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Forthcoming

Richard II
9780198881964
$16.95
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Richard II

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  • A new edition of one of Shakespeare's most famous history plays, Richard II
  • Presents the play's queer performance history, as well as explaining the historical contexts alluded to by the play and the role it played in political events of the 1590s
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Hailey Bachrach, Edited by Anna Pruitt, and Emma Smith
King Henry VIII; or All is True
9780198872023
$16.95
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King Henry VIII; or All is True

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  • Shakespeare's retelling of one of the most defining periods in English history
  • The play negotiates the ambivalence of truth as dictated by the monarch and the church, and the women who become collateral damage amidst the ambitions of both
  • The introduction offers an engaging account of one of Shakespeare's most lavish and yet least known plays, in the context of near-contemporary dramatizations of the life of Henry VIII, including Rowley's When Ye See Me, Ye Know Me (1605)
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Laura Jayne Wright, Edited by Will Sharpe, and Emma Smith
Julius Caesar
9780192872661
$16.95
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Julius Caesar

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  • A new edition of one of Shakespeare's most famous Roman plays, Julius Ceasar
  • Provides the reader with an engaging historical and theatrical context for the play and extends their thinking to examine the uses of history to question political structures today
  • Examines who is permitted to question those in power and the ability of women to manoeuvre themselves into positions of political power
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Brandi K. Adams, Edited by Sarah Neville, and Emma Smith
Cymbeline
9780192882868
$16.95
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Cymbeline

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  • A new edition of one of Shakespeare's last tragedies centred on an embattled woman's struggle to survive
  • Embraces the play's rich, disorientating multiplicity as a romance, imagined history, experimental drama, and Jacobean exploration of nationhood
  • Explores the play's dramaturgical context and considers its afterlives, from its Restoration adaptation as The Injur'd Princess to Kneehigh's Imogen, discussing how different eras have addressed the human story at the heart of the play
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Kim Gilchrist, Edited by Rory Loughnane, and Emma Smith
Titus Andronicus
9780198875055
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Titus Andronicus

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  • A new edition of Shakespeare's bloodiest play, Titus Andronicus
  • Engages with wider debates around Shakespeare's cultural value, which are often missing from critical editions of his plays
  • Dedicates ample space to discussion of the play's more problematic aspects, including racism and sexual violence
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Harry R. McCarthy, Edited by Gary Taylor, Terri Bourus, Rory Loughnane, Anna Pruitt, Francis X. Connor, and Emma Smith.
The Comedy of Errors
9780192869036
$16.95
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The Comedy of Errors

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  • Provides a rich historical and editorial context for the play, showing points of contact between The Comedy of Errors and its literary sources and analogues, both classical and contemporary
  • Reappraises the play as a piece of dramaturgical experimentation, situating it not just alongside direct written sources but within the performance traditions of Shakespeare's time
  • Pays sustained attention to the play's dramaturgical demands on its performers, and to its sympathetic demands upon its spectators, drawing on two productions staged in 2012
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Ian Burrows, Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge, Edited by Sarah Neville, Ohio State University, and Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford

New Releases

The Fall of the Roman Republic
9780198822882
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The Fall of the Roman Republic

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  • The first English translation of this key text produced for over a century
  • Provides a lively, readable, and up-to-date translation, accompanied by an informative introduction and notes
  • Dio's account is a key source for the last years of the Roman Republic (69-50 BCE), which led to its collapse in civil war
    Cassius Dio

    Translated by Robin Waterfield, Independent scholar and translator, and with introduction and notes by John Rich, University of Nottingham.
Hamsun's Hunger
9780192862846
$16.95
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Hunger

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  • Provides a new perspective on the novel in the light of Hamsun's 'poetry of the nerves' by discussing not only the affective life of the narrator in this perspective but also the urban context which embodies his 'extended mind'
  • The translation reflects new changes in scholarship and provides a fresh and sharp-edged sense of the narrative voice
  • Pays specific attention to the relation between the segments of text that were published earlier and the novel as it appeared in 1890
    Knut Hamsun

    Translated by Terence Cave, Emeritus Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and with introduction by Tore Rem, University of Oslo.
Moby-Dick
9780198853695
$19.95
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Moby-Dick

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  • Edited by a leading Melville scholar, past president of the Herman Melville Society, and a participant in the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan, the world's last surviving wooden whaleship and the sister ship to the Acushnet, in which Melville sailed
  • Introduction highlights a little-known annotation in Hawthorne's copy of Moby-Dick
  • An edition for the twenty-first century, one that recognizes that each generation of readers will remake classic novels anew
  • Introduces readers to the experience of reading the book, interpretative questions, and its place in the history of the American novel
    Herman Melville

    Edited by Hester Blum, a leading Melville scholar
Ulysses
9780192855107
$23.95
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Ulysses

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  • A new edition marking 100 years since the first publication of Joyce's landmark novel
  • Contains a critical introduction, full composition and publication history, map of Dublin, the two schemata showing correspondencies between the texts and the Odyssey and the symbols for each episode, and full explanatory notes
  • Includes new explanatory notes, a revised introduction, and expanded bibliography
    James Joyce

    Edited by Jeri Johnson, Associate Professor of English
    at the University of Oxford

Best-selling

Jane Eyre
9780198804970
$16.95
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Jane Eyre

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  • A lively introduction, focussing on the historical context of the compelling first-person narrative voice, and the striking physicality of the novel
  • Uses the authoritative Clarendon Edition edited by Jane Jack and Margaret Smith
  • Offers extensive and detailed explanatory notes and up-to-date Bibliography
  • Includes, as an appendix, the 'Opinions of the Press' (as printed at the end of the Third Edition)
    Charlotte Brontë

