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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes  

Arthur Conan Doyle and W. W. Robson (ed.)

Published in Print: 
04 October 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923173
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199555642.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199555642
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were ... More
ChanceA Tale in two parts

Chance: A Tale in two parts  

Joseph Conrad and Martin Ray (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989872
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199549771.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199549771
Chance (1914) was the first of Conrad’s novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and ... More
Dubliners

Dubliners  

James Joyce and Jeri Johnson (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989643
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536436.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536436
‘I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne’ James Joyce’s disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with ... More
Eminent Victorians

Eminent Victorians  

Lytton Strachey and John Sutherland (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990038
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199555017.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199555017
Lytton Strachey’s biographical essays on four ‘eminent Victorians’ dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern biography and ... More
The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April  

Elizabeth von Arnim and Isobel Maddison (ed.)

Published in Print: 
Apr 2022
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989544
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198859093.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198859093
Four very different women—the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher, and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline ... More
The End of the Tetherand Other Tales

The End of the Tether: and Other Tales  

Joseph Conrad and Philip Davis (ed.)

Published in Print: 
Nov 2022
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989391
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780192896827.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780192896827
This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily forced into confrontation with a terrifying universe in which they can never be wholly at ... More
The First Men in the Moon

The First Men in the Moon  

H. G. Wells and Simon J. James (ed.)

Published in Print: 
12 January 2017
Published Online: 
27 January 2022
eISBN: 
9780191956980
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198705048.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198705048
As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation ... More
The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga  

John Galsworthy and Geoffrey Harvey (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989889
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199549894.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199549894
The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the ... More
Greenmantle

Greenmantle  

John Buchan and Kate Macdonald (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989704
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199537853.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199537853
In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan’s ... More
The Hound of the BaskervillesAnother Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes  

Arthur Conan Doyle and W. W. Robson (ed.)

Published in Print: 
01 April 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920875
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536962.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536962
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor hold ... More
The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles (2 ed.)  

Arthur Conan Doyle and Darryl Jones (ed.)

Published in Print: 
Mar 2023
Published Online: 
Dec 2023
eISBN: 
9780191981005
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198835226.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198835226
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of ... More
Huntingtower

Huntingtower  

John Buchan and Ann F. Stonehouse (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989711
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199537860.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199537860
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his ... More
Jacob’s Room

Jacob’s Room  

Virginia Woolf and Urmila Seshagiri (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989384
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780192857392.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780192857392
Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf’s third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit ... More
JournalsCaptain Scott’s Last Expedition

Journals: Captain Scott’s Last Expedition  

Robert Falcon Scott and Max Jones (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989674
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536801.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536801
Captain Scott’s harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party’s optimistic departure from New ... More
Just So Storiesfor Little Children

Just So Stories: for Little Children  

Rudyard Kipling and Lisa Lewis (ed.)

Published in Print: 
09 March 2015
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921438
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538607.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538607
How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. ... More
Kim

Kim  

Rudyard Kipling and Alan Sandison (ed.)

Published in Print: 
01 August 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920677
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536467.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536467
Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O’Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its ... More
Lord JimA Tale

Lord Jim: A Tale  

Joseph Conrad and Jacques Berthoud (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989612
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536023.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536023
‘To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be ... More
The Lost World

The Lost World  

Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Duncan (ed.)

Published in Print: 
15 December 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921490
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538799.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538799
‘The ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would ... More
The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction

The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction  

Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990021
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199554997.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199554997
‘I shall never forget the day I wrote “The Mark on the Wall” - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. “The Unwritten Novel” was the great discovery, ... More
Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway  

Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989599
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536009.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536009
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of ... More

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