1905.

The Oxford World's Classics were classed as "the most famous works of the English Language" and many volumes contained introductions by distinguished authors, such as T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, among others. The books were marketed as a cheap and accessible series for the general public to read some of the greatest works of literature:
:"Cheaply and in little shelf space, the general reader can build up a library of those books, which, having