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Eugene Onegin by A.S. Pushkin
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is, for Russians, their greatest writer; Eugene Onegin is his greatest work. Yet it remains little known outside Russia. Attempts to render Pushkin's Russian stanzas into verse have tried in vain to imitate the most inimitable features of the original, while masking many of ...Show more
Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser.
This tale opens with the knight, Redcrosse, undertaking a quest in aid of his beloved, Una. In order to succeed, and be united with Una, Redcrosse must overcome his own human failings as well as the evil tricks of the magician Archimago.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most mem ...Show more
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between t ...Show more
Les Miserables (#1) by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, ...Show more
Les Miserables (#2) by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Merables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, a ...Show more
Lorna Doone by R D Blackmore
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685). It is also a moving love story tol ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions as well as high poetry, blended in such a way as to demonstrate the assured dramatic touch of Shakespeare's maturity. Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned int ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of pro ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Perrault
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Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Translated by A.E.Johnson. Eight of the twelve tales in this book are from the master hand of Charles Perrault (1628-1703). Although Perrault enjoyed much distinction in the French literary circle of the late seventeenth century, his fame today rests upon his authorship of the traditional Tales of Mothe ...Show more