Oxford World's Classics

A continuous programme of new titles and revised editions ensures that the series retains its breadth and reflects the latest scholarship. Comprehensive introductions, clear explanatory notes, chronologies, and bibliographies support the classic texts. In addition, many Oxford World's Classics include fascinating and useful related material such as maps, glossaries, indexes, illustrations, and appendices.

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"The Oxford Worlds Classics... proves all over again that classics only become classics because they are superb reading." - Louis de Bernières

"[for OWC Zola's Rougon-Maquart Cycle] OUP editions are the ones to read, not only because the translations are infinitely better than anything else I found, but also because the Introductions will add to your enjoyment of the novels and the series." - Lisa Hill, ANZLit Lovers

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New Releases

Nana

Second Edition

Émile Zola, Helen Constantine, Brian Nelson
Belinda

Second Edition

Maria Edgeworth, Linda Bree
The Prisoner of Zenda

Second Edition

Anthony Hope, Nicholas Daly
The Interpretation of Dreams

Artemidorus, Peter Thonemann, Martin Hammond

Featured Titles

The Italian

Third Edition

Ann Radcliffe, Nick Groom
Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

John Locke, Mark Goldie
Victorian Fairy Tales

Michael Newton
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Vilain
An Autobiography

Second Edition

Anthony Trollope, Nicholas Shrimpton
Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy, Rosamund Bartlett
Earth

Émile Zola, Brian Nelson, Julie Rose
Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies

Sophocles, Oliver Taplin
Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert, Helen Constantine, Patrick Coleman
King Solomon's Mines

Second Edition

H. Rider Haggard, Roger Luckhurst
The Compleat Angler

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Marjorie Swann
The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White, Anne Secord

Hardcover Classics

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker
The Poetic Edda

Carolyne Larrington
Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nicolas Pasternak Slater, Sarah J. Young
Snow White and Other Tales

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Joyce Crick
Sense and Sensibility

Third Edition

Jane Austen, John Mullan