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A Christmas Carol (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Childrens Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its l ...Show more
Captain Scott : The Voyage Of The Discovery by R.F.Scott
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
When I received the script of The Voyage of the Discovery I was amazed. I had only to read a few pages to realise that it was literature, unique of its kind ...Scott's mind was like wax to receive an impression and like marble to retain it'. So wrote Leonard Huxley, and he was not alone in his opinion. ...Show more
Chekhov Plays by Anton Chekhov
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated, with an introductory essay, by Elisaveta Fen, and with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. Anton Chekhov's popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, call ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later lif ...Show more
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: No Category | 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
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full ...Show more
Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests and uninvited visitors al ...Show more
Don Quixote by CERVANTES Miguel V
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, ...Show more
Emma by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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
Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland's open celebration of sexual enjoyment was a best selling novel. Fanny ...Show more
From the Earth to the Moon & Around the Moon by Jules Verne
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Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on 'extraordinary voyages.' His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. The popularity of his novels led dire ...Show more