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Alice in Wonderland by LEWIS CARROLL
Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White R ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by L. MONTGOMERY
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
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
Anne of Green Gables by LUCY MONTGOMERY
Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
When the Cuthberts send to an orphanage for a boy to help them at Green Gables, their farm in Canada, they are astonished when a talkative little girl steps off the train. Anne, red-headed, pugnacious and incurably romantic, causes chaos at Green Gables and in the village, but her wit and good nature de ...Show more
Black Beauty by ANNA SEWELL
Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies. Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead. Seen through his eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the ...Show more
Christmas Carol by CHARLES DICKENS
Category: Christmas | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward. This finest of all Chr ...Show more
Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories by Collings
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Collection
This work comprises a collection of classic and lesser-known ghost stories from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It includes ghosts as fictional creations and as real apparitions. It includes contributions from all over the world.
Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe (HB) by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University o ...Show more
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by OSCAR WILDE
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture o ...Show more
Complete Andersen's Fairy Tales (HB) by Hans Christian Andersen
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For ...Show more
Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (HB) by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm K. Grimm; Brothers Grimm
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together wit ...Show more
Complete Novels of James Joyce - Wordsworth Editions by James Joyce
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Includes - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Ulysses, Dubliners, and Finnagans WakeThis collection comprises of Joyce's three novels, plus the short story collection Dubliners. Dubliners, about Joyce's native city, is faithful to his country, seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every preceden ...Show more
Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tal ...Show more