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The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins; Francis O'Gorman (Editor)
$17.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels' T S EliotWhen Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth birthday, she has no idea that the stone brings great danger with it. When the diamond goes missing during ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Self Development | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare
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Category: Books on Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the text is ...Show more
The Peloponnesian War OWC by Thucydides; Martin Hammond (trans)
$32.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The edition also includes fourteen maps, a chronology, a glossary, a selected bibliography, and an index.
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a deba ...Show more
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included Ann Radcliffe's later works, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. Set in Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its hero ...Show more
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.' The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe drew on his own unhappy experiences to tell the story of Werther, a young man tormented ...Show more
The Swann Way by Marcel Proust
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas; David Coward (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Dumas' swashbuckling tale on the stage in a fast paced, often tongue-in-cheek romp of action packed adventure. Staged with minimal scenery and plenty of audience participation within a carnival-like atmosphere, this lively version is guaranteed to delight all participants.4 women, 13 men
The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de La Valliere and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask. This new edition of the classic translation presents a key episode in the Musketeers saga, fully annotated and with an introduction by a leading Dumas scholar. ...Show more
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. Virginia Woolf knew all too well the forms that she was supposed to follow when writing of a ...Show more