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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.
	Jacob's Room Second Edition £7.99 Virginia Woolf, Urmila Seshagiri 9780192857392 Paperback June 2022 Oxford World's Classics Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war.
	Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction Second Edition £6.99 Virginia Woolf, Bryony Randall, David Bradshaw 9780198838135 Paperback April 2022 Oxford World's Classics Essential to Virginia Woolf's development as a novelist, these short stories are among the most interesting and accomplished fictions she wrote.
	Estate Management and Symposium £8.99 Xenophon, Emily Baragwanath, Anthony Verity 9780198823513 Paperback April 2022 Oxford World's Classics Xenophon recounted several Socratic dialogues which included his Symposium and Oeconomicus and both are concerned with Athenian private life. They are literary creations that reveal Xenophon as a skilled literary artist, an innovative thinker, and far from merely reflecting the conventional thinking of the world around him.
	The Origins of Science Fiction £16.99 Michael Newton 9780198853619 Hardback April 2022 Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe's playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett's feminist fantasy.
	Emma Fifth Edition £4.99 Jane Austen, John Mullan 9780198837756 Paperback March 2022 Oxford World's Classics Emma is considered by many to be Austen's finest and most representative novel. The story of Emma Woodhouse's matchmaking, and her awakening to the true feelings of others as well as herself, is told with consummate wit and humour.
	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

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