Oxford World's Classics

Animal Farm

George Orwell, David Dwan

9780198813736
Paperback
January 2021

Oxford World's Classics

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality.

Coming Up for Air

George Orwell, Marina MacKay

9780198804819
Paperback
January 2021

Oxford World's Classics

Set at the beginning of the Second World War, Coming Up for Air describes suburban insurance agent George Bowling's return to his birthplace, a sedate Oxfordshire village. This new edition of one of George Orwell's early pre-war works explores the historical and political context of the novel.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

George Orwell, Benjamin Kohlmann

9780198858317
Paperback
January 2021

Oxford World's Classics

"Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success." Gordon Comstock decides to live in poverty rather than compromise with the 'money god'. Disgusted by society's materialism, he leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet.

A Clergyman's Daughter

George Orwell, Nathan Waddell

9780198848424
Paperback
January 2021

Oxford World's Classics

The most formally experimental of all of George Orwell's novels, A Clergyman's Daughter charts the course of a young woman's voyage out of a small town in East Anglia and her eventual homecoming. This new edition of the novel is the first in over 30 years.

Burmese Days

George Orwell, Rosinka Chaudhuri

9780198853701
Paperback
January 2021

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Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel is set during the end days of British colonialism, when Burma is ruled from Delhi as part of British India.

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell, Lisa Mullen

9780198838418
Paperback
January 2021

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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War. It was the last and most mature of Orwell's documentary books.

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell, John Brannigan

9780198835219
Paperback
January 2021

Oxford World's Classics

This new edition of Orwell's 1933 text comes with an authoratative introduction, explanatory notes, and a select bibliography to help first-time readers situate the novel in it's contexts and offer a fresh new re-evaluation of the work to returning readers.

Selected Essays

George Orwell, Stefan Collini

9780198804178
Paperback
January 2021

Oxford World's Classics

Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known than any of his other writings apart from Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell, Selina Todd

9780198850908
Paperback
January 2021

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The Road to Wigan Pier is Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England.

Exiles

James Joyce, Keri Walsh

9780198800064
Paperback
December 2020

Oxford World's Classics

James Joyce's only surviving play has divided Joyceans for a century. Illuminating the themes of performance that are so prominent throughout Joyce's fiction, Exiles sees Joyce staking his claim definitively within the European theatrical tradition.

Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

Gideon Nisbet

9780198854654
Paperback
November 2020

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This selection of more than 600 epigrams in verse is the first major translation from the Greek Anthology in nearly a century. Each of the Anthology's books of epigrams is represented here, in manuscript order, and with extensive notes on the history and myth that lie behind them.

The Duke's Children Complete: Extended edition

Anthony Trollope, Steven Amarnick

9780198835875
Paperback
October 2020

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The Duke's Children is a novel about sorrow and loss, and about a parent s pained discovery that our children inevitably grow to love us less than we love them.

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Jack Lynch, Celia Barnes

9780198798743
Paperback
October 2020

Oxford World's Classics

Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides form a natural pair for an OWC because both books, often read and taught alongside each other, focus on the Scottish highlands.

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë, John Bugg

9780198834786
Paperback
September 2020

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Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language, and a potent tale of revenge. This new edition explores its extraordinary power and unique style and narrative structure, and includes a selection of poems by Emily Brontë.

Doctor Pascal

Émile Zola, Julie Rose, Brian Nelson

9780198746164
Paperback
August 2020

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Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart series. Pascal Rougon has spent his life chronicling the hereditary patterns and illnesses of his family, using medicine to attempt cures, whilst his niece Clotilde places her faith in God.

Anecdotes and Antidotes: A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians

Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah, Henrietta Sharp Cockrell, Geert Jan van Gelder

9780198827924
Paperback
June 2020

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Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah was a Syrian Arab physician of the 13th century who compiled a biographical encyclopedia of notable physicians, and scholars from the Greeks, Romans, Syriacs and Indians including Galen and Avicenna.

Green Tea: and Other Weird Stories

J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Aaron Worth

9780198835882
Paperback
June 2020

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A landmark edition of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's shorter fiction, the form at which he most excelled

The Essential Mòzǐ: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings

Mo Zi, Chris Fraser

9780198848103
Paperback
June 2020

Oxford World's Classics

An abridged translation of the influential classical Chinese text Mòzi covering the ethical and political writings and the dialectical texts.

This Side of Paradise

Second Edition

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Philip McGowan

9780198848110
Paperback
May 2020

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This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine as he grows from pampered childhood to young adulthood, and learns to know himself better. F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, it made him instantly famous and stamped him as the bard of the Jazz Age.

Nana

Second Edition

Émile Zola, Helen Constantine, Brian Nelson

9780198814269
Paperback
March 2020

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Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan élite, was la Ville Lumière, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siècle moral corruption.