Oxford World's Classics

Three different cover designs of the Oxford World's Classics series. From left to right: 1987, 1993, 2009.
World's Classics paperbacks were printed with minor variations in design and colour scheme.
The cover of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists in the Oxford World's Classics series.

Oxford World's Classics is an imprint of Oxford University Press. First established in 1901 by Grant Richards and purchased by OUP in 1906, this imprint publishes primarily dramatic and classic literature for students and the general public. Its competitors include Penguin Classics, Everyman's Library, and the Modern Library. Most titles include critical apparatus – usually, an introduction, bibliography, chronology, and explanatory notes – as is the case with Penguin Classics.[1]

  1. ^ "Oxford World's Classics". Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press.