Oneworld Classics is an independent publisher with offices in London (Richmond) and Oxford. Launched in March 2007 by the directors of Oneworld Publications and Alma Books, its aim is to expand the literary canon in the English-speaking world through a series of mainstream and lesser-known classics, often by commissioning new translations.
In September 2007, Oneworld Classics acquired the legendary Calder Publications list - which includes works by Pirandello, Artaud, Duras, Trocchi, Celine, Queneau, Ionesco and Robbe-Grillet, among many others - and the Calder Bookshop on The Cut, near Waterloo, famous for its eclectic events programme.
The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to...
In Bulgakov’s ‘Diaboliad’, the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the First Central Depot for the Materials for Matches, and tries to seek out...
'Atala', published in 1801, tells the tragic tale of the eponymous heroine, the mixed-race Christian daughter of a Native American chief, who saves the captured Chactas and tragically falls in love with him...
After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted with the...
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and...
When an ageing, poverty-stricken nobleman decides to style himself “Don Quixote” and embark upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between the fantasy world of literary...
Fathers and Children, arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, shocked readers when it was first published in 1862 – the controversial character of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed...
First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night is regarded as Céline's masterpiece. It is told in the first person and is based on his own experiences during the First World War; in French colonial...
In Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through his depiction of the fictional northern city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are Thomas Gradgrind, the utilitarian headmaster who attempts...
Tolstoy’s first published work, completed in 1856, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth recounts his early life up to his university days. These are not memoirs in the strict sense of the word, as the author’s...
Dante’s best friend and a major exponent of the dolce stil novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations and...
Dante’s dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption – and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth – is one of the...
The Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov
Humiliated and InsultedFyodor Dostoevsky
Exercises in StyleRaymond Queneau
Alice's Adventures Under GroundLewis Carroll
In Praise of FollyErasmus
Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
A Strange Manuscript Found in a...James de Mille
Boris Godunov and Little TragediesAlexander Pushkin
ConstantinopleEdmondo de Amicis
SecretumPetrarch
The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eugene OneginAlexander Pushkin
The Lost GirlD.H. Lawrence
Notes from under the FloorboardsFyodor Dostoevsky
The Dictionary of Received IdeasGustave Flaubert
The Red BookBenjamin Constant
We Always Treat Women Too WellRaymond Queneau
Histoires NaturellesJules Renard
The Life of Our LordCharles Dickens
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