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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Collector's Edition) by William Shakespeare
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night's Dreamone of the most popular of Shakespeare's works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd a ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet and the Sign of the Four (Collector's Edition) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
'Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes' - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective's faithful chronicler. This novel not ...Show more
African Folk & Fairy Tales: Ancient Wisdom, Fables & Folkore by J. K. JACKSON
Category: Classic | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Delightful and ingenious stories from throughout the continent of Africa.A Gorgeous Collector's Edition of folk and fairy tales from the continent of Africa, with stories from regions now marked as modern nations such as Libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda, w ...Show more
African Myths & Legends: Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters by J. K. JACKSON
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. With its powerful tradition of storytelling, the myths of the continent of Africa have survived colonialism and slavery, bringing together a rich diversity of cultures from Ethiopia to Tanzania, from the Xhosa people to the Yoruba. This collection offers tales of the gods, ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland by LEWIS CARROLL
Category: Children's | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and id ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. MONTGOMERY
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a ...Show more
Arthurian Myths and Legends by Raluca Radulescu (Introduction by); J. K. Jackson (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Many medieval writers, especially from France and Wales, wrote stories about the great British leader, King Arthur. Legends, folklore and myths from this period come together to paint a picture of who he was with some describing him as a great warrior, defending Britain fro ...Show more
Black Beauty (Cloth-bound HB) by A. SEWELL
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, ...Show more
Celtic Ancient Origins by Martin J. Dougherty
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Beautiful edition taking the reader through the origins and history the mighty Celts, known at the time of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, highlighting the origins of modern fiction in myth and fable. To most of us, Celtic culture is at once distinctive and enigmatic. Though we may acknowledge the Celtic h ...Show more
Christmas Carol (Cloth-bound HB) by Charles Dickens
Category: Childrens Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Collectors Edition) by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
"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
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by ROBERT L. STEVENSON
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of m ...Show more