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Complete Works of William Shakespeare by SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The T ...Show more
Dictionary of Shakespeare by Charles Boyce
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Collection
Great Gatsby by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined t ...Show more
Jane Eyre by CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a h ...Show more
Jungle Book by RUDYARD KIPLING
Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgl ...Show more
Lewis Carroll (The Complete Illustrated)-2ndhand by Lewis Carroll
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniel's much loved drawings. However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundru ...Show more
Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the other hand it is a thought-provoki ...Show more
Little Women by L. M. ALCOTT
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconvention ...Show more
Little Women by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconve ...Show more
Moonfleet by J. MEADE FALKNER
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs Officers. Unofficially adopted by Block, John comes to learn the reasons for the noises in the graveyard at night, of 'Blackb ...Show more
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Marcus Stone (Illustrator); Deborah Wynne (Intro and Notes by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Collection
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap's expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands su ...Show more
Peter Pan by J. M. BARRIE
Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off ...Show more