Oxford world's classics

Presents the holy scriptures of the Muslim faith, as revealed through Muhammad, the last Prophet of Islam, and contains the supreme authority in Islam and the source of all Islamic teaching.

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.

Homer's classical account of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans from Agamemnon's visit by the priest Chryses to the burial of Hektor.

Presents the 1855 autobiography of Frederick Douglass, telling of his experiences as a slave and discussing his life after he was able to escape to freedom.

Includes nine short sories by Herman Melville as well as notes on the texts, a chronology of Herman Melville, and a bibliography.

Collects lectures by philosopher and psychologist William James in which he discusses the religious experiences of individuals from various cultures and eras and explores how religion enriches human life.

Presents Austen's novel in which Fanny, a girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by an unprincipled London girl; and includes explanatory notes and appendices on social status, dancing, the British Navy, and the play "Lovers' Vows.".

Charles Darwin explains his theories of evolution by natural selection.