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2nd Hand Antigone / Oedipus the King / Electra by Sophocles
15.36 AUD
21.95 (30% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, So ...Show more
2nd Hand Mary and the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
16.09 AUD
22.99 (30% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I have lately written...a tale, to illustrate an opinion of mine, that a genius will educate itself.' Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and opportunities with men. Expressed most forcefully in her Vindication of the Rights of Woman ( ...Show more
2nd Hand Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
16.06 AUD
22.95 (30% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Written by an eccentric Anglican curate, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new fever pitch of intensity. Its tormented villain seeks a victim to release from his fatal pact with the devil, and Maturin's bizarre narrative structure whirls the reader from rural Irela ...Show more
2nd Hand Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
14.66 AUD
20.95 (30% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's ta ...Show more
2nd Hand The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ruth Prigozy (Editor)
14.66 AUD
20.95 (30% off)
Category: Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more
2nd-hand Hound Of The Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7.66 AUD
10.95 (30% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The tale of an ancient curse suddenly given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor hold many secrets for Holmes and Watson to unravel. Holmes is contemptuous of the supernatural but the reader may remain haunted by the hound.
2nd hand The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
14.66 AUD
20.95 (30% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her short fiction ever printed. In addition to her pioneering masterpiece, 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' (1890), which draws on ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
20.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable fo ...Show more
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I must apply my self to Experience; as far as that reaches, I may have certain Knowledge, but no farther.' In An Essay concerning Human Understanding, John Locke sets out his theory of knowledge and how we acquire it. Eschewing doctrines of innate principles and ideas, Locke shows how all our ideas, ...Show more
Antigone / Oedipus the King / Electra by Sophocles
21.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, So ...Show more
Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra by Sophocles
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, So ...Show more
French Decadent Tales by Stephen Romer (University of Tours Ma??tre de Conf??rences, Tours University)
9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siecle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literatur ...Show more