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
Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair by David Stuart Davies
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
This novel is an exciting fusion of a Sherlock Holmes mystery with the Ruritanian world of intrigue and skulduggery of Anthony Hope's novel The Prisoner of Zenda. Colonel Sapt of the Ruritanian Court journeys to England on a secret mission to save the country from anarchy. His mission is to engage the s ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Delve into this stunning edition boasting the unabridged versions of both fantasy novels, an introduction, and John Tenniel's original illustrations.Part of the Knickerbocker Classics series, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is unabridged and complete, and comprised of both ...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
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 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
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; Peter Merchant (Introductions and notes by); Hablot K. Browne (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...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
There Once Was a Limerick Anthology: Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Woodrow Wilson and Others by Michael Croland (Editor)
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem with a bouncy rhythm, and common varieties include geographical and bawdy limericks as well as tongue twisters and creative misspellings. Limerick legends ...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