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Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made av ...Show more
Vathek by William Beckford
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!' The Caliph Vathek is dissolute and debauched, and hungry for knowledge. When the mysterious Giaour offers him boundless treasure and unrivalled power he is willing to sac ...Show more
Victorian Fairy Tales by Michael Newton (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written. They offer the shortest path to the age's dreams, desires, and wishes. Authors central ...Show more
Vita Nuova by Mark (TRN) Dante Alighieri; Musa
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of thi ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia. Ball ...Show more
War and Peace (Oxford World Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
I don't understand it; I don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars. How is it that we women don't want anything of the kind, don't need it? Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasio ...Show more
Ward Number Six and Other Stories by Ronald (TRN) Anton Pavlovich; Hingley Chekhov
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Taken from The Oxford Chekhov, the stories in this collection include "The Butterfly," "Ariadne," "A Dreary Story," "Neighbours," "An Anonymous Story," and "Doctor Startsev," as well as the title story. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Category: Business | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This edition contains generous selections from all five volumes of The Wealth of Nations, and places Smith's inquiry into its historical, intellectual, and cultural context.
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy; Kathryn R. King (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these tales also portray the social and economic stresses of 1880s Dorset, and reveal Hardy's growing scepticismabout the pos ...Show more
William Wordsworth: The Major Works by William Wordsworth
Category: Gift | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important letters, prefaces, and essays - to give the es ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This edition of Emily Bronte's classic 1847 novel uses the authoritative Clarendon text. Patsy Stoneman's introduction considers the bewildering variety of critical interpretation to which the novel has been subject, as well as offering some insights for the modern reader.