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• Author(s): Rene Descartes • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernHere is a brilliant new translation of Descartes's Meditations, one of the most influentia...

• Author(s): Richard Brinsley Sheridan • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshRichly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intrica...

• Author(s): Samuel Richardson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsOne of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela...

• Author(s): Rainer Maria Rilke • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralRilke is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the great twentieth-century lyric poets in Ger...

• Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsIn South Sea Tales Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles. But beyond their gen...

• Author(s): Robert Tressell • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsTressell's novel is about survival on the underside of the Edwardian Twilight, about exploitative employment...

• Author(s): Robin Waterfield • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalAristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Wester...

• Author(s): Radclyffe Hall • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: General'If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.' The Well of Lone...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Action & AdventureKim, one of Kipling's masterpieces, is the story of Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an off...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling Louis L. Cornell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsArranged in the order of their original publication and written during Kipling's time as a journali...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: GeneralThe Jungle Books, regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children and best known for the "Mowgli" s...

• Author(s): Jalal Al Rumi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: ClassicsRumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consi...

• Author(s): Jalal Al-Din Rumi | Jawid Mojaddedi • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Middle Eastern'Until effaced no one can actuallyEnter the Court of Holy Majesty.What is the meaning of the...

• Author(s): The Marquis De Sade • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsThis is the first new translation in over forty years of Sade's novel Justine. It is also the first ever critica...

• Author(s): Saint Augustine • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ReligiousIn his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps t...

• Author(s): Sallust • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient - RomeSallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint sharp-edged...

• Author(s): Rosemary Salomone • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyA sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of language Spoken by a quarter of the...

• Author(s): Santideva • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Buddhism - General (see also Philosophy - Buddhist)Written in India in the early 8th century AD, 'S=antideva's Bodhicary=avat...

• Author(s): Olive Schreiner • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsThis pioneering work was a cause celebre when it appeared in London, transforming the shape and course of th...

• Author(s): Seneca Emily Wilson | Emily Wilson • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalHere is a lively, readable, and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the mos...

• Author(s): Seneca • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalAlain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy--later made into a six-part TV series--has h...

• Author(s): Anna Sewell • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: ClassicsNow a classic of children's literature, though not originally published for children, this new edition of Anna Sewell's fa...

• Author(s): Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareTwelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places partic...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ShakespeareWritten in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon, marking the transi...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: RenaissanceFour centuries after its publication in the Folio, As You Like It's capacity to entertain and instruct remains evergreen. This edition prov...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: RenaissanceCan one life be measured against another? Can a woman's body be measured against a man's life? Can consensual...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: RenaissancePerformed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare'...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: RenaissanceThis edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: RenaissanceThe Merry Wives of Windsor is the only Shakespeare play named entirely after female characters and his only c...

• Author(s): Shakespeare: The Tempest Owc: Pb • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: ShakespearePerformed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the ...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Essays

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press

• Author(s): Sherwood Anderson • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsWinesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a s...

• Author(s): Philip Sidney • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney's ...

• Author(s): Sigmund Freud • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Classics"I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora's nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual sit...

• Author(s): Juvenal • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalCommonly considered the greatest of Roman satirical poets, Juvenal is the author of sixteen satires o...

• Author(s): Kalidasa, W.J.Johnson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Asian - GeneralKalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work of ...

• Author(s): Immanuel Kant • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: General[T]he present groundwork is nothing more than the identification and vindication of the supreme principle of moral...

• Author(s): Karl Marx, David Mclellan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismA classic of early modernism, Capital co...

• Author(s): Karl Marx • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Movements - GeneralRegarded as one of the most influential political tracts ever written, The Communist Manifesto serves...

• Author(s): Kate Chopin • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsKate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction...

• Author(s): Keith Harrison,Helen Cooper • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsSir Gawain and the Green Knight is probably the most skillfuly told story in the whole of the English Ar...

• Author(s): Charles Kingsley • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Classics'this is all a fairy tale...and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true' The Water-Babi...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsFirst published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. His vignett...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsHow did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? How did an inquisitive little elephant change th...

• Author(s): L. Frank Baum • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsPublished at the dawn of the twentieth century, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) immediately captivated child...

• Author(s): Laozi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Taoism (see also PHILOSOPHY - Taoist)"Of ways you may speak, / but not the Perennial Way; / By names you may name, / but not t...

• Author(s): Carolyne Larrington • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Medieval'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagl...

• Author(s): Carolyne Larrington • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Medieval"She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagl...

• Author(s): Laurence Sterne • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsAt once endlessly facetious and highly serious, Sterne's great comic novel contains some of the best-known a...

• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsAt its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate l...

• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Classics"No one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied." As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his ...

• Author(s): Wyndham Lewis • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: ClassicsPlayed out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War, Tarr tells the blackly comic ...

• Author(s): Lewis Carroll,Johntenniel ,Peter Hunt • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsThe "Alice" books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the wor...

• Author(s): Matthew Lewis • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ghost'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.' The Monk (1796) is ...

• Author(s): Lionardo Da Vinci | Irma A. Richter | Martin Kemp • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Movements - RenaissanceMost of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Som...

• Author(s): Livy • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - Rome"The fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of t...

• Author(s): Longus • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsLongus's romance tells the story of two teenagers, Daphnis and Chloe, who love each other but do not know how to make...