Oxford World`s Classics

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

`What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?` Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor...

A Study in Scarlet

The first of the Sherlock Holmes stories, this was also the first of Conan Doyle`s books to be published. In this fascinating and exciting tale, the two towering creations of detective fiction-Holmes, the master of...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

`You don`t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", but that ain`t no matter.` So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a...

Catherine the Great: Selected Letters

Classic Horror Stories, the

Five Plays

Chekhov`s worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the authoritative...

Flappers and Philosophers

Frankenstein

"Frankenstein" was Mary Shelley`s immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron wrote one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy,...

Horror Stories

Joseph Andrews and Shamela

Генри Филдинг

Henry Fielding wrote both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) in response to Samuel Richardson`s book Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a splendidly bawdy travesty. Joseph Andrews begins as a parody, too, but...

Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript

The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, "Le Morte Darthur" was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight-prisoner`. In a resonant prose style, Malory charts the tragic disintegration of...

Les Liaisons dangereuses

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Its prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the...

Leviathan

He that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind. Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the...

Macbeth

The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers. a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all...

Memoirs from the House of the Dead

In this almost documentary account of his own experience of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail....

Pride and Prejudice / Гордость и предубеждение

Selected Poems

`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language`. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside...

Selected Letters

`Little Matters they are to be sure, but highly important`. Letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen`s time and social position, and Austen`s letters have a freedom and familiarity...

Selected Poetry

Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a...

Selected Poems: With Parallel Spanish Text

`Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid moral code, individual desire at war with tradition`. Manuel Duran Federico Garcia Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated...

Selected Stories

``I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of``. Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield`s work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen all...

Sense and Sensibility (Ned) Разум и чувства

Sister Carrie

"Sister Carrie" was first printed in 1900 but publication was effectively held up until 1912 because its realism and supposed immorality were judged likely to give offence. Theodore Dreiser intertwined his narrative...

South Sea Tales

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he...

The Canterbury Tales

`Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all`... In Chaucer`s most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims...