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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lo ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
"''"People never like me and I never like people," Mary thought.'i>hen Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoilt and quite contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the mater ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Tempest is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of Shakespeare's late comedies. Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself of that magic, his 'art', and prepare ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Ha ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
A historical romance, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of ...Show more
The Velveteen Rabbit & Other Animal Adventures (Wordsworth's Children's Classics) by Margery Williams
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
This endearing edition proudly includes the original telling of the beloved tale, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. Together, we travel alongside the Velveteen Rabbit on his magical journey towards becoming real and discover how he and other toys are brought to life once they are truly loved by ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Features Rat, Mole, Badger and Mr Toad and their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall.
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it tou ...Show more
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for youn ...Show more
Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers by Henry James; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Claire Seymour (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
In these two chilling stories, Henry James shows himself to be a master of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension. The Turn of the Screw tells of a young governess sent to a country home to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the house, she soon b ...Show more