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
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This semi-autobiographical novel explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. It is a pre-Freudian exploration of love and possessiveness.
This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to adulthood follows him from prep school through to Princeton University, where his literary talents flourish, in contrast to his academic failure. A sequence of love affairs with be ...Show more
Dracula by BRAM STOKER
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips ...Show more
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 Dick is 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
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
To Kill a Mockingbird (Vintage Classics) by Harper Lee
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidd ...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.