The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library | Reading Level: good-very good
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterised as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages ...Show more
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspi ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. ...Show more
Persuasion by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of ...Show more
Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of sat ...Show more
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy; Keith Carabine (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The Forsyte Saga chronicles the ebbing social power of the upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during the 1880s and ending in the early 1920s. The saga begins with Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor who buys land at Robin Hill on which to build ...Show more
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
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
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American writers of the late 20th century.
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at od ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
"Dubliners" was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" began to appear in the journal "Egoist" under the auspi ...Show more
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and end ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature -- "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife". Its manuscript was initially called First Impressions, but was never pub ...Show more