    Juliette Atkinson, Associate Professor in English Literature, University College London, and Edited by Margaret Smith
The Great Gatsby
9780199536405
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The Great Gatsby

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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel in 1925, considered a pinnacle of American fiction
  • Portrays Jay Gatsby's opulent life in a Long Island mansion during the "Jazz Age," capturing the era's spirit, excitement, and darker aspects
  • Explores themes of romantic imagination, the pursuit of unattainable dreams, and the contrast between hope and disillusionment
  • The most up-to-date critical edition, includes annotations, a new interpretation in the introduction, details about Fitzgerald's writing process, the novel's reception, and its enduring significance
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Edited by Ruth Prigozy, Professor and former Chair of English, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
9780199536221
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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  • An excellent new edition of Stevenson's most famous story, including three additional tales, two short essays, appendixes containing extracts from contemporary writing on psychological disorder, and a wide-ranging introduction that considers the many, varied readings of this fascinating work
  • Includes the short stories 'The Body Snatcher', 'Markheim', and 'Olalla' as well as the important essays 'A Chapter on Dreams' and 'A Gossip on Romance'
  • Wide-ranging introduction considers the reasons for the book's popularity, 'the double' and psychoanalytic interpretations, crime, sex, class and urbanism in the 1880s, the Gothic and Modernism
  • Full notes, including details of the initial responses of Stevensons' contemporaries such as John Addington Symonds, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rider Haggard
  • Up-to-date bibliography
    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Edited by Roger Luckhurst, Senior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London
Hamlet
9780199535811
$22.95
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Hamlet

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  • Hamlet is unique among Shakespeare's tragedies for its mix of violence and introspection, with intriguing riddles and paradoxes
  • Professor Hibbard's introduction explains how different texts were merged in the 18th century, making Hamlet seem more complex than its original version
  • The Oxford Shakespeare edition provides a new, practical text based on Shakespeare's revisions in the First Folio
    William Shakespeare

    Edited by G. R. Hibbard, English literary scholar

Featured Titles

Crime and Punishment
9780198709718
$20.95
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Crime and Punishment

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  • A major new translation of Dostoyevsky's enduring classic by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, with editorial material by the UK's leading Dostoevsky expert, Dr Sarah J. Young
  • The introduction gives a brief biographical sketch of Dostoevsky, focusing on aspects of his life most pertinent to the writing of Crime and Punishment—his experience of prison and the criminals he met there, and his money troubles in the 1860s when he was working on the novel
  • Provides an assessment of critical trends and approaches to the novel, detailing the literary and historical context, with emphasis on the Petersburg setting as a literary theme and a contemporary social context
  • The list of characters includes information on pronunciation and the range of diminutives used to refer to each character
  • The selected bibliography gives an up-to-date survey of works on Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, and the historical and cultural contexts of the novel
  • Notes elucidate potentially obscure references in the text, and also connect the novel to the wider context of Dostoevsky's writing and 19th-century Russian culture, citing other classics of Russian literature and accessible secondary works
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Edited by Sarah J. Young, Senior Lecturer in Russian, University College London
Pride and Prejudice
9780190326555
$14.95
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Pride and Prejudice

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  • One of Austen's five major novels in a new, updated edition
  • Includes a new introduction from Christina Lupton focusing on the novel's rich and ever expanding reception history; on why it has been so beloved over the centuries, and on the culture of writing and book circulation in Austen's time
  • The introduction argues for the importance of thinking through what it means to read a book so well loved, and what the popularity of the book itself can tell us for the way its story encourages us to think about love
  • Updated notes, chronology, and bibliography
    Jane Austen

    Christina Lupton, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Warwick and Director, Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick, and Edited by James Kinsley
Frankenstein or `The Modern Prometheus'
9780198840824
$16.95
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Frankenstein

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  • A new edition of Mary Shelley's immensely powerful and iconic Gothic novel
  • An epic parable warning against the threats to humanity posed by accelerating technological progress
  • Nick Groom's fascinating introduction details the literary and historical context of Frankenstein, from the politics of human rights raised by the French Revolution, to approaches to maternity and women's writing, and Gothic engagement with science and technology
  • Considers the novel's contribution to contemporary debates in animal studies, identity politics, the environment, and changing definitions of the 'human'
  • Appendices of Mary Shelley's biographical introduction to the 1831 edition, the substantive changes made for that edition, and Percy Bysshe Shelley's own (anonymous) review of the novel
  • Up-to-date bibliography, extensive new biographical and cultural chronology, and revised explanatory notes
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    Edited by Nick Groom, Professor of English Literature, University of Exeter
Sense and Sensibility
9780198793359
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Sense and Sensibility

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  • One of Austen's five major novels in a new, updated edition
  • Includes a new introduction from John Mullan celebrating Austen's experimental use of dialogue and style, and her use of comedy
  • Updated notes, chronology, and bibliography
  • Mullan's reading seeks to remind us what an exciting and unusual novel Sense and Sensibility was DL and is
    Jane Austen

    Edited by John Mullan, Professor of English at University College London
Dracula
9780199564095
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Dracula

