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Jane Eyre (Collector's Edition) by Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Bronte
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart!' Orphaned at a young age, Jane Eyre is foisted upon unfriendly relations, sent to school to suffer illness, injustice and privation, before ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. LAWRENCE
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an ...Show more
Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exup ry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world ...Show more
Macbeth (Wordsworth Collector's Edition) by William Shakespeare
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Shakespeare's Macbethis one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the a ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Collector's Edition) by Austen J
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheer ...Show more
Moby Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'. Moby Dickis the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabo ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dallowayheralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experience ...Show more
Oliver Twist (Collector's Edition) by CHARLES DICKENS
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers.With Oliver Twisthis reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, despe ...Show more
Persuasion (Collector's Edition) by Jane AUSTEN
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of ...Show more
Picture of Dorian Gray (Collector's Edition) by OSCAR WILDE
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature -- "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife". Its manuscript was initially called First Impressions, but was never pub ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by DANIEL DEFOE
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoehas been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, oper ...Show more