About World's Classics

For over a century Oxford World's Classics has published great works of literature at affordable prices. Supported by first-class introductions and other useful additions, the books offer the best-value reading experience of any classic imprint for today's students.

Oxford World's Classics texts are the most critically up-to-date and stimulating editions available. Among the benefits of an Oxford World's Classics edition are:

Consistent quality

Texts sourced from the best originals e.g. first editions, critically established texts (Clarendon editions, Oxford Shakespeare)

Expert editors shedding fresh light on historical contexts and topical parallels

Introductions providing essential background on authors and their work by discussing motivation, how their books were received, and what we think about them today

Chronologies offering a handy summary of life and world events for easy reference

Bibliographies selecting the most useful critical books and articles and suggesting further reading

Explanatory notes illuminating contemporary references and allusions, unfamiliar terms and usage, also social conventions and historical background

Appendices supplying fuller information on specific historical events and influences, and reprinting extracts from other relevant contemporary publications

Maps and diagrams clarifying locations and distances, and chart journeys and changing boundaries

Indexes and glossaries further assist the reader in locating items and understanding dialect or foreign and technical terms

Illustrations giving period flavour

Continual programme of improvement and upgrading: new and revised editions ensuring that introductions, notes, and bibliographies are up-to-date and at the cutting edge of critical thinking

Newly commissioned translations ensuring fluent and unstilted English

Fantastic value for money with prices starting at £3.50 for the classic text plus contextual information that amounts to a book in its own right

All titles in the series are available on inspection to lecturers, providing you are teaching a course for which they may be recommended as set texts. To order your inspection copy please email: inspectioncopies.europe@oup.com, or telephone: 01536 741068.

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