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  • A new edition of one of the greatest horror stories in English literature, the novel that spawned a myth and a proliferation of vampire franchises in film, television, graphic novels, cartoons, and teen fiction
  • Includes a lively and fascinating Introduction that considers Stoker's Irish heritage, the Gothic genre and vampire legend, sexual allegory, and the social and cultural contexts that feed into the novel: the New Woman, new technology, race, immigration, and religion
  • Chronology of Bram Stoker and Timeline of Vampire Literature before Dracula
  • Comprehensive Explanatory Notes flesh out vampire mythology and historical allusions
  • Includes an appendix featuring Stoker's short story, 'Dracula's Guest', an early draft or abandoned chapter that was not published as part of the novel
    Bram Stoker

    Edited by Roger Luckhurst, Professor of Modern Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London
The Ladies' Paradise
9780199536900
$27.95
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The Ladies' Paradise

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  • The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris
  • The store is a symbol of capitalism, the modern city, and the bourgeois family, and emblematic of changes in the sexual and social mores of the time
  • This new translation of the eleventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola's greatest works
    Émile Zola

    Translated with an introduction and notes by Brian Nelson
Little Women
9780199538119
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Little Women

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  • Little Women (1868-9) is the much-loved story of the four March sisters, growing up in New England, amid the difficulties of the Civil War. Poor, argumentative, loving, and optimistic, they learn to realise their dreams in often unexpected ways
    Louisa May Alcott

    Edited with an introduction and notes by Valerie Alderson
Five Plays
9780199536696
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Five Plays

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  • This volume contains English translations of: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, with a new Introduction by Ronald Hingley
    Anton Chekhov

    Translated with an introduction by Ronald Hingley

Hardback Collection

The Poetic Edda
9780198804970
$43.95
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The Poetic Edda

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  • An original translation of the famous collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the Poetic Edda
  • Appendix includes an alternative version of 'The Seeress's Prophecy'
  • Genealogies of gods, giants, and heroes, and an annoted Index of Names
    Carolyne Larrington

    Professor of Medieval European Literature and Official Fellow, St John's College, University of Oxford
Anna Karenina
9780198800538
$48.95
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Anna Karenina

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  • A major translation of Tolstoy's enduring classic, by the author of the acclaimed biography Tolstoy: A Russian Life (Profile, 2010)
  • The translation captures with unparalleled accuracy Tolstoy's style, meaning, and emotion. It is based on the best Russian text available, and enhanced by meticulous research
  • The introduction and notes are informed by Bartlett's intimate knowledge of Tolstoy's life, the contexts in which he wrote, and insight into his literary artistry and achievements
  • Includes a note on the translation, select bibliography, chronology of Tolstoy's life, list of characters, and guide to pronunciation
    Leo Tolstoy

    Translated by Rosamund Bartlett, British writer, scholar, lecturer, and translator specialising in Russian literature
Crime and Punishment
9780198709701
$44.95
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Crime and Punishment

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  • A major new translation of Dostoyevsky's enduring classic by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, with editorial material by the UK's leading Dostoevsky expert, Dr Sarah J. Young
  • Gives a brief biographical sketch of Dostoevsky, focusing on aspects of his life most pertinent to the writing of Crime and Punishment--his experience of prison and the criminals he met there, and his money troubles in the 1860s when he was working on the novel
  • Provides an assessment of critical trends and approaches to the novel, detailing the literary and historical context, with emphasis on the Petersburg setting as a literary theme and a contemporary social context
  • Notes elucidate potentially obscure references in the text, and also connect the novel to the wider context of Dostoevsky's writing and 19th-century Russian culture, citing other classics of Russian literature and accessible secondary works
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater , and edited by Sarah J. Young, Senior Lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College

William Shakespeare

The Tempest
9780192865878
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The Tempest

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  • Incorporates a wide range of approaches to shed light on the text's connections to colonialism and colonial resistance
  • Provides a 'deep context' approach that uses objects, manuscripts, and rare books to reconstruct the world of the play in Shakespeare's time and introduces readers to new perspectives on the play
  • Explores The Tempest's Jacobean context while examining how subsequent interpretations have explored gender, resistance, and illusion in new ways
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical apparatus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Edited by Lauren Working, Rory Loughnane, and Emma Smith
The Tragedy of Macbeth
9780199535835
$21.95
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The Tragedy of Macbeth

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  • Historically performed with elaborate operatic additions for over two centuries, showcasing its grandeur on stage
  • Nicholas Brooke's introduction explores the play's evolution in relation to societal and theatrical changes, delving into its enduring appeal and linguistic intricacies
  • The edition reexamines textual and staging challenges, evaluates past and present critical perspectives, and enhances our comprehension of Macbeth
    William Shakespeare

    Nicholas Brooke, is Emeritus Professor of English Literature
    at the University of East Anglia
Much Ado About Nothing
9780199536115
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Much Ado About Nothing

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  • Much Ado About Nothing is praised for its witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedick, making it one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable comedies
  • This edition includes a newly edited text and an insightful introduction by Sheldon P Zitner, focusing on minor characters and Shakespeare's adaptation of source material
  • Zitner reconsiders the play's attitudes towards gender relations and marriage, offering a socially analytic stage history that encourages reinterpretation by readers and performers
  • The edition advances new perspectives for both actors and critics, enriching the understanding and appreciation
    William Shakespeare

    Sheldon P. Zitner is Professor Emeritus, Trinity College, University of Toronto. He has written extensively on Renaissance Literature, including a recent book-length study of All's Well That Ends Well (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
9780199535866
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

