A Man for All Seasons (Playscript) by Robert Bolt
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Modern Classics
A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endurance, his purity, saintliness and tenac ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful ...Show more
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Category: Classics | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
A Passage to India by Martin Sherman
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Modern Plays
First major theatrical adaptation of EM Forster's classic novel for a contemporary audience Before deciding whether to marry Chandrapore's local magistrate, Adela Quested wants to discover the "real India" for herself. Newly arrived from England, she agrees to see the Marabar Caves with the charming Dr ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense and Se ...Show more
Les Miserables (#1) by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
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
Between the Acts & The Years by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, The Years(1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts(1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweave ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and the various characters whom she meets there, and tracks ...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
The Complete Poems of John Keats by John Keats
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Poetry Library
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death, ' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a ...Show more
Best of Sherlock Holmes by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davie ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later lif ...Show more