Oxford world's classics

Presents the text of Shakespeare's play in which Viola, having disguised herself as a man, falls in love with her employer, Duke Orsino, while Olivia, the object of Orsino's attentions, is attracted to Viola, believing her to be male.

William Shakespeare's classic drama of murder and political ambition; and contains commentary, explanatory notes, and introduction.

Presents an authoritative text of Shakespeare's classic play "Othello," and contains explanatory and textual notes, introduction and commentary, and detailed performance history.

Presents William Shakespeare's tragedy in which a king foolishly disinherits his favorite child when she speaks out against him and splits his kingdom between the daughters who are plotting against him; and includes explanatory notes and an introduction on the play's sources, language, composition, and performance.

Presents William Shakespeare's poetry, as well as works attributed to him in the seventeenth century, with extensive notes throughout, as well as an introduction discussing, among other topics, the mysterious "Dark Lady" of the sonnets.

Collects twenty-four of American author Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, including famous and lesser-known horror tales as well as detective stories, metaphysical tales, and political satire. Provides an introduction and explanatory notes.

A collection of seven stories by noted author Jack London including "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang," and contains textual and explanatory notes as well as chronology of the author.

A collection of stories about animals, explaining such mysteries as why camels, leopards, elephants, and armadillos look the way they do.

Presents the "Jungle Books," Rudyard Kipling's classic children's stories featuring such characters as Baloo the bear, Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose, and Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves, and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and the first Mowgli story, "In the Rukh," which was published before the "Jungle Books.".