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  • One of Shakespeare's most beloved plays, blending aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a magical woodland setting near Athens
  • Despite its seemingly simple plot, it showcases Shakespeare's literary and theatrical mastery, standing out for its originality and sophistication
  • Unlike many of Shakespeare's works, it doesn't draw directly from narrative sources, indicating a deep exploration of his imaginative concerns
  • Peter Holland's introduction delves into themes of dreams, shadows, and Shakespeare's construction of a mystical world. His commentary also highlights the play's rich performance history, showcasing its versatility in interpretation
    William Shakespeare

    Peter Holland is Wilson University Lecturer in Drama at the Faculty of English,
    Cambridge University
The History of King Lear
9780199535828
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The History of King Lear

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  • The new edition of King Lear is based on the quarto, offering a version closest to the original manuscript
  • The introduction delves into the play's origins, composition process, reception, and influence over time
  • Detailed notes focus on language nuances, staging considerations, and the inclusion of King Lear's first derivative, a contemporary ballad
  • The volume also provides guides to appreciating the play and exploring its various adaptations and influences
    William Shakespeare

    Stanley Wells ran the Oxford Shakespeare Department within OUP while the Complete Works was in preparation. He is a former Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Winter's Tale
9780199535910
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The Winter's Tale

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  • A Shakespeare's tragi-comedy, balancing tragic intensity with comic grace and featuring rich poetry
  • Explores realist psychology and comments on violence within family and friendship dynamics
  • Stephen Orgel's edition delves into Renaissance views on drama and family, tracks changing critical perspectives, and contextualizes the play within Jacobean culture and politics
  • Special attention is given to the play's linguistic complexity, and the edition includes a reprint of Shakespeare's source material by Robert Greene
    William Shakespeare

    Stephen Orgel is Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities at Stanford University
As You Like It
9780199536153
$18.95
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As You Like It

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  • A Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, featuring the witty and long role of Rosalind as its heroine
  • Alan Brissenden's edition reevaluates the play's textual and performance history, tracing changes in interpretations since its first recorded production in 1740
  • He explores Shakespeare's sources and discusses central themes such as love, pastoral life, and doubleness within the play
  • Detailed annotations in the edition analyse the play's allusive and sometimes bawdy language, providing insights for students, actors, and directors to appreciate the play's humor and depth
    William Shakespeare

    Alan Brissenden is Reader in English, University of Adelaide, Australia
Measure for Measure
9780199535842
$22.95
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Measure for Measure

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  • List of illustrations
  • General Introduction: Measure for Measure as a Jacobean play, Sources, The Play in Performance, The Play
  • Textual Introduction
  • Editorial Procedures
  • MEASURE FOR MEASURE
  • Appendix A: Longer Textual Notes
    Appendix B: Alterations to Lineation
    Appendix C: John Wilson's Setting of `Take, O Take'
  • Index to the Commentary
    William Shakespeare

    N. R. Bawcutt is Reader in English Literature, University of Liverpool

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park
9780199535538
$16.95
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Mansfield Park

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  • Fanny Price is taken to live at Mansfield Park, the home of her wealthy uncle. She gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund, but when the dazzling and sophisticated Crawfords arrive, and amateur theatricals unleash rivalry and sexual jealousy, Fanny has to fight to retain her independence
  • This new edition places Mansfield Park in its Regency context and elucidates the theatrical background that pervades the novel
    Jane Austen

    Jane Stabler is editor of the Longman Reader on Byron (1998) and the author of Burke to Byron, Barbauld to Baillie, 1790-1830 (2001) and Byron, Poetics and History (2002)
Persuasion
9780199535552
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Persuasion

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  • One of Austen's five major novels in a superb new edition
  • The standard Chapman/Kinsley text in a newly set typeface gives a more attractive appearance
  • The new introduction examines the novel in its historical moment in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, and how nations and individuals can escape from the past
  • The new notes are fuller and bring out Austen's extensive knowledge of the Navy and the novel's topicality
  • New chronology and bibliography provide up-to-date resources for further reading
  • Appendices on social rank, dancing and the navy, and the deleted chapter that was the original ending of Persuasion
    Jane Austen

    Deidre Shauna Lynch is the author of The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (1998) and editor of Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees (2000). an anthology of critical essays on the history of Austen's readerships
Sanditon
9780198840831
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Sanditon

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  • This edition includes an introduction, and notes and bibliography
  • An Introduction that emphasises what is experimental and new in Austen's last work in comparison to her previous novels
  • The text has been newly transcribed from the manuscript and draws upon the Oxford Edition of Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts, 5 vols. (OUP, 2018), which in turn is based on the digital edition of 2010; both edited by Kathryn Sutherland
  • The text draws on Austen's sister Cassandra Austen's transcription for specific editorial features in order to make the work accessible to the general reader and to highlight the novel's early history in family performance
  • The edition has full notes, identifying and explaining literary allusions, references to diseases and contemporary medical treatments, Regency fashions, quasi-specialist language, etc.
    Jane Austen

    Edited by Kathryn Sutherland, Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, St Anne's College, Oxford
Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
9780199535545
$20.95
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Northanger Abbey

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  • The best-value edition, combining Northanger Abbey with three minor works, two early, one late, showing her originality across the full range of her career
  • New introduction by Claudia L. Johnson reassesses received opinion about Northanger Abbey at the level of style as well as theme, and addresses recent critics as well as long established ones. Integrates for the first time the shorter, less-discussed works into the argument
  • Reset text has crisper appearance.
  • New, up-to-date bibliography, and new chronology by General Editor Vivien Jones (University of Leeds)
  • New and extensive notes in particular draw attention to the many subtle parodies of the Gothic genre
  • Appendices on social rank and dancing further contextualize the works
    Jane Austen

