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Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud; Martin Sorrell (Translator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert CamusRimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about 15 an ...Show more
Collected Poems: Rimbaud by Arthur Rimbaud
$24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about 15 a ...Show more
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
$14.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'A man ...is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by the railway and by new ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Oxford World Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
$40.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conven ...Show more
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
$34.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational' In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of ...Show more
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
$32.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational' In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
$14.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a Londo ...Show more
Dracula (OWC) by Bram Stoker
$16.98 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'it was butcher work...the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam' Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the world, an ancient creature bent on bringing his contagion to London, the very heart of the British Empire. Only ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Although only 24, James Joyce knew 'Dubliners' worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation in Ireland'. Each of the 15 stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners - a death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled - and collectively paint a p ...Show more
Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Writt ...Show more
Epigrams: With parallel Latin text by Martial
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'If you're one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.' The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets of the Empire's capital, he takes apart the pretensions, addictions, and cruelties of its inhabitants wi ...Show more
Evolutionary Writings (Including the Autobiographies) by Charles Darwin & James A. Secord (ed.)
$49.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks Ser.
On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together the key chapters of his most important and accessible books, including the Jou ...Show more