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Between the Acts & The Years by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, The Years(1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts(1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweave ...Show more
Bhagavad-gita by Vrindar Nabar (Formerly, Professor of English, Bombay University, India)
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Consists of the dialogue between Prince Arjuna and his mentor and friend, Lord Krishna, on the eve of the battle of Kuruksetra. This discourse contains an exposition of the Hindu philosophy of Karma Yoga as Prince Arjuna struggles with his understandable 'existential' anguish at having to join battle ag ...Show more
Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of sat ...Show more
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies. Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead. Seen through his eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the ...Show more
Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mys ...Show more
Call of the Wild & White Fang by Jack London
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian ...Show more
Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth American Classics Ser.
Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce never owned a horse, a carriage, or a car; he was a renter who never owned his own home. He was a man on the move, a man who traveled light: and in the end he rode, with all of his possessions, on a rented horse into the Mexican desert to join Pancho ...Show more
Candide and Other Works by Voltaire
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and is one of the thinkers who prepared the ...Show more
Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation and the terri ...Show more
Castle Rackrent by Edgeworth
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics Ser.
Catriona by Robert Louis StevensonExcerpts he goes by, and now something else. And here is this son of trouble, Neil, son of Duncan, has lost my four-penny piece that was to buy that snuff, and James More must go wanting, and will think his daughter has forgotten him."I took sixpence from my pocket, gav ...Show more
Chapman's Homer :The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.