Oxford World's Classics on the OUPblog

Five spooky story collections to keep you up this Halloween We all know Poe (though Eurovision fans might ask “Who the hell is Edgar?”). We’ve all heard of M.R. James and his wide ra...

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Before Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen and “Susan” With hindsight, it’s hard to imagine a more spectacular publishing flub than the rejection of Pride and Prejudice in its first version...

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How well do you know Shakespeare’s plays? Brush up on your Shakespeare with our quiz! OUPblog - Academic insights for the thinking world.               RELATED STORIES Al...

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Translating Proust again "There is no ideal, ultimate translation of a given original. Classic texts in particular, from Homer onwards, are susceptible of multiple readings and retranslatio...

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Five children’s classics that stand the test of time The books people remember most are often the ones from their childhoods, and it’s no surprise; many children’s books have survive...

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Xenophon’s kinder Socrates The idea that Xenophon’s Socratic dialogues entirely lacked the philosophical bite or intellectual depth of Plato’s had become a commonplace in a philosophi...

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After Burns: recovering Scottish poetry Scottish poetry produced in the long eighteenth century might strike you as at once familiar and unknown. Hundreds of poets, balladists, and songwrit...

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Is Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas an Irish novel? When Sheridan Le Fanu’s "Uncle Silas" appeared in 1864, its author was best known as the proprietor of the Dublin University Magazine a...

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What is “normal” anyway? How reading changes our thinking about mental health Reading literature has us think differently, with a subtler emotional lexicon. Explore three case studies i...

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Eight classic novels to inspire your New Year Are you searching for inspiration to help further your goals this new year? Reading books offers an easy yet effective way to help navigate li...

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Weird Moby-Dick There are a lot of peculiar phrases in Moby-Dick. My new introduction to the second Oxford World’s Classics edition of Herman Melville’s novel highlights the st...

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Vernon Lee, history, and horror Some of the most acclaimed films to come out of the horror mini-boom of the past decade mix history and horror in disconcerting ways. Of course, these are no...

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How well do you know these spooky Oxford World’s Classics? To help put you in the apt mood for Halloween this year, we have created a quiz to test your knowledge on some of Oxford World�...

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Rumi’s subversive poetry and his sexually explicit stories Rumi, the thirteenth-century Muslim poet, has become a household name in the last few decades, even becoming the best-selling po...

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Comparing Woolf’s Jacob’s Room and Beethoven’s Third How does the formal originality of Jacob’s Room, its dark tenor, fit into the arc of Woolf’s career? I found unexpec...

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A summer playlist inspired by Oxford World’s Classics To help curate your summer playlist and reading list, here are 10 songs and Oxford World’s Classics we recommend you add to your ro...

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Moby-Dick is the answer. What is the question? In December 2021, I was a contestant on the popular American quiz show Jeopardy! Every Jeopardy! game has a brief segment in which contestants...

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10 books to immerse yourself in the world of classical literature Here are 10 books that we recommend you read if you’re looking to immerse yourself in the world of classical literature,...

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Five little-known facts about Dracula The 26th May 2022 marks the 125th anniversary of Dracula’s publication. Despite its reputation as one of the great Gothic novels, there are ...

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A literary history of Modernism In this timeline, we explore key figures and events that contributed to shaping modernism and celebrate 100 years since 1922: the pinnacle year of modernist...

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Five classics to read if you enjoy shows like Bridgerton or Sanditon “It is a truth universally acknowledged…” that there is no such thing as too many period dramas—at least, this ...

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How well do you know these literary classics by women? Test your knowledge of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary classics penned by women! OUPblog - Academic insights for the th...

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Introducing Shakespeare to young readers No one has a duty to like Shakespeare, just as no one is obliged to prefer coffee to tea, or classical music to pop, or soap operas to documentaries...

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Five things to know about F. Scott Fitzgerald Synonymous with the Jazz Age of the American 1920s which his novels did so much to define, F. Scott Fitzgerald hardly needs any introduction. R...

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Continuing Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon Unfinished works tease us. They come with baggage. They cling to their authors whose lives, in turn, weigh heavy upon them. Why were the...

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