Oxford world's classics

An autobiographical account by the runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles his experiences with his owners and overseers, and discusses how slavery affected both slaves and slaveholders; and contains introduction, textual and explanatory notes, and chronology.

Carlyle's authoritative account of the French Revolution with depictions of the events, heroes, and villains of the era along with its historical impact.

After a nineteenth-century man suffers a head injury, he find himself in sixth-century England and begins to modernize King Arthur's kingdom with a school system, telephone lines, and the printing press.

After Martians land on Earth just outside of London in the late nineteenth century, an Englishman tries to find his wife while the British military and human technology fail in their efforts to stop the Martians, which have begun to kill and feed off of humans.

Tells the story of Hawkeye, a frontier scout, who risks his life to escort two sisters through hostile Indian territory during the French and Indian War.

Victims of a shipwreck in the Pacific discover an island ruled by an ominous scientist who performs ghastly genetic experiments which change animals into grotesque, partially human creatures.

The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.

Contains the seventeenth-century text in which Locke explores the origin and history of human ideas, and includes the notion that all human ideas take root in sensation and reflection, expounding upon the connection between ideas and verbal signs, and he investigates the the nature of human understanding.