One Thousand and One Arabian Nights - Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad and the Tales of Scheherazade (HB) by Wen-Chin Ouyang (Foreword by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
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The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the wa ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vuln ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the su ...Show more
Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition o ...Show more
Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Dickens's final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel's themes ...Show more
The Red & the Black by Stendhal
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (revised by Moya Longstaffe). With an Introduction and Notes by Moya Longstaffe. The Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great 'realist' novel of the nineteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces an ...Show more
The Works of John Donne by John Donne
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library | Reading Level: very good
Edited with an Introduction, Chronology, Notes, Bibliography and Glossary by Roy Booth, Royal Holloway College, University of London. John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form of verse re-ma ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'. The fast-moving and inge ...Show more
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocr ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mr ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic o ...Show more