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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lo ...Show more
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. 'Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, varie ...Show more
The Secret Garden (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: 8-12+ Years | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across h ...Show more
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes by David Stuart Davies
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was ...Show more
The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Few works of American fiction have proved as enduringly popular as Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills. Wright's novel, first published in 1907, was an instant best seller; by 1918 the book had sold over two million copies; the following year it was adapted for the silent screen (the first of ...Show more
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Rudolf Wyss
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Category: 8-12+ Years | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This story tells of the happy discovery of the wonders of natural history by a family shipwrecked on a desert island, who remain united through all the adversities they encounter. Inspired by Robinson Crusoe, this joyful narrative by a Swiss pastor remains a classic tale to be enjoyed by all.
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the mater ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | 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 Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Ha ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
A historical romance, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of ...Show more
The Travels of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The author of dozens of adventure novels and fantastical tales, Robert Louis Stevenson was also an enthusiast of travel, whether wandering on foot through France in the company of a donkey, crossing the plains of North America in a train crammed with emigrants, or cruising under sail with his wife in th ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
When people use the adjective 'Kafkaesque', it is The Trial they have in mind - the nightmarish world of Joseph K., where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and any help there may be comes from unexpected sources. K. is never told what he is on trial for, and when he says he is innoce ...Show more