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WORDSWORTH EDITIONS
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The case-book of Serlock Holmes
This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories, reprinted from The Strand Magazine. It contains the short story series Reminiscences of Sherloc...
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Dictionary of Proverbs
Compiled from G.L. Apperson's original and painstaking research of nearly three thousand works dating as far back as the twelfth century and earlier, and built upon the fo...
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The poems and sonnets of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet ...
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Dictionary of Synonyms & Antonyms
..Specially marked colloquial uses...
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Set in 1482, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a compelling story of love and betrayal, brutal deeds and one of the most famous acts of revenge in world literature. Quasimodo...
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The Complete Poems of John Keats
'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued ...
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A child's garden of Verses
This edition, which includes Charles Robinson's charming illustrations and vignettes, is described as the definitive edition by The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature....
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The collected poems of Lord Byron
While the Byronic myth and the Byronic hero have entered both the English language and the collective consciousness wherever English is read, both the poet and his imagery remain elusive. This edition...
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The Book of Spells
First published in 1911 as The Book of Ceremonial Magic, this classic work explains the rites, mysteries and secret traditions of Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Infernal Necrom...
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The collected poems of Oscar Wilde
Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes ...
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Love Poems
This translation of John Dryden (1631-1700) and his contemporaries in a style matchlessly suited to the originals....
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Ultimate Cocktail Book
The Ultimate Cocktail Book is more than a reference guide, it's a concocter's companion and a source of enlightenment. A volume tailor-made, in short, for good mixers....
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The Rainbow
The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within this framework Lawrence’s essential concern is with ...
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The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus
Who was Nostradamus, and what faith should we place in his predictions? This book gives objective answers. It reveals that Michel de Nostredame, a 16th-century French doct...
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The complete poems of Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled cons...
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Robin Hood
Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time. In this edition Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest - Robin himself, Little John, Fr...
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The Concise Gray's Anatomy
As Dr. Leonard himself wrote of this book, 'the larger portion of the work is simply 'Gray' condensed and transposed', while he also acknowledged his debt to Brown's Aid to Anatomy and Bryant's System...
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The Selected Poems of William Blake
William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wor...
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The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laurea...
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Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary
Bungalow, pyjamas, tiffin, rickshaw, veranda, curry, cheroot, chintz, calico, gingham, mango, junk and catamaran are all words which have crept into the English language f...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass
This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books fo...
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a pure tragedy of youth told in verse that is both youthful and intense. The loveliness and the music of the poetry make believable the otherwise commonplace afflictions of blighte...
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The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 ...
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The Poems of Robert Browning
Robert Browning (1812-1889) represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and Tennyson. His poetry demonstrates how a poet must...
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The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats
Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet, W.B.Yeats began writing with the inte...
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Book of Urban Legend
Rodney Dale started collecting Urban Legends half a century ago - long before they were identified as such. This rich collection, with its introduction to the sorts of tales we tell, will enthral and ...
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Book of Humorous Quotations
From Oscar Wilde's witty observation in Lady Windermere's Fan that 'I can resist everything except temptation', to Zsa Zsa Gabor's admission that 'I know nothing about sex, because I was always marrie...
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Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in priva...
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Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters - a genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire ...
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The Voyage of Beagle
In addition, The Voyage of the Beagle displays Darwin's powerful, speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relation between the Earth's structure, animal forms, anthropol...
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The Phantom of the opera
One of the greatest horror stories of all time, The Phantom of the Opera makes compulsive reading. It abounds with wonderful descriptions, extraordinary events, tragedy, h...
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The Collected Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterized as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His ...
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The Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Bor...
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The Works of John Donne
John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form of verse re-made English poetry. Donne’s poe...
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The complete fairy tales. Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer...
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Dictionary of Modern English Grammar
It explains the workings of 21st-century English, from the most basic rules of grammar and spelling to the origins of the language in the ancient world, and the curiosities of current slang. Included ...
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French Dictionary
A general-purpose dictionary, suitable for a great variety of both English and French speakers at all levels of proficiency, providing over 85,000 entries. As well as ever...
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The Art of War/The Book of Lord Shang
The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Pri...
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Thesaurus
This dictionary adopts a fresh approach by going beyond the mere listing of words as in an ordinary thesaurus. Differences between similar words are highlighted to show the various shades of meaning s...
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The man in the iron mask
Dumas, the master storyteller, keeps us reading until the climactic scene in the grotto of Locmaria, a fitting conclusion to the epic saga of the musketeers....
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The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artifi...
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The Complete Hoyle's Games
Ever since the middle of the Eighteenth Century, 'according to Hoyle' has been an expression of fair and rule-abiding play. In an age when more and more people are rejecti...
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis...
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Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify exi...
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Macbeth
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 t...
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Tao Te Ching
Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings sh...
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The hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phanto...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms is a compact guide through this fascinating linguistic maze. It not only gives the meanings of idiomatic expressions in simple form, but gives also example sentence...
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900. Freud is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis, th...
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The Origin of Species
'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox th...
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent...
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The Plays of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a wi...
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Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) studied at Cambridge and became an apothecary, physician and astrologer in London. Whilst only the imprudent would follow his dictates today without question, the Herbal ...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequ...
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Complete Novels of Jane Austen
Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose....
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Dictionary of Quotations
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations is an essential work of reference for every writer, journalist and speech-maker, as well as being a treasure-trove for the browser and the simply curious. From ...
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the ...
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The brothers Grimm. Complete Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witc...
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Dictionary of Drink
The book is laced with historical anecdotes, a thousand cocktail recipes, essays on topics from the Guiness dynasty to the principles of brewing, from the discovery of distilling to the history of exi...
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Madame Bovary
Flaubert's meticulous approach to the craft of fiction, his portrayal of contemporary reality, his representation of an unforgettable cast of characters make Madame Bovary one of the major landmarks o...
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Ghost stories of Henry James
This edition includes all ten of his ghost stories, and as such is the fullest collection currently available. The stories range widely in tone and type. They include 'The Jolly Corner', a compelling ...
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The Dictionary of Abbreviations & Acronyms
Like it or not, abbreviations and acronyms are now an essential ingredient of everyday life. Since the first edition of The Wordsworth Dictionary of Abbreviations & Acrony...
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Tess of the d' Urbervilles
It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her search for respectability her fortunes...
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The Complete Poems of D.H.Lawrence
Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctioned, ...
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Essential Angler
However, armed with this volume, as readable and relevant today as any contemporary manual, 'let there be clear water, clear weather and clear scope for observation' and any enthusiast may pit his or ...
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The Golden Bough
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) is rightly regarded as one of the founders of modern anthropology. The Golden Bough, his masterpiece, appeared in twelve volumes betwee...
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Pride and Prejudice
With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language....
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales tells the story of 30 pilgrims who meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, London, and journey together to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. To pass t...
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The Moonstone
The phlegmatic Sergeant Cuff is called in, and with the help of Betteredge, the Robinson Crusoe-reading loquacious steward, the mystery of the missing stone is ingeniously solved....
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Dickens Dictionary
The Wordsworth Dickens Dictionary gives a comprehensive account of Dickens's writings and characters, and presents a chronology of his life and times. As well as providing a mine of information for st...
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Wives and daughters
Focusing on two families, the Gibsons and the Hamleys, this novel describes the habits, loyalties, prejudices, petty snobberies, rumours and adjustments of a whole countryside hierarchy....
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The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley
Shelley’s short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition of his day, a...
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Jane Eyre
However, there is great kindness and warmth in this epic love story, which is set against the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire moors....
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The count of Monte Cristo
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 str...
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Selected Works of Joseph Conrad
This volume also includes a selection of Conrad's matchless short stories - Youth, Typhoon, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether and The Shadow-Line...
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Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this pro...
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The collected poems of Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. Hi...
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Our mutual friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not ...
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A little Princess
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became show pupil - a little princess. Then her father ...
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The complete works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello a...
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Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is, for Russians, their greatest writer; Eugene Onegin is his greatest work. Yet it remains little known outside Russia. Attempts to render Pushkin's Russian stanzas into...
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Dictionary of Spelling
Helpful: 175 panels showing spelling rules and tips...
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The collected poems of John Milton
This edition contains all his poems in English, with introduction and notes by Laurence Lerner (formerly Professor of English, University of Sussex)...
