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A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of A Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky
$17.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement fr ...Show more
A Hunger Artist and Other Stories (PB) by Franz Kafka
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This new translation includes Kafka's two published collections, A Country Doctor and A Hunger Artist with other, uncollected stories, aphorisms, and parables that have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous, the stories meditate on art and artists and the human ex ...Show more
As You Like it: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
$15.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines S ...Show more
Cymbeline - The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; Roger Warren (Editor)
$21.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years. One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage imperiled by mistrust and painfully rebuilt in the context of international conflict. Roger Warren's commentary empha ...Show more
Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud's original argument, unmodified by revisions he made following the book's critical reception which included, under the influence of his associat ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
$10.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775-1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life that is now r ...Show more
The Bible: Authorized King James Version
$33.95 AUD
Category: Mind, Body, Spirit | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. ...Show more
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'His figure was striking, but not so from grace ...and as he stalked along, wrapt in the black garments of his order, there was something terrible in its air; something almost super-human.' First published in 1797, The Italian is one of the finest examples of Gothic romance. The fast-paced, narrative c ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
$27.95 AUD
Category: Classics | 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 Monk by Matthew Lewis
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin monast ...Show more
Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
$21.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Three Tales offers an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest novelists. A Simple Heart is set in the Normandy of Flaubert's childhood, while Saint Julian and Herodias draw on medieval myth and the biblical story of John the Baptist for their inspiration. Each of the tales invi ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each episode has its ...Show more
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