    Claudia L. Johnson, Edited by John Davie, and James Kinsley

Gothic Literature

The Castle of Otranto
9780198704447
$16.95
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The Castle of Otranto

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  • A new edition of one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels, the best introduction to the work that inaugurated a literary genre
  • Nick Groom's wide-ranging introduction explores the novel's Gothic context in the cultural movement that affected political and religious thinking before Walpole developed it as a literary style, helping to explain the novel's impact on contemporaries, its importance, and Walpole's pioneering innovations
  • Up-to-date bibliography and notes, drawing on the latest scholarship
  • Useful chronology of Walpole and the Gothic context
  • Appendix includes extracts from contemporary non-fiction by Walpole and Richard Hurd demonstrating the domestication of medieval Gothic for eighteenth-century readers that fed into The Castle of Otranto
    Horace Walpole

    Edited by Nick Groom, University of Exeter
A Sicilian Romance
9780199537396
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A Sicilian Romance

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  • Explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and covents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy
    Ann Radcliffe

    Edited with an introduction by Alison Milbank, John Rylands Research Institute Fellow, University of Manchester
The Italian
9780198704430
$22.95
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The Italian

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  • A new edition of one of the finest Gothic novels, and Radcliffe's most powerful example of 'terror' writing
  • In the monk Schedoni, Radcliffe creates one of her most sinister characters, and her fast-paced narrative ushers the reader into a shadowy world of mystery and mayhem and the horrors of the Inquisition
  • Nick Groom's fascinating introduction shows how Radcliffe blends contemporary debates on the status of women with issues of national identity in the wake of the French Revolution. It explores in detail the literary and historical contexts of the novel
  • Includes Radcliffe's important essay 'On the Supernatural in Poetry'
  • Up-to-date bibliography, fully contextualized chronology, extensive explanatory notes using contemporary sources and providing information on cultural sources, Shakespearean allusion, travel writing, theology, and contemporary reception
    Ann Radcliffe

    Edited by Nick Groom, University of Exeter
The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
9780198805106
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  • A new selection of Machen's core horror classics, a selection of his lesser-known prose poems and later tales helps to present a fuller picture of Machen's development
  • The first critical edition to include the complete novel The Three Impostors underpinned by scholarly research
  • Includes a chronology, bibliography, and notes to provide additional contextual interest
  • Machen's influence extends from H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and the fantasy cinema of Guillermo del Toro
    Arthur Machen

    Edited by Aaron Worth, Associate Professor, Rhetoric, Boston Universit

Classical Literature

The Odyssey
9780199536788
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  • A famous and well-admired translation by Walter Shewring, which comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language
  • With an introduction explaining the significance of the work to Greek literature and literature as a whole, the features that characterise Homers writing style, and the links between the work and the Trojan War
  • Includes a glossary and index of names to help the reader unfamiliar with Greek literature follow the events and characters
  • Includes several maps linking the literary events with real locations
    Homer

    Translated by Walter Shewring and with an introduction by G. S. Kirk
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra
9780199537174
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Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra

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  • Includes three of Sophocles’ most famous tragedies: Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Electra. These plays are central to the canon of Greek tragedy and explore themes of fate, family, and morality
  • The translations by H. D. F. Kitto and edited by Edith Hall are noted for their clarity and modernity, making the ancient texts accessible and engaging for contemporary readers
  • Providing context and analysis of the plays, it also features extensive notes, up-to-date bibliographies, and other scholarly tools to aid in understanding the texts
    Sophocles

    Translated by H. D. F. Kitto and edited with an introduction and notes by Edith Hall, Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading
The Peloponnesian War
9780192821911
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  • A major new translation of the greatest ancient historian, Thucydides' brilliant account of the disastrous war waged by Athens against Sparta, with full supporting material making this the most comprehensive single-volume edition in print
  • Translation by gifted translator Martin Hammond captures the brilliance and complexity of Thucydides' prose
  • Introduction and notes by an acknowledged authority on ancient Greek history and politics, P. J. Rhodes
  • Includes summaries of individual Books, textual notes, appendix on weights, measures and distances, money, calendars, up-to-date bibliography
  • Comprehensive analytical index
  • Ten maps
    Thucydides

    Translated by Martin Hammond, retired Headmaster of Tonbridge School

    Introduction and Notes by P. J. Rhodes, Honorary Professor and Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, University of Durham
The Nicomachean Ethics
9780199213610
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  • Widely admired translation, sparingly revised to retain its qualities while paying special attention to key terms, enhancing understanding, eliminating unintentional ambiguity, and incorporating the latest scholarly thinking
  • Invaluable introduction covers Aristotle's life and writings, the key notions in the Ethics and how they work together in Aristotle's theory; the relevance of the work to modern ethical theory, showing its influences and differences
  • Explanatory Notes elucidate meaning, allusions, and Aristotle's arguments
  • Glossary of Key Terms
  • Index
    Aristotle

    Translated by David Ross

    Edited by Lesley Brown, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Somerville College Oxford
Republic
9780199535767
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  • A new translation of the central work of one of the West's greatest philosophers
  • Complemented by full explanatory notes and an up-to-date critical introduction
    Plato

    Translated with introduction and notes by Robin Waterfield, British classical scholar, translator, editor, and writer of children's fiction
Aeneid
9780199231959
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  • A new verse translation of Virgil's Aeneid, the only one to use the same poetic metre as Virgil and to explore the subtleties of Virgil's wordplay
  • Ahl's translation captures the excitement and drama of the original and is both more accurate and more readable than other existing translations
  • The edition includes comprehensive annotation and a valuable indexed glossary which can be used equally well with the Latin original
  • Includes an up-to-date bibliography, maps, and genealogies
    Virgil

