Oxford world's classics

A collection of short stories by Franz Kafka in a new English translation featuring the well-known title story about a man who wakes up to find that he has turned into a giant insect. Other stories in the collection explore themes of power, whimsy, and Kafka's own difficult relationship with his father. An introduction, notes, and a chronology provide context for the stories.

Presents an English translation of the Greek text which provides an account of the people and events involved in the long conflict between Athens and Sparta.

Presents an English translation of a French novel by early nineteenth-century author Honore Balzac in which Pere Goirot, a man who has risen from laborer to prosperous merchant, is rejected by his daughters and his community when his fortune wanes.

Presents Edward Bellamy's novel about a Boston aristocrat who falls asleep in 1887 and awakes in the year 2000, finding himself in a socialist utopia; and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, a bibliography, and a Bellamy chronology.

Presents three utopian works of literature from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Thomas More's satirical piece that originated the concept of utopia; Francis Bacon's fictional "New Atlantis"; and Henry Neville's fable "The Isle of Pines.".