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2nd Hand Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the ...Show more
Christmas Carol by DICKENS CHARLES
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, usually known just as A Christmas Carol is a fairy-tale novel by a British classic Charles Dickens, that was published in 1843. It consists of five chapters, or staves as the author named them. Among all the stories about Christmas, A Christm ...Show more
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the ...Show more
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with The Merry Men and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. Also included in this volume is Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and ...Show more
Dracula by BRAM STOKER
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips ...Show more
Emma by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married ...Show more
Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first ban ...Show more
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocr ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful ...Show more
Les Miserables (#1) by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, ...Show more
Les Miserables (#2) by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Merables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, a ...Show more
The Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the ...Show more