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Book List in Order: 89 titles

  • Esau and Jacob

    Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between...

  • Fantastic Worlds

    As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories, ranging from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James T...

  • The Classic Fairy Tales

    This volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Including "Sleeping Beauty," "Bluebeard," "Cinderella," "T...

  • The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories

    Ireland has been called a nation of story-tellers. "Stories of one kind or another have a way of pressing themselves into Irish conversation, both as entertainment and as a form of communication," writes William Trevor. "For centuries they have been ...

  • The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley

    The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison have come to dominate the larger Afro-American literary landscape. Yet the works of the writers who founded and...

  • Classic English Short Stories, 1930-1955

    The years from 1930 to 1955 marked a high point in the fortunes of the English short story. Inevitably World War II left its mark on many of the stories Derek Hudson has collected in this suberb volume, but, he argues in the introduction, that "the d...

  • The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories

    The scene: a sleeping car on the North-Western express, somewhere between Preston and Carlisle. The weapon: a small-caliber revolver. The victims: two young newlyweds, with little money and no known enemies. The puzzle: everyone in the car has an ali...

  • Lilith's Cave

    Once upon a time in the city of Tunis, a flirtatious young girl was drawn into Lilith's dangerous web by glancing repeatedly at herself in the mirror. It seems that a demon daughter of the legendary Lilith had made her home in the mirror and would so...

  • Discoveries

    Reflecting today's growing emphasis on multiculturalism, the second edition of this remarkably successful anthology offers twelve additional contributions from the new generation of writers currently revitalizing the short story form, including Amy T...



  • Voices from the Harlem Renaissance

    The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s symbolized black liberation and sophistication--the final shaking off of slavery, in the mind, spirit, and character of African-Americans. It was a period when the African-American came of age, with the clearest ex...

  • Dictionary of Creation Myths

    "God made Heaven, and then, after measuring the space underneath with a ball of thread, he began to form the earth. A mole asked to help, and God gave him the thread to hold while he wove the patterns of the earth. Sometimes the mole would let out to...

  • God

    He has been a trickster, a shaman, a divine child; he has been a sacrificial victim, a consort of the earth goddess, a warrior, a sky king; and the creator, a distant and impersonal immensity. He is the male divine, seen in the many gods of myth, and...

  • The Oxford Book of English Love Stories

    Adulterous love, marital love, virginal love, religious devotion, agape, lust, eros: there are an infinite variety of meanings that can be packed into the four letters that spell love, and writers of fiction have been trying for centuries to plumb it...

  • Goddess

    An old woman lives still among the broken slopes of the mountains in the land of the Tarahumara Indians. No one knows exactly where. She is sometimes seen standing along the highway near El Paso, hauling wood near Oaxaca, or even hitching a ride on a...

  • The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories

    In this remarkably wide-ranging anthology, Ilan Stavans has collected the work of more than fifty notable Jewish writers from around the globe, weaving these diverse viewpoints and voices into a rich portrait of Jewish literary tradition.

    The ...

  • Beowulf

    The finest literary work passed down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, Beowulf celebrates the existence of heroism in a dark world of feuds, violence, and uncertainty. Set in the legendary Scandinavian past, Beowulf comes to the aid of the Danish king Hr...

  • Juan de la Rosa

    Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal iden...

  • Torn from the Nest

    Clorinda Matto de Turner was the first Peruvian novelist to command an international reputation and the first to dramatize the exploitation of indigenous Latin American people. She believed the task of the novel was to be the photograph that captures...

  • The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories

    When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. Not only was the writing extraordinary but its sudden and sp...



  • The Oxford Book of Work


    Primal curse or sacred duty? Painful drudgery or the only sure route to human happiness? Work has always evoked conflicting reactions. Yet whether we view it as a tedious necessity or embrace it as a compulsive addiction, it remains an inescapabl...

  • Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant

    Recognized as a turning point in Brazilian literature, this entertaining novel of urban manners follows the ne'er-do-well Leonardo through his various romantic liaisons and frequent scrapes with the law. First printed in weekly installments in 1852, ...

  • The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States

    Provocative and compulsively readable, lively, engaging, and brilliantly representative, The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States presents short stories, poems, essays, plays, speeches, performance pieces, erotica, diaries, corresponde...

  • The Slum

    First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil. Indeed, its great popularity, realistic descriptions, archetypal situations, detailed l...

  • Amalia

    Amalia is one of the most popular Latin American novels and, until recently, was required reading in Argentina's schools. It was written to protest the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas and to provide a picture of the political events during his r...

  • Tales from Japan

    Full of magic and wonder, these are tales of wicked giants and fairy children, beautiful princesses and fearless warriors. This extraordinary collection of stories from Japan are lively retellings of legends and fairy tales that include the great sto...