    Frederick Ahl is a professor of classics and comparative literature at Cornell University
Metamorphoses
9780199537372
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  • An accessible and modern translation
  • Includes comprehensive explanatory notes, making the poetic verse accessible and revealing contextual and literary features
  • Contains a glossary and index of names to help the reader follow the developments and characters in the text
  • Includes a bibliography
    Ovid

    Translated by A. D. Melville and Edited with introduction and notes by E. J. Kenney
Lives of the Caesars
9780199537563
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  • Includes detailed biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian
  • Suetonius is known for his lively and provocative writing style, focusing on anecdotal and often scandalous details rather than purely historical analysis
  • The format and style of Suetonius’ work set the tone for biography in Western literature, making it a significant historical document
    Suetonius

    Translated with introduction and notes by Catharine Edwards, Department of Classics, University of Bristol

Modernist Literature

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
9780199537099
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  • The first new English translation of Nietzsche's most popular book for forty years
  • Addresses the problem of how to live a fulfilling life in the aftermath of 'the death of God' and it is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy, and has inspired composers as well as other writers
  • The introduction examines the work's three most important philosophical ideas, the Overhuman, will to power, and eternal recurrence, the narrative of the book, its inspiration and its influence
  • The notes situate the text with respect to the major texts and authors with which the work is in constant conversation and the edition is more fully annotated than any other version
    Friedrich Nietzsche

    Translated with an Introduction & Notes by Graham Parkes, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Vienna
The Picture of Dorian Gray
9780199535989
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  • 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 show important variants
  • Full explanatory notes identify Wilde's sources
  • Up-to-date bibliography
    Oscar Wilde

    Edited by Joseph Bristow, Professor of English literature at UCLA
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
9780199535972
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  • A newly edited volume of some of Wilde's greatest plays
  • Includes arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Modernszed spelling and punctuation
  • A scholarly introduction and detailed annotation
    Oscar Wilde

    Edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Raby, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Drama Department at Homerton College, Cambridge
Great Expectations
9780199219766
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  • Features memorable characters such as the convict Magwitch, the mysterious Miss Havisham and her proud ward Estella. Widely adapted for film and television, the story attracts readers of all ages
  • This edition reprints the authoritative text of the Clarendon edition, correcting both original printer's errors and later textual corruptions, and retains facsimiles of the original title-pages for each of the three volumes of the 1861 editiong
  • Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's new introduction ranges widely across critical issues raised by the novel: its biographical genesis, the effect of the past on the present, ideas of origin and progress and what makes a 'gentleman', memory, melodrama, and the book's critical reception
  • Four appendices: the original ending to the novel; the different chapter numbering in the serial version; Dickens's working notes; two pages from the theatrical adaptation of the novel made by, or with the approval of, Dickens
  • The fullest set of critical notes in any mass-market edition
    Charles Dickens

    Translated by David Ross

    Edited by Margaret Cardwell, Reader in English at Queen's College, Belfast

    Introduction and Notes by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford University
Middlemarch
9780198815518
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  • The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch is about living with (rather than defended from) others, about growing up, losing one's ideals - and finding them again
  • A new introduction which accounts for the famous wisdom of the novel, explaining how and why it so profoundly addresses the question of how to live
  • Contains a fully up-to-date bibliography of further reading
  • The definitive Clarendon text
    George Eliot

    Edited by David Carroll, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, and David Russell, Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow, University of Oxford
The Moonstone
9780198819394
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  • New introduction, select bibliography and explanatory notes
  • The Introduction and Notes take into account the enormous amount of new material previously unavailable, including Collins's Letters, searchable periodicals, and publication of manuscript material
  • Three appendices provide a cartoon reaction to the conclusion of the novel in 1875; a detailed review of the dramatised version in 1877; and the long letter of advice that Collins received about how to manage the end of the novel
    Wilkie Collins

    Edited by Francis O'Gorman, Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh
Mrs Dalloway
9780199536009
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  • Equipped with detailed explanatory notes, the title features a select bibliography for further reading, a chronology of Woolf’s life and works, and additional appendices
    Virginia Woolf

    Edited by David Bradshaw, Professor of English, Worcester College, Oxford
To the Lighthouse
9780199536610
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  • To the Lighthouse is Woolf's most autobiographical and best-known novel, and this new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of its appeal
  • David Bradshaw is a well-known and respected Woolf scholar whose OWC edition of Mrs Dalloway has been widely praised by academics and general readers alike
  • The Introduction discusses the autobiographical parallels, Woolf's potrayal of her parents, the social and political contexts, the metaphor of damp, Woolf's technique and modernism and includes new material on the novel's setting on the Isle of Skye
  • Full and up-to-date bibliography
  • Thorough notes include illuminating quotations from Woolf's manuscript and autobiographical writings to point up real-life parallels and literary allusions
    Virginia Woolf

    Edited by David Bradshaw, Professor of English, Worcester College, Oxford

Romantic Literature

The Sorrows of Young Werther
9780199583027
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  • A new translation of the novel that made Goethe's name, the tragic account of a passionate infatuation, featuring the archetypal Romantic hero, that created a sensation on first publication
  • Translated with lyric precision and sensitivity by the award-winning author and poet, David Constantine
  • Critical introduction discusses the autobiographical background, the novel's epistolary form and structure, and the novel's reception and afterlife
  • Explanatory notes gloss contemporary allusions, literary references, and the autobiographical parallels
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Translated by David Constantine, a respected translator and poet, and the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award for 2010
Candide and Other Stories
9780199535613
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Candide and Other Stories

