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The Complete List 2013 Cover Illustration: Detail from Portrait of a Young Girl by Alexej Von Jawlensky 2013 Front cover image from Freud: A Case of Hysteria (see page 44) The Complete List 2013 Cover illustration: detail from Portrait of a Young Girl by Alexej von Jawlensky. © Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany/The Bridgeman Art Library. www.oup.com/worldsclassics 1 ATOWC13 Welcome to the Oxford World’s Classics Contents Complete List 2013 2 New Titles in Oxford World’s Classics New to the Oxford World’s Classics series in 2013 is Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and regarded as one of the most important collections of poetry ever published. This is the only edition to Complete List combine the first edition of 1798 with the expanded edition of 1802. 9 · British and Irish Literature One of the most enduringly popular works in English theatre history, 26 · The Oxford Shakespeare The Beggar’s Opera is set in an underworld of thieves and prostitutes. Its continuation, Polly, transplants the characters into the new world of British 28 · American Literature colonialism, extending the play’s satirical attack on society. This is the only 31 · European Literature edition to combine The Beggar’s Opera with its sequel. 38 · Classics and the Ancient World A unique edition of the Book of Common Prayer joins the series. Brian Cummings’s acclaimed edition brings together the texts of three different 42 · Eastern Literature versions – the first edition of 1549; the Elizabethan prayer book of 1559; and 43 · Philosophy, Politics, History, Science, and Economics the edition of 1662, which embodies the religious temper of the nation down to modern times. 46 · Religion and Belief Join our community 47 Title Index Browse our website www.oup.com/worldsclassics Follow us on Twitter @OWC_Oxford 54 Author Index Like us on Facebook.com/oxfordworldsclassics Teachers and lecturers can order inspection copies quickly and simply via our website Quality assurance from Oxford World’s Classics A continuous programme of new titles and revised editions ensures that the series retains its breadth and reflects the latest critical ideas. Comprehensive introductions, clear explanatory notes, chronologies, and bibliographies support the classic texts. In addition, many Oxford World’s Classics include fascinating and useful related material such as maps, glossaries, indexes, illustrations, and appendices. h Where you see this symbol simply visit www.oup.co.uk/goto/owcaudio to listen to our expert editors and translators guide you through the text. The information in this catalogue is correct at the time of going to press. Details including prices and publication dates may change. n e w e d i t i o n New Titles Under the Greenwood Tree Thomas Hardy n e w translation Edited by simon Gatrell, University of Georgia, French Decadent Tales introduction and notes by Phillip Mallett, University of st Andrews Translated by stephen Romer, tours University ‘Miss Fancy Day; as neat a little figure of fun as ever I see, ‘He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.’ and just husband-high.’ ‘Decadence’ was a European movement, but its epicentre was the French capital. In the small Wessex village of Mellstock, the pretty young schoolmistress A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent Fancy Day finds herself romantically entangled with three different men. The writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. Stories by writers such as Gourmont, Lorrain, rivalries and intrigues that follow are played out with gentle humour against an Maupassant, Mirbeau, and Villiers teem with addicts, maniacs, and murderers. untouched rural scene that will not long survive. This new edition combines a This is a unique anthology of 36 of the best French decadent tales, newly translated. critically established text with a new introduction and fresh notes that illuminate It brings together the very best examples, from lesser-known figures as well as one of Hardy’s best-loved novels. famous names. Provocative and unsettling, these extraordinary, corrosive little May 2013 � paperback � 272 pp � 196 x 129 mm � 978-0-19-969720-5 � £7.99 tales continue to cast a cold eye on the modern world. May 2013 � paperback � 272 pp � 196 x 129 mm � 978-0-19-956927-4 � £8.99 n e w e d i t i o n Vathek William Beckford The Beggar’s Opera and Polly Edited by thomas Keymer, University of toronto John Gay ‘Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which Edited by Hal Galdfelder, University of Manchester he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which ‘Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to surpasseth his power!’ their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.’ The Caliph Vathek is dissolute, and hungry for knowledge. When the mysterious With The Beggar’s Opera, John Gay created one of the most popular works in English Giaour offers him boundless treasure and unrivalled power he is willing to theatre history, and invented a new dramatic form, the ballad opera. Gay’s daring sacrifice his god, the lives of innocent children, and his own soul to satisfy his mixture of caustic political satire, well-loved popular tunes, and a story of crime obsession. This captivating tale of magic and oriental fantasy defies classification. and betrayal set in the urban underworld of prostitutes and thieves, was an It is newly introduced and annotated by Thomas Keymer in the most critically overnight sensation. In its sequel, Polly, Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum’s up-to-date edition available. adventures continue in the West Indies. The Beggar’s Opera and Polly are published June 2013 � paperback � 192 pp � 196 x 129 mm � 978-0-19-957695-1 � £7.99 together here for the first time. May 2013 � paperback � 256 pp � 196 x 129 mm � 978-0-19-964222-9 � £7.99 2 · new titles new titles · 3 Daisy Miller and An International Episode The Book of Henry James Common Prayer Edited by Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge The texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 Edited by Brian Cummings, University of York ‘An inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.’ ‘In the midst of life we are in death.’ Young Daisy Miller amuses and charms her susceptible fellow-American, The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent or corrupt? Has he lived too long in language all over the world. This edition presents the work in three different Europe to judge her properly? Some compatriots detected treachery in the states: the first edition of 1549 which brought the Reformation into people’s book’s portrayal of young American womanhood so James responded with homes; the Elizabethan prayer book of 1559 which was familiar to Shakespeare ‘An International Episode’, which exposes a couple of English gentlemen to the and Milton; and the edition of 1662 which embodies the religious temper of the charm of American sisters. This unique edition reunites two tales which James nation down to modern times. The first edition for the common reader, with full intended to be complementary, and includes a new introduction and notes notes and introduction, this is one of the seminal texts of human experience. by Adrian Poole. July 2013 � paperback � 896 pp � 196 x 129 mm � 978-0-19-964520-6 � £10.99 June 2013 � paperback � 256 pp � 196 x 129 mm � 978-0-19-963988-5 � £6.99 Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1802 Collected Ghost Stories William Wordsworth and Samuel M. R. James Taylor Coleridge Edited by Darryl Jones, trinity College Dublin Edited by Fiona stafford, University of Oxford ‘I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and ‘Listen, Stranger!’ of a cold kind of face pressed against my own …’ Wordsworth and Coleridge’s joint collection of poems has often been singled Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was out as the founding text of English Romanticism. This is the only edition to print an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with the fullest of Eton and Cambridge. This edition presents all of James’s published ghost version of the Preface and Wordsworth’s important ‘Appendix on Poetic Diction’. stories, including the unforgettable ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’ It offers modern readers a sense of what it was like to encounterLyrical Ballads for and ‘Casting the Runes’, and an appendix of James’s writings on the ghost story. the first time, and to see how it developed. Important letters are included, as well Darryl Jones’s introduction and notes provide a fascinating insight into James’s as a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes. background and his mastery of the genre he made his own. July 2013 � paperback � 432 pp � 196 x 129 mm � 978-0-19-960196-7 � £8.99 September 2013 � paperback � 528 pp � 196 x 129 mm � 978-0-19-967489-3 � £8.99 4 · new titles new titles · 5 n e w e d i t i o n n e w translation Sylvia’s Lovers The Masnavi, Book Three Elizabeth Gaskell Jalal Al-Din Rumi Edited by Frances O’Gorman, University of leeds Translated by Jawid Mojaddedi, Rutgers University ‘He’s spoilt my life,— he’s spoilt it for as long as I live ‘Your life is like a purse, and night and day on this earth’ Are counters of gold coins you’ve put away’ The compelling story of an ordinary girl’s tragic passion for a man who Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is disappears, Sylvia’s Lovers (1863) is Elizabeth Gaskell’s last complete novel.
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