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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$13.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'It was the garden that did it - and Mary and Dickon and the creatures - and the Magic.' An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, a walled garden, with its door locked and the key buried - and a boy who talks to animals. These are the ingredients ...Show more
The Steppe and Other Stories by Ronald (TRN) Anton Pavlovich; Hingley Chekhov
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Tempest (Oxford World Classics) The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
$13.50 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was placed first when published in the First Folio of 1623, and is now generally seen ...Show more
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
$26.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life'. In so doing he produced a landmark study of affluen ...Show more
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre'Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines, continuous with those in his ...Show more
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre by John Polidori
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"' John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produ ...Show more
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
$25.95 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.' The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we define evil to ourselves, the difference between a hea ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon.' Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental, daring and challenging, The Waves is regarded by many as Virginia Woolf's greatest achievement. It follows a s ...Show more
The Wild Ass's Skin by Honoré de Balzac
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me...' Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris, and contemplates ending his life by throwing himself into the Seine. He is distracted by the bizarre array o ...Show more
The Years by Virginia. Woolf; Sue Asbee (Other); Hermione Lee (Editor)
$28.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Extra Things added to the Book Added biography of the author Added details of character About of book included Quotes are added to each chapter Added index to get a quick view and interface Grammar correction is done A summary of the book is included The most mainstream of Virginia Woolf's books ...Show more
The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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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
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf; David Bradshaw (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"WITH INTROUCTIONS BY EAVAN BOLAND AND MAUD ELLMAN The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf construct ...Show more