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Oneworld Classics is an independent publisher with offices in London (Richmond) and Oxford. Launched in 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.

Oneworld Classics is delighted to announce the acquisition of the legendary Calder Publications list – which includes works by Beckett, Céline, Artaud, Duras, Trocchi, Barker, Ionesco and Robbe-Grillet, among many others – and the Calder Bookshop on The Cut, near Waterloo, famous for its eclectic events programme.















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In Praise of Folly

Erasmus

Vilified by generations of philosophers and moralists, the goddess Folly decides to climb onto the pulpit and vindicate herself, since humankind stubbornly refuses to acknowledge her many indisputable virtues. Read More
The Picture of Dorian Grey

Oscar Wilde

Published just before he reached the height of his fame, Wilde's only full-length novel has endured as surely as the great plays for which he is celebrated. Read More
The Benefit of Farting

Jonathan Swift

What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is farting considered to be a taboo? Read More
  Sonnets

Cecco Angiolieri

Cecco, the enfant terrible of Italian literature, loved women, gambling, food and wine. It is said that he found comfort for his bad luck at the dice and with Becchina, his unreciprocating lover, only by pouring scorn upon his miserly parents. Read More
Humiliated and Insulted

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Pub. date: February 2008.
The novel's construction is that of an intricate detective story, and the reader is plunged into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma and, above all, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. Read More

Quiet Days in Clichy

Henry Miller

Exposing the underbelly of Paris and its world of sex, prostitutes and destitution, Quiet Days in Clichy was, like most of Miller's novels, repressed in Britain and the USA due to its erotic content. Read More

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