Oxford world's classics

A collection of poems and prose by nineteenth-century author Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Contains four short stories concerned with illusions, romanticism, and scepticism written in the late nineteenth century by author Joseph Conrad including "Heart of Darkness," the story of a perplexing and horrifying journey into the heart of Africa.

Robert Moore is a harsh mill-owner who pushes his workers so far that one of them tries to kill him. While dealing with the attempt on his life, Robert is also confronted with two very different women. One of whom is Caroline Helstone, a shy girl virtually imprisoned in her uncle's rectory and in love with Robert. The other is Shirley, a wealthy, outgoing woman who reject's Robert's self-seeking offer of marriage.

Abel, a poet and political exile, arrives at a savage village in South America where he becomes a naturalist, and he falls in love with a mysterious girl in the forest.

Presents Louisa May Alcott's classic novel that tells the story of the joys and sorrows of the March family in New England during the Civil War; contains introduction, textual and explanatory notes, and chronology.