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Capital by Karl Marx
$32.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had d ...Show more
Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
IDiscourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state. Comparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli with a ...Show more
Evolutionary Writings (Including the Autobiographies) by Charles Darwin & James A. Secord (ed.)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | 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
JOHN BARLEYCORN by JACK LONDON JOHN SUTHERLAND
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the b ...Show more
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil; Mike Mitchell; Ritchie Robertson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate'Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Torless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he stru ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. The so ...Show more
The Lives of the Poets : A Selection by Samuel Johnson (ed Roger Lonsdale)
$32.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as w ...Show more
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