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	Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson £8.99 Darryl Jones 9780199685448 Paperback 25 October 2018 Oxford World's Classics This anthology brings together 29 of the greatest horror stories from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions through the long 19th century. It ranges widely across diverse sub-genres including the supernatural, psychological and tales of the uncanny, and features established classics as well as little-known works.
	The Dream £8.99 Émile Zola, Paul Gibbard 9780198745983 Paperback 27 September 2018 Oxford World's Classics In The Dream, the sixteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, Zola blends mysticism and fairy tale with naturalism as an orphan girl falls in love with a nobleman.
	The Bright Side of Life £9.99 Émile Zola, Andrew Rothwell 9780198753612 Paperback 26 July 2018 Oxford World's Classics When Pauline Quenu is taken to the seaside to live with her relatives, her love of life contrasts with the pessimism which infects the family. This is the twelfth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, remarkable for it's depictions of intense emotions and physical and mental suffering.
	On the Soul: and Other Psychological works £9.99 Aristotle, Fred D. Miller, Jr. 9780199588213 Paperback 24 May 2018 Oxford World's Classics Aristotle's De Anima (On the Soul) is one of the great classics of philosophy. Aristotle examines the nature of the soul-sense-perception, imagination, cognition, emotion, and desire, including, memory, dreams, and processes such as nutrition, growth, and death.
	The Art of Rhetoric £9.99 Aristotle, Robin Waterfield, Harvey Yunis 9780198724254 Paperback 26 April 2018 Oxford World's Classics Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is a treatise concerning the theory and practice of the most dynamic form of discourse in Classical Greece. The Rhetoric was a touchstone for all later ancient writers on the subject, from the Stoics to Cicero.
	His Excellency Eugène Rougon £9.99 Émile Zola, Brian Nelson 9780198748250 Paperback 26 April 2018 Oxford World's Classics His Excellency Eugène Rougon is the sixth in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. Here, the novel presents a detailed picture of court and political circles during the Second Empire, satirizing the corruption and cronyism at its heart.
	Autobiography £9.99 John Stuart Mill, Mark Philp 9780198759607 Paperback 22 March 2018 Oxford World's Classics J. S. Mill was the greatest British philosopher of the nineteenth century. Mill's purpose in writing his Autobiography was to set down his own struggle for individuality, and vindicate his life to himself and others.
	The Odyssey £8.99 Homer, Anthony Verity, William Allan 9780198736479 Paperback 22 February 2018 Oxford World's Classics 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.
	Swann in Love £8.99 Marcel Proust, Brian Nelson, Adam Watt 9780198744894 Paperback 23 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 26 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 14 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 10 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 13 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 11 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 23 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 23 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 23 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 09 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 09 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 12 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.

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