  • The Oxford Book of French Short Stories

    This collection of French short stories in translation expands our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of Francophone origin. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, the colle...

  • Ancient Jewish Novels

    This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels. Written at about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, but before the period of Rabbinic Judaism, these texts reveal the a...

  • Free Pages and Other Essays

    Manuel González Prada was a powerful Peruvian writer and political reformer whose essays and speeches influenced generations of young radicals. He founded the Party of National Unity in 1891, was linked to the anarchist movement, and served as Direc...

  • The Oxford Book of Detective Stories

    The field of detective fiction is vast, and The Oxford Book of Detective Stories brings together the best short fiction from around the world to show how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on the genre. As well as English and Americ...



  • The Oxford Book of Sea Stories

    Malevolent, mysterious, vast, the ocean has always sparked our fascination and sense of adventure, giving rise to a remarkable vein of narrative deftly mined here by editor Tony Tanner. In the twenty-seven tales of The Oxford Book of the Sea, masters...

  • Martial's Epigrams Book Two

    This edition provides an English translation of and detailed commentary on the second book of epigrams published by the Latin poet Marcus Valerius Martialis. The past ten years have seen a resurgence of interest in Martial's writings. But contemporar...

  • Introduction to Mythology

    Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths introduces students to a wide range of myths from various critical perspectives. Featuring original texts from sources around the world, it includes readings from Greek a...

  • Sidrak and Bokkus

    This is a previously unpublished fifteenth-century book of knowledge, written in verse in question-and-answer form and enclosed in a framing adventure story. The English version is taken from an Old French source. The work covers a very wide range of...

  • Oxford Bookworms Library: The Omega Files Short Stories: Level 1: 400-Word Vocabulary

    This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.

    Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.

  • Sweeney Todd

    The notorious career of Sweeney Todd, the 'Demon Barber' of London's Fleet Street, and his partnership with pie-maker Mrs Lovett, has been endlessly retold in print, on stage and in film. This is an authoritative edition of the original 1846-7 story...

  • Oxford Bookworms Library: Silas Marner: Level 4: 1400-Word Vocabulary

    This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.

    Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.

  • The Golden Ass

    Apuleius's Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results ...

  • The Library of Greek Mythology

    The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War.

    Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classici...

  • Orlando Furioso

    Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) was the oldest of 10 children being the successor to the patriarchal position of his family. From his earliest years, Ludovico was interested in poetry, but was obliged by his father, a commander of the Reggio Emilia cita...



  • Early Modern Women's Writing

    This anthology is a unique collection of rare women's writing written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This collection introduces modern readers to the various examples of the work of women writers from these centuries and includes poe...

  • Lancelot of the Lake

    Written in the early thirteenth century and universally considered a major work of European literature, Lancelot greatly influenced Malory, Tennyson, T.H. White and others. This edition presents, for the first time in English translation, the origina...

  • Oxford Bookworms Collection and All for Love

    Stories by Maeve Binchy, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, H.E. Bates, Graham Greene, Fay Weldon, Patricia Highsmith, John Morrison, Somerset Maugham look at human relationships and some of the sad, appalling, or surprising things that are ...

  • Tales of the Elders of Ireland

    Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Senórach, the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland. It contains the earliest and most comprehensive collection of Fenian sto...

  • Geoffrey Chaucer

    Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to st...

  • Oxford Bookworms Collection A Window on the Universe

    Nine science-fiction stories by some of the best-known writers of the genre including Ray Bradbury, Philip K Dick, Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Brian Aldiss, and John Wyndham offer some thought-provoking possibilities....

  • The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

    The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvelous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its gr...

  • Eirik The Red and Other Icelandic Sagas

    Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew," ...

  • Letters of a Peruvian Woman

    One of the most popular novels of the eighteenth century, the Letters of a Peruvian Woman recounts the story of Zilia, an Inca Virgin of the Sun, who is captured by the Spanish conquistadores and brutally separated from her lover, Aza. She is rescued...

  • Late Victorian Gothic Tales

    The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic ta...



  • Corinne, or Italy

    Corrine, or Italy, is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil, and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. Stael, the subject of recent feminist rediscovery, weaves discreet political allu...

  • A Gentle Creature and Other Stories

    In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fanta...

  • The Romance of the Rose

    This is a new translation of The Romance of the Rose, an allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair which became the most popular and influential of all medieval romances. In the hands of Jean de Meun, who continued de Lorris's work...

  • A Life

    `every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth'

    What is a life? How shall a sto...

  • Berlin Tales

    If there is one city that captures the tragedy and euphoria of the twentieth century, it is Berlin. The scene of socialist revolution and Nazi oppression, invaded and occupied, divided and blockaded, it rose again after German reunification to become...

  • Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah

    Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannicus (1669), the first play in this volume, takes its themes from Roman history: the setting is bloody and treacherous court of the Emperor Nero. Phaedra (1677...

  • The Peloponnesian War

    "The greatest historian that ever lived." Such was Macaulay's assessment of Thucydides (c. 460 400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta that lasted for twenty seven years from 431 to 404 BC, i...

  • Seven Deadly Sins

  • Daphnis and Chloe

    Longus's romance tells the story of two teenagers, Daphnis and Chloe, who love each other but do not know how to make love. Around their predicament Longus weaves a fantasy which entertains and instructs, but never errs in taste. The hard toil and pr...

  • Oxford Bookworms Library: Red Dog: Level 2: 700-Word Vocabulary Level 2

    This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.

    Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.

  • Classic Tales 2e L3 the Little Mermaid Pack

    This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy f...

  • Kocharethi

    Set in the 1930s, the novel revolves around the Mala Arayars, a tribe in the hilly terrains of mid-eastern Kerala. Capturing their suffering, anguish, love, desire, aspiration, and frustration, Kocharethi depicts their move towards citizenship in ind...

  • Rome Tales

    Presenting a vivid mosaic of dramatic, comic, and tragic stories, all set in the Eternal City, these twenty absorbing tales capture the delight of discovering and exploring one of the world's most beloved cities. Spanning seven hundred years, this ma...

  • CLASSIC TALES 2E THE PRINCESS & THE PEA W/ MROM PK

  • Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Young Couples

    Praised by acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin as "young Dickens at his most playful," this delightful volume showcases two collections of little-known sketches by Dickens, charmingly illustrated by Phiz. Whimsical, satirical, witty and exuberant, th...

  • CLASSIC TALES 2E L1 THE SHOEMAKER AND THE ELVES PACK

    This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy f...

  • Classic Tales the Magic Cooking Pot Pack

    This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy f...

  • Cultural Anthropology

  • Interplay

  • The Magic Cooking Pot

  • Making the Grade

    Filled with practical strategies for today''s student, Making the Grade is an insightful, easy-to-use guide that will help readers develop the skills they need to excel at the university level. Classroom-tested and authored by an international team o...

  • Mansour and the Donkey

    This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy f...

  • Classic Tales the Little Red Hen

    This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy f...

  • In A Forest, A Deer

    Ambai, one of the finest modern Tamil short-story writers, is much read, discussed and written about, and loved for the wit, innovative story-telling, and lyrical grace of her writing.

    Breaking traditional modes of expression in terms of lang...

  • Madrid Tales

    The buzzing life of bars, warm evenings by the Manzanares river, the subterranean terrors of the Metro, icy winters and hot, empty summers, student days in the sixties, the ruthless underworld of the city's mafia - this captivating anthology reflects...

  • The Man who Disappeared

    Entering New York harbor, the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty, "her arm with the sword stretched upward." This forbidding introduction sets the tone for Kafka's narrative about an innocent European astray in an ultra-modern A...

  • Classic Tales Cinderella Pack

    Enjoy the famous tale of Cinderella, who wanted to go to the prince's party.This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading...

  • Classic Tales Rumpelstiltskin

  • Classic Tales Rumpelstiltskin Pack

    This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy f...

  • Classic Tales Thumbelina Pack

    Follow the adventures of Thumbelina, the little girl who comes from inside a flower.This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking,...

  • The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

    In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to ...

  • The Kafka Collection

    One of the giants of world literature, Franz Kafka in a relatively short life wrote both major modernist novels--The Trial, The Man Who Disappeared, and The Castle--and such classics of short fiction as "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," and...

  • The Book of Marvels and Travels

    In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. A captivating blend of fact and fantasy, Mandeville's B...

  • The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories

    Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them are the dominant themes in the three short works by Balzac collected in this volume.

    In Sarrasine, an impetuous young sculptor falls in love with a diva of th...

  • Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue

    This is the first new translation in over forty years of Sade's novel Justine. It is also the first ever critical edition, based on the original 1791 version of the story, which is the most accessible and artistically successful of the three versions...

  • A Case of Hysteria: Dora

    "I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora's nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation."

    A new translation of one of Freud's most important and intriguing texts, A Case of Hysteria-- popularly known as the "Dora C...

  • The Aspern Papers and Other Stories

    As well as 'The Aspern Papers', this selection includes 'The Death of the Lion', 'The Figure in the Carpet', and 'The Birthplace'. All four stories concern the figure of the artist and the cult of celebrity. This new e...

  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published here with three appendices containing a wealth of related manuscript material and a comp...

  • Wuthering Heights

    When Heathcliff comes to live at Wuthering Heights as a child he forms a bond with his benefactor's daughter, Cathy. As the years pass the pair fall in love, but their happiness is short-lived and the events that unfold will bring terrible misfortune...

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