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Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens is a disturbing and powerful blend of Gothic melodrama and historical realism. This novel was Charles Dickens's first historical novel. Barnaby Rudge was published serially starting in 1840 in Master Humphrey's Clock. The story takes place against the backdrop of the Gor ...Show more
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol; Anthony Briggs (Introduction by); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Isabel F. Hapgood (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The landowner receives a payment and a relief of his tax burd ...Show more
Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy; T. C. B. Cook (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy s late fiction and the first major fictional work to be published by the author after his crisis and conversion to Christianity. The story of the life and death at the age of forty-five, of a high court prosecutor in 19th-century Russia, it ...Show more
Devils (Words Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett (Translator); A. D. P. Briggs (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe ...Show more
Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith; Weedon Grossmith (Illustrator); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Michael Irwin (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine in 1888-89 and first appeared in book form, with extended text and added illustrations, in 1892. The Diary reco ...Show more
First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to Kent to write a play, he encounters Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist who has invented a material that counteracts gravity. This discovery enables the two men to set off on a fantastic journey to the Moon. But they are not prepared for what they find ...Show more
Jungle Book and Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
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
Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. 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 ...Show more
The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin's extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short stories, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), and twelve uncollected tales.The Awakening is a strikingly modern, ...Show more
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