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The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet Major is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the impact of historical events on the immemorial local way of life - the glamour of the coming of George III and his soldiery, fears of ...Show more
The Velveteen Rabbit & Other Animal Adventures (Wordsworth's Children's Classics) by Margery Williams
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Category: 5-8+ Years | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
This endearing edition proudly includes the original telling of the beloved tale, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. Together, we travel alongside the Velveteen Rabbit on his magical journey towards becoming real and discover how he and other toys are brought to life once they are truly loved by ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, ...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
The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary Well-Beloved - in s ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Features Rat, Mole, Badger and Mr Toad and their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall.
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. The Wings of the Dove is a tale of desire and possession, of love and death. It is in essence a simple story, but one that opens up the great subject of art: life itself. To tackle this, James moves between fairytale storylines and the sta ...Show more
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the ...Show more
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
With an Introduction and Notes by Phillip Mallett, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews. Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a movin ...Show more
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
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many langua ...Show more
Three Sea Stories: Typhoon, Falk, the Shadow-line by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance a ...Show more