The Complete Poems of John Keats by John Keats
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Poetry Library
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death, ' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Collector's Edition) by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Thomas Hardy, never one to be conventional, took a very unconventional moral stance in this novel, which shocked Victorian readers. In doing so, he created one of the great romantic novels of all time, the story of a striking and tragic character who came to life for the reader as she did for the author ...Show more
The Outsiders (Modern Classics) by S.E. Hinton
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Category: Classics
In Ponyboy's world there are two types of people. There are the Socs, the rich society kids who get away with anything. Then there are the greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren't so lucky. Ponyboy has a few things he can count on: his older brothers, his friends, and trouble with the Socs, whose idea of a go ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
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
Best of Sherlock Holmes by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davie ...Show more
The House of the Dead & The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs. Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out. The House of the Dead is fiction, but based ...Show more
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol; Anthony Briggs (Introduction by); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Isabel F. Hapgood (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The landowner receives a payment and a relief of his tax burd ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist ...Show more
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
With an Introduction and Notes by Phillip Mallett, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews. Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a movin ...Show more
Daisy Miller and Other Stories by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's most attractive heroines: she represents youth and frivolity. As a tourist in Italy, her American freedom and freshness of spirit come up against the corruption and hypocrisy of European manners. From its first publication, readers on both sides of the Atlantic have ...Show more
Sherlock Holmes: The Shadow of the Rat & The Tangled Skein by David Stuart Davies
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Two of Sherlock Holmes' most exciting, dangerous and challenging adventures in one volume. In The Shadow of the Rat, a body is found floating in the river - a body that has been deliberately infected with the plague virus. Holmes and Watson find themselves seeking answers at The Bridge of Dreams, a club ...Show more