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  • This well-established selection of Voltaire's philosophical stories is now updated and expanded to include the verse tale What Pleases the Ladies
  • The most extensive one-volume selection currently available
  • Revised introduction reflects recent critical debates and includes a new section on Voltaire's verse tales, increasingly seen as belonging with his prose tales
  • Revised notes and updated bibliography
    Voltaire

    Translated by Roger Pearson, University Lecturer in French Fellow and Tutor in French University of Oxford
Wuthering Heights
9780198834786
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Wuthering Heights

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  • An introduction which moves beyond the cliché of Emily Brontë as an untutored genius in order to show her deep understanding of literary tradition as well as her experience in visual art and music
  • Uses the 1976 Clarendon text, with restored the punctuation of the 1847 text
  • Appendices include original reviews of the novel, Charlotte Brontë's three prefacing documents from the 1850 edition, and a selection of Emily Brontë's poetry
  • Features a revised version of the 1976 Clarendon text, along with updated annotations, and a new introduction that situates Brontë's novel within the broader context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, and brings fresh attention to how Heathcliff's ambiguous ethnicity impacts familiar novelistic discourses of sympathy
    Emily Brontë

    Edited by John Bugg, Professor in the Department of English at Fordham University in New York City
The Flowers of Evil
9780199535583
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  • Restores the six poems that were banned in France for nearly a century, providing a complete collection of Baudelaire’s work
  • Offers insights into Baudelaire’s vision and the significance of his work, emphasising his role beyond just a poet of the modern city
  • Includes explanatory notes that clarify the text and provide context, making the poems more accessible to modern readers
  • Features a select bibliography and a chronology of Baudelaire’s life, aiding further study and understanding of the poet and his work
    Charles Baudelaire

    Translated from French by James N McGowan and with an introduction by JJonathan Culler
The Confessions
9780199537822
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  • The first new English translation in thirty years of this classic spiritual journey
  • The most complete and informative notes of any recent translation, and includes an introduction to establish the context
  • Edited by an eminent scholar of early Christianity
    Saint Augustine

    Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Henry Chadwick

Renaissance and Elizabethan Drama

Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
9780199537068
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Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

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  • Includes Marlowe’s five major plays: Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, and Doctor Faustus
  • Presents both the A- and B-texts, highlighting the significant differences between the two versions
  • The plays are newly edited with modernised spelling and punctuation for easier reading
  • Features a detailed introduction and extensive annotations by editors David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen, providing context and insights into the plays
    Christopher Marlowe

    Edited by David Bevington, Professor of English, University of Chicago, and Eric Rasmussen, Assistant Professor of English, University of Nevada, Reno
Four Major Plays
9780199536191
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Four Major Plays

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  • Contains A Doll’s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder
  • The plays are edited with modernised spelling and punctuation for contemporary readers
  • Features an insightful introduction and extensive annotations by James McFarlane and Jens Arup, providing context and analysis
    Henrik Ibsen

    Translated by James McFarlane, Jens Arup, and With an introduction by James McFarlane

Religious Texts

The Bible: Authorized King James Version
9780199535941
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The Bible

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  • Includes the latest biblical research, evaluated and put into context as well as discussing centuries of critical opinion
  • Includes a Glossary of terms used in the Notes and six maps of the Holy Land
    Oxford Bible

    Edited with introduction and notes by Robert Carroll, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Semantic Studies, University of Glasgow and Stephen Prickett, Regius Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow
The Qur'an
9780199535958
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  • A major new translation of the supreme authority in Islam, published at a time of intense interest in the Islamic religion and the Muslim world
  • Provides notes that explain geographical and historical
  • Concludes with an index that arranges Qur'anic material into topics for easy reference
    Translated by Abdel Haleem

    Egyptian Islamic studies scholar and the King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies at the SOAS University of London
The Koran
9780199537327
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The Koran

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  • A. J. Arberry’s translation is renowned for its accuracy and literary quality, aiming to convey the original’s sublime rhetoric and intricate rhythms
  • Features an insightful introduction and extensive notes that provide historical context, explain key themes, and clarify complex passages
    Translated by Arthur J. Arberry, British scholar of Arabic literature, Persian studies, and Islamic studies

Philosophical Works

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
9780198786191
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Groundwork for the Metaphysics

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  • A clear introduction provides an overview of Kant's argument in the text, and an assessment of its legacy
  • The editorial notes provide succinct information on Kant's references and allusions, and also discussion of the linguistic and philosophical issues raised by parts of the text
  • An up-to-date bibliography of key works on Kant and the Groundwork
    Immanuel Kant

    Translated by Christopher Bennett, Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, Joe Saunders, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, and Robert Stern, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield
Walden
9780199538065
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Walden

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  • Includes ecological appendix, maps, and comprehensive annotatione
    Henry David Thoreau

    Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Fender, Professor of American Studies and Director of the Graduate Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Sussex
On the Origin of Species
9780199219223
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On the Origin of Species

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  • Charles Darwin revolutionised our ideas about the natural world and our place in it by introducing the concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest, and his ideas still provoke controversy today
  • Editor Gillian Beer has writtten extensively about Darwin and about scientific writing in its cultural context. Her wide-ranging introduction considers the development of Darwin's ideas, the scientific context, the nature of his theories and the impact of his work on his contemporaries
  • Includes a Register of Writers referred to in the text of the Origin, a Glossary of Scientific Terms and an Index
    Charles Darwin

