Browse by category
Can You Forgive Her? (#1 Palliser Novels) by Anthony Trollope
$23.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'She loved him much, and admired him even more than she loved him...Would that he had some faults!' Alice Vavasor is torn between a risky marriage with her ambitious cousin George and the safer prospect of a union with the formidably correct John Grey. Her indecision is reflected in the dilemmas of her ...Show more
Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope; Julian Thompson (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
FROM MODEST LONDON CLERK -- TO WEALTHY MANOR SQUIRE Here is one of Anthony Trollope's most critically successful novels, received well by his contemporaries, and yet experimental enough in execution to be almost "modern." Henry Jones is just a modest, callow fellow in a meek clerking job in London, ...Show more
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE WITH THE WILD DUCK A by IBSEN HENRIK
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Written in the aftermath of hostile criticism of Ghosts, Ibsen's three plays all deal with the moral courage needed to tell the truth. They are peopled not by symbolic figures and abstract concepts, but by complex individuals pitted against, or part of, a society that Ibsen felt was morally abhorrent an ...Show more
Henry V Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; Gary Taylor (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
First staged in 1599, Shakespeare's history of Henry V's remarkable victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From his wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and honour. Wri ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
$21.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"The Bront s' gifted biographer provides us with another superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Bront 's classic novel. For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel it ...Show more
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass; Deborah E. McDowell (Editor)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with Frederick Douglass, the writer of the following Narrative. He was a stranger to nearly every member of that body; but, having recently made his escape from the souther ...Show more
Phineas Redux (#4 Palliser Novels) by Anthony Trollope
$23.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything' After the death of his wife, the handsome politician Phineas Finn returns from Ireland to the parliamentary fray. In his absence the political and social world has subtly changed, parties and policies no longer fixed and advancement dependent u ...Show more
Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope; P. D. Edwards (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
And that was all that was then said about Luke even between Rachel and her mother. How could they speak about him? Mrs. Ray also believed that he would be no more seen in Baslehurst; and Rachel was well aware that such was her mother's belief, although it had never been expressed. What could be said bet ...Show more
The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels; David McLellan (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights, and his talent for mordant satire combine to make Engels's ...Show more
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides .
$34.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The edition also includes fourteen maps, a chronology, a glossary, a selected bibliography, and an index.
1 - 10 of 10