The Lingard Trilogy by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Almayer's Folly was Conrad's outstanding debut novel: as well as exploring the culture of a part of the world previously unknown to English fiction, it showed immense sophistication in its handling of narrative, time-shifts and point of view. Hailed as 'a writer of genius' by contemporary reviewers, Con ...Show more
Heart of Darkness & Other Stories by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colon ...Show more
Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Following on from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) became one of Mark Twain's most popular books. Again we meet his world famous characters: Tom Sawyer, 'Nigger Jim', and Huck Finn - together now on a fantastical balloon journey acr ...Show more
Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Michael Irwin (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the l ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitxgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Sally Minogue (Intro and Notes by); Keith Carabine (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
'O Jem, her father won't listen to me, and it's you must save Mary You're like a brother to her' Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her ...Show more
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics
Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her fatal imp ...Show more
Lord Jim by JOSEPH CONRAD
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford. First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an e ...Show more
The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he is an undisputed master. The Man Who would be King (later adapted as a spectacular film) is a vivid narrative of exotic adventure and disaster. The other tales include the ironic, ...Show more
A View from the Bridge and All My Sons by Arthur Miller
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"A View From the Bridge" features Eddie, an illiterate longshoreman. His progress towards self discovery and fall is detailed in this drama. The second play, "All My Sons", is a merciless exposure of wartime profiteering and the capitalist ethic.
The Complete Mapp and Lucia: #1: Queen Lucia, Miss Map, Lucia in London by E. F. Benson
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Lucia is one of the great comic characters in English literature. Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, 'as by right divine' rules over the toy kingdom of 'Riseholme' based on the Cotswold ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
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