    Edited by Gillian Beer, Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
9780199670802
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On Liberty, Utilitarianism

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  • A revised edition of the best single-volume compilation of Mill's principal works, including a new introduction, expanded notes, and an index for the first time
  • Contains the four central essays for understanding John Stuart Mill's Liberalism
  • Up-to-date bibliography and thorough annotation
  • A comprehensive index
    John Stuart Mill

    Edited by Mark Philp, Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and Frederick Rosen, University College London

Psychological and Sociological Works

The Interpretation of Dreams
9780199537587
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  • Joyce Crick’s translation is based on the original 1899 text, offering a more readable and accurate version of Freud’s work
  • This edition emphasises Freud’s central ideas about dreams as wish-fulfillment, the manifest and latent content of dreams, and the continuation of dreamwork through retelling
  • Includes an insightful introduction and extensive notes by Ritchie Robertson, providing historical context and clarifying difficult passages
    Sigmund Freud

    Translated by Joyce Crick and Edited with an introduction by Ritchie Robertson
The Interpretation of Dreams
9780198797951
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  • The only dream-book which has been preserved from classical antiquity
  • Provides an engaging introduction to the history of dreams and dream-interpretation in Greco-Roman antiquity
  • Explanatory Notes elucidate meaning, allusions, and Artemidorus' arguments
    Artemidorus

    Edited by Peter Thonemann, Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Wadham College, Oxford
About Love and Other Stories
9780199536689
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About Love and Other Stories

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  • A unique collection of Chekhov's most lyrical stories in a new translation of great skill and originality, published to coincide with the centenary of Chekhov's death
  • This translation aims to capture Chekhov's musicality and modernism by paying special attention to his tone and prose rhythm - closer to the Russian while shaping the prose idiomatically
  • The stories are arranged chronologically to show the evolution of Chekhov's art and include familiar as well as less well-known works
    Anton Chekhov

    Translated by Rosamund Bartlett, British writer, scholar, lecturer, and translator specialising in Russian literature

Historical and Biographical Works

The Satires
9780199540662
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  • Includes all sixteen of Juvenal’s satires, offering a complete view of his work
  • Translated by Niall Rudd, known for capturing Juvenal’s mix of rhetoric and wit, making the text lively and engaging
  • Features an insightful introduction and extensive notes by William Barr, providing historical and literary context
    Juvenal

    Translated by Niall Rudd, Professor Emeritus of Latin, University of Bristol

    With introduction and notes by William Barr, formerly Senior Lecturer in Latin, University of Liverpool
The Library, Books 16-20 Philip II
9780198759881
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The Library, Books 16-20 Philip II

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  • The first translation of the Library for over fifty years, by the acknowledged best contemporary translator of ancient Greek prose
  • A fluent and readable translation accompanied by textual notes, glossary, chronologies, maps, and an index of proper names
  • A comprehensive introduction covering Diodorus' life and times, examining the kind of universal history he was intending to write, his use of his sources, and his moralizing tendency, and assesses his value as a historian
  • Explanatory notes forming an introduction to the history of the period, and point out when Diodorus needs factual corrections
    Diodorus Siculus

    Translated by Robin Waterfield, independent scholar and translator
Roman Lives
9780199537389
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Roman Lives

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  • Includes biographies of significant Roman figures such as Pompey, Julius Caesar, and others, providing a comprehensive look at classical Rome
  • The text is known for its elegant prose and Plutarch’s natural storytelling ability, making historical events engaging and accessible
  • This edition includes a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps, and indexes
    Plutarch

    Translated by Robin Waterfield and Introduction and Notes by Philip A. Stadter, Falk Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
9780199642212
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  • Combines two of Woolf’s most influential works which are foundational texts in feminist literature
  • Includes an insightful introduction, explanatory notes, and a bibliography, providing context and enhancing the reader’s understanding of Woolf’s arguments
    Virginia Woolf

    Edited by Anna Snaith, King's College London

Poetry and Short Stories

The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories
9780199538843
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The Yellow Wall-Paper

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  • Includes the fullest selection of Gilman’s short fiction ever printed
  • The stories delve into themes of depression, insanity, and social reform, drawing on Gilman’s own experiences and her views on women’s roles in society
  • Includes an insightful introduction, explanatory notes, and up-to-date bibliographies
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Edited with an Introduction by Robert Shulman, Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle
William Blake: Selected Poetry
9780198804468
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William Blake: Selected Poetry

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  • A new selection of the poetry of William Blake -- largely ignored in his lifetime, but now recognised as a unique and haunting lyricist, and one of the key voices of the Romantic Age.
  • Arranges Blake's poems by genre, looking at his lyrics, short epics, sublime epics, and satirical and discursive works in turn
  • Nicholas Shrimpton's introduction and explanatory notes consider modern Blake scholarship, his position as one of the defining English poets, his juvenilia, and the distinct genres of his work
  • Includes an up-to-date bibliography, a chronology, and a substantial note on the text
    William Blake

    Edited by Nicholas Shrimpton, Fellow and Tutor in English Literature, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
The Major Works
9780199536863
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The Major Works

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  • The poems are presented in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state, allowing readers to trace Wordsworth’s poetic development
  • Features significant works such as The Prelude, Lyrical Ballads, The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, and Peter Bell
  • Includes an insightful introduction and extensive notes that provide context and analysis
    William Wordsworth

    Edited by Stephen Gill, Professor of English literature at Oxford University, Fellow of Lincoln College, and Editor of Selected Poems by William Wordsworth