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It is the 150th anniversary of H. G. Wells's birth in 2016|Includes a lively and accessible introduction by a leading scholar of late Victorian popular fiction|Includes an up-to-date bibliography, chronology, and notes to provide addional contextual inter

The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First Emperor, founder of the dynasty, is told in the Historical Records of Sima Qian, the Grand Historiographer and|

The fairy tales of Perrault--stories that are known and loved around the world--are now available in this scintillating paperback edition, with twenty-six stunning illustrations by Gustave Doré. The superb translation by Christopher Betts exactly|captures

Despite his mysterious antecedents, an unscrupulous financial speculator, Ferdinand Lopez, aspires to marry into respectability and wealth and join the ranks of British society. One of the nineteenth century's most memorable outsiders, Lopez's story is|se

Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen was written at the end of Shakespeare's career, as a collaboration with the rising young dramatist John Fletcher. Neglected until recently by directors and teachers, the play deserves to be better|kn

Lively and attractive, Lily Dale lives with her mother and sister at the Small House at Allington. She falls|passionately in love with the suave Adolphus Crosbie, and is devastated when he abandons her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina de Courcy. But

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Donne's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by rarely|publi

The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda ever written. It is a summary of the whole Marxist ..|

The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be a|trans

One of the best-known classics of children's literature, a timeless masterpiece and a vital portrait of an age, The Wind in the Willows began originally in Kenneth Grahame's letters to his young son, where he first recounted the adventures of Rat and|Badg

The fifteen stories in this volume include the only collection of short fiction Woolf published in her lifetime, the eight stories published as ...

One of Dickens's most haunting and bizarre novels, The Old Curiosity Shop is the story of 'Little Nell' and her persecution by the grotesque and lecherous Quilp. This edition uses the Clarendon text, the definitive edition of the novels of Charles|Dickens

An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.'|Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is

Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1867) is the best account of the history and workings of the British political system ever written. As arguments raged in mid-Victorian Britain about giving the working man the vote, and democracies overseas were pitched into despotism and civil war, Bagehot took a long, cool look at the 'dignified' and 'efficient' elements which made the English system the envy of the world. His analysis of the monarchy, the role of the prime minister and cabinet, and

- A new edition that draws on the scholarship of the Oxford English Texts edition for both text and editorial apparatus.- Reproduces the critically established 1891 text from the OET edition.- Joseph Bristow's introduction draws on the wealth of scholarship of the last 15 years to provide the most up-to-date exploration of the novel's composition, Wilde's revisions for the 1891 edition, critical approaches, and the reputation of the novel since publication.- Textual notes will show important var

Jeri Johnson's edition of Ulysses is acknowledged by reviewers, Anthony Burgess among them, as the best available.The intro is the most wide-ranging, comprehensive, and accessible intro to the novel of any edition, demystifying its 'difficulties'.The notes are the fullest of any edition and provide a background to Irish history, the intricacies of Catholic ritual, Irish slang, literary allusions and much else.Inc. full composition and publishing history and list of selected variants.

Thomas Hardy's fourth novel, 'Far From the Madding Crowd', is a classic portrayal of 19th-century rural English life. It is the story of Bathsheba Everdene, a vain young woman, who comes to live with her aunt and uncle. There she is courted by three gentleman: Gabriel Oak--a would be shepherd, William Boldwood--a farmer, and Sergeant Francis Troy. A tragic tale of love, 'Far From the Madding Crowd' is one the greatest novels ever written, rich with emotion and pathos.

At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a|

And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'.|The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage th

This was Kipling's first published volume of fiction. The stories with their brevity and concentration of effect are a landmark in the history of the short story.|ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest r