another has him in his net -Timarion, the boy with...

• Author(s): Ovid • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalAlan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty ...

• Author(s): OvidA.D Melville E.J Kenney | E.J Kenney • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: EpicMetamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme chan...

• Author(s): W. R. Owens • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Christianity - Literature & the ArtsJesus Christ is the central figure in Western culture, and one of the most influ...

• Author(s): Cyril Edwards • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GermanThe greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of swe...

• Author(s): R. B. Parkinson • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: PoetryDrawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern read...

• Author(s): Patrick Olivelle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsThe Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be tra...

• Author(s): Patrick Olivelle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Hinduism - GeneralIn the first major English translation of the ancient Upanisads for over half a century, Olivelle's ...

• 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): Petronius • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsThe Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first ...

• Author(s): Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - GeneralEighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theater star...

• Author(s): Pindar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThe Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olym...

• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyIn the fifth century BC professional educators, the sophists, travelled the Greek world claiming ...

• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: PoliticalThe Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at...

• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical"Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist." W...

• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThe central work of one of the West's greatest philosophers, The Republic of Plato is a masterpie...

• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: EasternIn his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--i...

• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: LogicOne of Plato's most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuin...

• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: MIXGD • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & MedievalPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of ...

• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ethics & Moral Philosophy'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.' Timaeus, o...

• Author(s): Plautus • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalPlautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors ...

• Author(s): Plutarch • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Historical"I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time...

• Author(s): Plutarch • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient - Rome'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending ...

• Author(s): Edgar Allan Poe • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiterarySince their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established ...

• Author(s): Polybius • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient - RomeHere is the first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius' Histories, the major source for our know...

• Author(s): Prosper Merimee • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsOne of the earliest exponents of the short story, Prosper Mérimée wrote the universally-acclaimed tale Car...

• Author(s): Marcel Proust • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - FrenchSwann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set ...

• Author(s): Jean Baptiste Racine • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - GeneralJean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannic...

• Author(s): Ann Radcliffe • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Romance - GeneralFather Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the...

• Author(s): Rainer Maria Rilke • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - General'An indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself' The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge ...

• Author(s): Woolf Virginia • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralThe ponderous woman looked through the pattern of falling words at the flowers standing cool, firm, and upright in th...

• Author(s): Rene Descartes • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernDescartes' Discourse marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author sets out in ...