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Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent h ...Show more
Railway Children by EDITH NESBIT
Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet. However, they soon come to love the ...Show more
Robin Hood by HENRY GILBERT
Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time. In this edition, Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest - Robin himself, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and Alan-a-Dale, as well as Maid Marian, good King Richard, and Robin's deadly enemies Guy of Gisborne and t ...Show more
Secret Garden by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across he ...Show more
The Collected Novels Complete Bronte (HB) by Bronte Sisters
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Although Charlotte Bronte's heroine is outwardly plain, she possesses an indomitable spirit, and great courage. Forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order which c ...Show more
The Collected Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (HB) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Few American novelists of the twentieth century have stayed as modern as F. Scott Fitzgerald. He gave a name to his age, 'the Jazz Age', but his reputation has outlived it. Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he ...Show more
The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll (HB) by Lewis Carroll (illus John Tenniel)
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (HB) by Jane Austen
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether ...Show more
The Little Prince and Other Stories (HB) by VARIOUS
Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
The Little Prince is a modern parable for our time, of equal appeal to children and adults. This much loved story is joined by the following classic titles, to give a collection that has something for everyone, whatever their age: Black Beauty, Little Women, Alice in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, Robin ...Show more
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens; Hablot K. Browne (Illustrator); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); George Cruickshank (Illustrator); Peter Preston (Intro and Notes by)
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Collection
The Old Curiosity Shop is the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of curiosities. Her only friend is Kit, an honest young lad who works at the shop, and whom she is teaching to write. Unbeknownst to Nell, her grandfather is obsessed with t ...Show more
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens; R. W. Buss (Illustrator); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); David Ellis (Intro and Notes by); R. Seymour (Illustrator); Hablot K. Browne (Illustrator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Collection
Dickens takes up on an exploration of the perils, travels, and adventures of the Pickwick Club's members: the founding chairman, former businessman and amateur scientist Mr. Pickwick; his trusted companion Sam Weller; the sportsman Winkle; the poet Snodgrass; and the lover Tracy Tupman. Includes unique ...Show more
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Collection
With an Introduction by Tim Cook. Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love for the noto ...Show more