Oxford world's classics

A translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic novel "The Brothers Karamazov" about the four Karamazov brothers who all become involved in the brutal murder of their father; and contains explanatory notes, time chart, chronology, and lists of characters.

Raskolnikov, a former Russian student, murders an old pawnbroker and her sister for money, and then must struggle to live with the guilt that comes as a result of his crimes.

Presents Dickens's 1853 novel in which several generations of the Jarndyce family wait in vain for an inheritance tied up in a legal dispute in England's notoriously slow-moving Court of Chancery.

During one of his several adventurous voyages, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives nearly thirty years on a desert island before being rescued.

Presents Charles Darwin's 1859 text in which he defines his theory of evolution, arguing that species change over time, evolving or dying out entirely, through the process of natural selection.

Presents Cooper's classic novel in which Hawk-eye, a white scout raised among Native Americans, and two Mohicans, Chingachgook and Uncas, attempt to save two pioneer sisters abducted by Iroquois tribesmen during the French and Indian War; and includes explanatory notes and an essay on the novel's historical contexts.

A collection of interrelated stories in which George Willard, a young newspaper reporter, comments on the hopes, dreams, and fears of the residents of the small town of Winesburg, Ohio.

Presents twenty-six fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, including both familiar and lesser-known selections. Translated from their original Danish, with an introduction and illustrations.

Presents a verse translation of the fourteenth-century Arthurian legend, and includes an introduction, textual note, bibliography, chronology, and explanatory notes.

Presents a new translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses," and includes an introduction, historical sketch, and explanatory notes.