Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and end ...Show more
Great Expectations (Collector's Edition) by Dickens C
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectationstraces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memo ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd (Collector's Edition) by THOMAS HARDY
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Thomas Hardy brings us an England that once existed but no more. It is rural, traditional, pastoral - a society of mannered conduct that flows like a deep river where powerful currents eddy and swirl. In this powerful novel of love and disillusion, Hardy's heroine is torn between the three men in her li ...Show more
Picture of Dorian Gray (Collector's Edition) by OSCAR WILDE
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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
The Golden Ass (Apuleius) by Apuleius
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Category: Classics
Peter Singer has breathed new life into Apuleius's The Golden Ass-a hilarious, bawdy tale and one of the earliest novels.Apuleius's The Golden Ass, one of a handful of surviving ancient novels, has remained relatively unknown-until now. Renowned philosopher and animal rights activist Peter Singer remedi ...Show more
Island by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classics
For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a paradise on earth.When cynical journalist. Will Famaby, arrive ...Show more
Complete Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communi ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. ...Show more
Aesop's Illustrated Fables (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Aesop
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
Aesop's Illustrated Fables features more than 400 fables, beautifully illustrated with engravings and color plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane and Ernest Griset. It includes all of the classic fables whose titles and morals have become part of our common cultural vocabulary, among them The Boy Who C ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
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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
Persuasion by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
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
Crime and Punishment (Collectors Edition) by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
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"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart..."Crime and Punishmentis one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn ...Show more