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	Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself £9.99 Frederick Douglass, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Andrew Taylor 9780198835325 Paperback July 2022 Oxford World's Classics In his final autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself, Frederick Douglass shares the stories of his 'several lives in one.' He does powerful justice to his lives lived in U.S. slavery, in the fight for abolition, and in the 'conflict and battle' of the Civil War.
	Swann in Love £8.99 Marcel Proust, Brian Nelson, Adam Watt 9780198744894 Paperback November 2017 Oxford World's Classics Swann in Love is the story of Charles Swann and his infatuation with Odette de Crécy and the revealing psychological turmoil his relations with her involves. A study in jealousy and the indirections of desire; it is here that Proust first works through his devastating theory of love.
	A Love Story £8.99 Émile Zola, Helen Constantine, Brian Nelson 9780198728641 Paperback October 2017 Oxford World's Classics A fascinating study in sexual psychology and sexual politics, the novel focuses on Hélène Grandjean, a widow, and her shifting emotional states. This is the eighth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, and the first modern translation for more than fifty years.
	The Masnavi. Book Four £9.99 Jalal al-Din Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi 9780198783435 Paperback September 2017 Oxford World's Classics Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi, written in six books, is his masterpiece. It conveys a message of divine love in entertaining stories and homilies. The focus of Book Four is with the mystical knowledge of the spiritual guide.
	The War of the Worlds £6.99 H. G. Wells, Darryl Jones 9780198702641 Paperback August 2017 Oxford World's Classics In The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells invented the myth of invasion from outer space. Martians land near London, conquering all before them, and ruin the metropolis; the fate of civilization and even of the human race remains in doubt until the very last.
	Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe Second Edition £5.99 George Eliot, Juliette Atkinson 9780198724643 Paperback July 2017 Oxford World's Classics Falsely accused, cut off from his past, Silas the weaver is reduced to a spider-like existence, endlessly weaving his web and hoarding his gold. Meanwhile, Godfrey Cass, son of the squire, contracts a secret marriage.
	The Sin of Abbé Mouret £8.99 Émile Zola, Valerie Minogue 9780198736639 Paperback May 2017 Oxford World's Classics The Sin of Abbé Mouret is the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It follows Serge Mouret, a young priest, aspiring to perfect purity and sanctity. An illness leaves him with amnesia, and no longer knowing he is a priest, he falls in love with his nurse. Together they roam an Eden-like garden called the 'Paradou'.
	The Italian Third Edition £9.99 Ann Radcliffe, Nick Groom 9780198704430 Paperback March 2017 Oxford World's Classics The Italian (1797) is a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and assassination, and incarceration by the Inquisition. Radcliffe's last and most unnerving novel exemplifies her definition of 'terror' writing, combining Romantic and Gothic elements and influencing countless later writers.
	The Jewish War £10.99 Josephus, Martin Hammond, Martin Goodman 9780199646029 Paperback February 2017 Oxford World's Classics In AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a 6 month siege, the world-famous temple burnt to the ground. This was the disastrous outcome of a Jewish revolt against Roman domination beginning in AD 66 with high hopes and early success, but soon became mired in factional conflict, at its most extreme within Jerusalem itself.
	On Life and Death £9.99 Cicero, John Davie, Miriam T. Griffin 9780199644148 Paperback February 2017 Oxford World's Classics Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a leading politician of the closing era of the Roman republic. These three dialogues here are among the most accessible of Cicero's philosophical works.
	Sybil: or The Two Nations Second Edition £10.99 Benjamin Disraeli, Nicholas Shrimpton 9780198759898 Paperback February 2017 Oxford World's Classics Disraeli vividly depicts the appalling conditions of the poor-their pitiful wages, their miserably overcrowded tenements, and their exploitation by the new breed of powerful industrialists-as an indirect plea for social and political reform and for the fulfilment of his dream of a new, more democratic England.
	The Island of Doctor Moreau £6.99 H. G. Wells, Darryl Jones 9780198702665 Paperback February 2017 Oxford World's Classics The Island of Doctor Moreau is the account of Edward Prendick, an English gentleman who finds himself shipwrecked and an unwelcomed guest on the Pacific island of one Doctor Moreau. There, Prendick discovers Moreau is performing horrific experiments, using vivisection to craft animals into human beings.
	The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance £6.99 H. G. Wells, Matthew Beaumont 9780198702672 Paperback January 2017 Oxford World's Classics One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. In this pioneering novella, Wells combines comedy, both farcical and satirical, and tragedy - to superbly unsettling effect.
	The Time Machine £5.99 H. G. Wells, Roger Luckhurst 9780198707516 Paperback January 2017 Oxford World's Classics The Time Machine is a scientific romance that helped invent the genre of science fiction and the time travel story. This edition features a contextual introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and two essays Wells wrote just prior to the publication of his first book.
	The First Men in the Moon £8.99 H. G. Wells, Simon J. James 9780198705048 Paperback January 2017 Oxford World's Classics At the village of Lympne, on the south coast of England, the failed playwright Mr Bedford meets the brilliant inventor Mr Cavor, and together they invade the moon. The First Men in the Moon is an inspired and imaginative fantasy of space travel and alien life, a satire of turn-of-the-century Britain
	The Song of Roland and Other Poems of Charlemagne £8.99 Simon Gaunt, Karen Pratt 9780199655540 Paperback November 2016 Oxford World's Classics The Song of Roland offers fascinating insights into medieval ideas about heroism, manhood, religion, race, & nationhood which were foundational for modern European culture. It is the oldest known surviving major work of French literature based on the Battle of Roncevaux in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne.
	The Odyssey £16.99 Homer, Anthony Verity, William Allan 9780199669103 Hardback October 2016 Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection The Odyssey tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus' epic ten year journey home after the end of the Trojan War of the Iliad. Its epic sweep has gripped generations of readers.
	The Classic Horror Stories £8.99 H. P. Lovecraft, Roger Luckhurst 9780198759492 Paperback October 2016 Oxford World's Classics H. P. Lovecraft is a major writer of horror stories, in the genre of 'weird fiction'. This new edition brings together his core 'classic' fictions with a full contextual introduction, offering a balanced assessment of an influential cult author whose tales of metaphysical horror create a profound sense of dread and unease.
	New Grub Street Second Edition £10.99 George Gissing, Katherine Mullin 9780198729181 Paperback September 2016 Oxford World's Classics New Grub Street (1891), generally regarded as Gissing's finest novel, is the story of the daily lives and broken dreams of men and women forced to earn a living by the pen. It tells of a group of novelists, journalists, and scholars caught in the literary and cultural crisis that hit Britain in the closing years of the nineteenth century.
	Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration £9.99 John Locke, Mark Goldie 9780198732440 Paperback June 2016 Oxford World's Classics Locke's Second Treatise is a classic of political philosophy. It helped entrench ideas of a social contract, human rights, and consent as guiding principles for modern Western democracy. His Letter calls for religious tolerance and separation of church and state. This edition offers an essential guide to these two foundational works.

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