Oxford world's classics

This is a lively, readable and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers. The volume includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Medea, Trojan Women, Hercules Furens, and Thyestes, together with an invaluable introduction and notes.

A selection from the "Canterbury Tales," in which members of a company of pilgrims discuss their lives and adventures while on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury.

A collection of war stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling, including an introduction and notes by Andrew Rutherford.

Autobiographical account of Henry Adams, a descendant of the well-known Boston family, who became a famous historian of the nineteenth century.

The Black educator documents his struggle for freedom and self-respect and his fight to establish industrial training programs.

Presents Hardy's classic novel of two people caught up in their passion for each other and conflicting ambitions.

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.

Presents nineteenth-century American author Henry David Thoreau's reflections on living alone among nature for two years on Walden Pond in Massachusetts, and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and an ecological appendix.