Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The proverbial phrase 'life's little ironies' was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal of the ...Show more
Count of Monte Cristo by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In hi ...Show more
Animal Farm by GEORGE ORWELL
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion i ...Show more
The Chrysalids (Popular Penguins) by John Wyndham
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God's creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much ...Show more
From the Earth to the Moon & Around the Moon by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on 'extraordinary voyages.' His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. The popularity of his novels led dire ...Show more
The Lost World and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells) are linked by their imposing central character, the pugnaciously adventurous and outrageous Professor Challenger. The Lost World (forebear of Jurassic Park) vividly depicts a perilous region ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions as well as high poetry, blended in such a way as to demonstrate the assured dramatic touch of Shakespeare's maturity. Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned int ...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
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.
Moby Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'. Moby Dickis the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabo ...Show more
There Once Was a Limerick Anthology: Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Woodrow Wilson and Others by Michael Croland (Editor)
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem with a bouncy rhythm, and common varieties include geographical and bawdy limericks as well as tongue twisters and creative misspellings. Limerick legends ...Show more
Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Dickens's final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel's themes ...Show more