Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry

As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798) and was by turns dramatist,

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Selected Poetry

This selection, chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition of Keats's major works, demonstrates the remarkable growth in maturity of his verse, from early poems

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Daisy Miller and Other Stories

This volume includes Daisy Miller, Pandora, The Patagonia, and Four Meetings

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A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings

Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

The only critically established text of the novel, based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and Hardy's extensive revisions. Pamela Dalziel's new introduction incorporates

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Far from the Madding Crowd

Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young

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The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction

The thrill Woolf got from these stories is readily apparent to the reader. She wrote them in defiance of convention, with a heady feeling of

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Selected Poetry

Wordsworth's verse declares a belief in the power of poetry to teach by appealing to the imagination and to the `grand elementary principle of pleasure,

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Edgar Allan Poe - Selected Tales

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have

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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon

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

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Heart of Darkness and Other Tales

The finest of all Conrad's tales, 'Heart of Darkness' is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up

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Selected Poetry

The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a passionate supporter of the

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The Complete Short Stories

Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. They

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On Liberty and Other Essays

Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The  Subjection of Women show Mill applying

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Complete Poetry

A powerful poem of universal guilt and a protest against capital punishment, The Ballad of Reading Gaol is Wilde's best-known poem, yet it is quite

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The Thirty-Nine Steps

The best-known of Buchan's thrillers, The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since first publication and has been filmed three times, most notably by

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Dracula

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

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A Tale of Two Cities

As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval.

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Selected Poetry

By turns a haunting lyricist, an apocalyptic visionary, and an unorthodox thinker, Blake was for years ignored or derided. Sustained by his belief in the

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In a Glass Darkly

Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as `The Invisible Prince'

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Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

This selection of 21 stories represents the best of James's work, and includes three stories which are not in the Collected Edition

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

New introduction by Penny Boumelha describes the novel's controversial publication, the figure of Tess,class, and nature, and the female body, in an original and compelling

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North and South

North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman,

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Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings

Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution his Rights of Man

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Fashion: A Very Short Introduction

This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and manifestations. Fashion is explored as a creative force, a business, and a means of communication. From Karl Lagerfeld's

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last novel, lay unfinished at his death. Speculation remains rife as to its probably conclusion evidence suggests that, fascinated

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours.

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Paradise Lost

Well established text taken from the same editors edition of Milton's Major Works which was previously published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series Excellent new

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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned

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The Woman in White

The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into

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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre

John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and

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The Mill on the Floss

`But it's bad - it's bad,' Mr Tulliver added - `a woman's no business wi' being so clever it'll turn to trouble, I doubt.'Rebellious and

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The Moonstone

A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many

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Little Women

Set in a small New England community, it tells of the March family: Marmee looks after daughters in the absence of her husband, who is

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The Canterbury Tales

David Wright's acclaimed translation, now partnered with a new critical introduction and invaluable notes by Chaucer scholar Christopher Cannon to make it the best edition

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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Cleland's critics too condemned the 'infamous' and 'poisonous' novel when it first appeared in 1748-9. But the proliferation of editions, adaptations, and translations since then

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Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Game theory has seen spectacular successes in evolutionary biology and economics, and is beginning to revolutionize other disciplines from psychology to political science. This Very Short

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Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction

Despite important advances, clinical applications of stem cells are still in their infancy. Most real stem cell therapy today is some form of bone marrow

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Emotion: A Very Short Introduction

Was love invented by European poets in the Middle Ages or is it part of human nature? Will winning the lottery really make you happy?

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Probability: A Very Short Introduction

Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty - which is the norm - requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. As analysis

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The Pilgrim's Progress

The only complete text in paperback, including all the marginal notes of the original, in original spelling.The first edition to include all the original illustrations

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Memory: A Very Short Introduction

This book brings together the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, and weaves in case-studies, anecdotes, and even literature and philosophy, to address these and

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Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book gives readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness

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African Religions: A Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction offers a wide-ranging look at the myriad indigenous religious traditions on the African continent. Drawing on archeological research, historical evidence, ethnographic studies, and

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Anxiety: A Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction draws on the best scientific research to offer a highly accessible explanation of what anxiety is, why it is such a normal and

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Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

For complex cultural and historical reasons, ethics has not received as much attention in traditional Buddhist thought as it has in the West, and publications

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Film Music: A Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction provides a lucid, accessible, and engaging overview of the subject of film music. Beginning with an analysis of the music from

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Happiness: A Very Short Introduction

In this Very Short Introduction, Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happiness. By examining what it is, assessing its importance in our lives, and how

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Madness: A Very Short Introduction

Madness profoundly disturbs our common sense assumptions threatens the social order, both symbolically and practically creates almost unbearable disruptions in the texture of daily living

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Forensic Science: A Very Short Introduction

In forensic science, a criminal case can often hinge on a piece of evidence such as a hair, a blood trace, half a footprint, or

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Racism: A Very Short Introduction

Racism: A Very Short Introduction incorporates the latest research to demystify the subject of racism and explore its history, science, and culture. It sheds light not

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David Copperfield

Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse, and in the

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Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction

Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare?

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Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction

Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in

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Free Will: A Very Short Introduction

Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - some of them trivial, and some so consequential that they

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Magic: A Very Short Introduction

Defining 'magic' is a maddening task. Over the last century numerous philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and theologians have attempted to pin down its essential meaning, sometimes

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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction

Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to modern thought: its investigation of culture as a distinctively human characteristic, its

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Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

`Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size but, for

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The Brain: A Very Short Introduction

In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of

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