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The Happy Prince (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the help of a selfless Swallow helps people in distress. As well as The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend and The Remarkable Rocke ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vuln ...Show more
The House of the Dead & The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs. Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out. The House of the Dead is fiction, but based ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
One of the greatest stories ever told, "Iliad" has survived for thousands of years because of its insightful portrayal of man and its epic story of war, duty, honor, and revenge.Complete and Unabridged.
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 Odyssey by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love for his wife and son have the same power to move and inspire readers today as they did ...Show more
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of the hero - ...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 Ultimate Children's Classic Collection by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Includes: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 9781853261183 The Wind in the Willows 9781853261220 The Little Prince 9781853261589 Treasure Island 9781853261039 Black Beauty 9781853261091 The Jungle Book 9781853261190 The Secret Garden 9781853261046 Peter Pan 9781853261206
This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to adulthood follows him from prep school through to Princeton University, where his literary talents flourish, in contrast to his academic failure. A sequence of love affairs with be ...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