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Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with ...Show more
Voyage of the Beagle by CHARLES DARWIN
Category: Nature | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropica ...Show more
Voyages of Captain Cook by James Cook
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Cook's three voyages of discovery, which took place between 1768 and 1779, are among the most remarkable achievements in the history of exploration. Cook charted vast areas of the globe with astonishing accuracy, and the voyages also made a significant contribution towards solving some of the great prob ...Show more
Walden & Civil Obedience by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations - the illusory nature of much of what we call 'progress', the proper symbiotic relationship between man and the natural environment, the limitations of government, especially where it seek ...Show more
War of the Worlds / The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened. The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to di ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. ...Show more
Water Babies (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Kingsley
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bo ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Category: Business | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book.First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became ...Show more
Well of Loneliness by RADCLYFFE HALL
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
‘As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved…It was good, good, good…’ Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents – a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. A ...Show more
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. For all its sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupted adult world, this novel is one of James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behaviour of the ch ...Show more
Wind in the Willows (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Kenneth Grahame
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his 'Poop-poop-poop' road-hogging new motor car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and ...Show more