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Pinocchio (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Carlo Collodi
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Category: Children's | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Carved by Old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. And Pinocchio is such a scamp that he gets into all sorts of mischief. He runs away and joins a circus but eventually the conscience of a talking cricket and Pinocchio's guardian fairy restore him to g ...Show more
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamoris ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the ...Show more
The Best Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literar ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitxgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the ...Show more
The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he is an undisputed master. The Man Who would be King (later adapted as a spectacular film) is a vivid narrative of exotic adventure and disaster. The other tales include the ironic, ...Show more
The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a life in Brussels. But as a man, William has freedom of ...Show more
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of ...Show more
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in The Adventures of the Empty House. The stories are ...Show more
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes by David Stuart Davies
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was ...Show more
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant. Canterbury Christ Church College. The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of the l ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Ulysses is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. It is considered to be one of the most important works of Modernist ...Show more