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The Great Gatsby
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the roaring twenties , and a devastating expose of the Jazz Age . Through the narration of ...
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The Winter's Tale
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...
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The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology
Walter Skeat (1835-1912) was one of the greatest investigators of the roots of the English language, and his remarkable scholarship was instrumental in the revival of the great works of early English ...
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Dictionary of Idioms
Written by leading British lexicographer Martin H. Manser, it will be found useful by all speakers of English. Those with English as their native language will be reminded of the wide range of phrases...
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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase & Fable explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the pro...
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Devil's Dictionary
Originally entitled The Cynic's Word Book, this justly infamous volume was re-titled The Devil's Dictionary in 1911 and addressed to 'enlightened souls who prefer dry wine...
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The English-German, German-English Dictionary
This dictionary covers nearly 95,000 words, and concentrates on the contemporary language. It offers coverage of commercial and technical vocabulary, giving full grammatic...
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Concise English Dictionary
Impressively comprehensive, this dictionary contains 121,000 references and over 156,000 definitions, together with copious and invaluable appendices consisting of conversion tables, mathematical symb...
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Sense and sensibility
Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a ferv...
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Mansfield park
The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggi...
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The shorter novels of Charles Dickens
Great Expectations traces the life of Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man of character. From its dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with memorable ...
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Wordsworth & Coleridge Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems
Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800) constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject-matter and its anti-conventional language. Those volumes and Wordsworth's and Coleridge's oth...
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Dictionary of Beliefs and Religions
With 2,900 concise, informative entries from Aaron (Moses’ elder brother) to Zurvan (a Zoroastrian God of Time), the Wordsworth Dictionary of Belief and Religions provides...
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The Prince
Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth centu...
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Far from the Madding Crowd (deluxe)
Far from the Madding Crowdis perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elu...
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Bleak house
In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective bot...
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Tales of Troy and Greece
Also included in this book are the adventures of Theseus and his dramatic battle with the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne, and the quest of Jason for the Golden Fleece with the help of the Princess ...
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The Wordsworth Companion to Literature in English
Clear explanations of genres, movements, critical terms and literary concepts are given - from irony to structuralism, from romanticism to Science Fiction. There are descriptive entries for major work...
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The Wordsworth Rhyming Dictionary
The Wordsworth Rhyming Dictionary contains over 80,000 rhyming words divided into single, double and triple rhymes to form a poet’s, speechmaker’s and writer’s vade-mecum. It includes a major section ...
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The age of Innocence
In 1921 The Age of Innocence achieved a double distinction - it won the Pulitzer Prize and it was the first time this prestigious award had been won by a woman author....
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Northanger Abbey
In this, her first full-length novel, Austen also fixes her sharp, ironic gaze on other kinds of contemporary novel, especially the Gothic school made famous by Ann Radcliffe. Catherine's reading beco...
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Spanish Dictionary
A general purpose dictionary suitable for a great variety of both English and Spanish speakers at all levels of proficiency, this volume contains over 100,000 entries - co...
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Advanced Learners Dictionary
The surprising origins of words and phrases such as 'Beefeaters' 'between the devil and the deep blue sea' and the disease named after a shepherd in an Italian poem mean that The Wordsworth Advanced L...
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Aesop's fables
Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual f...
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The Original Illustrated 'Strand' Sherlock Holmes
It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The...
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Call of the wild & white fang
Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang vividly describe the brutal and vigorous life of the Far North. Call of the Wild describes the extraordinary adventures of a dog who escapes civilisation to lead...
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Tales from King Arthur
In this selection of plays by the master folklorist Andrew Lang, the reader is taken into the romantic world of the gallant Knights of the Round Table and their courageous...
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The Wordsworth Crossword Companion
The Wordsworth Crossword Companion incorporates many special features: Clear guidance on how to recognize and work out anagrams and how to decipher cryptic clues. Thousand...
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Selected works of the Bronte Sisters
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall shows Ann Bronte's bold, naturalistic and passionate style. It is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin and betrayal. It portrays the...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial p...
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The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry
was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and his fellow poets - Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley and many others - that we ...
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Measure for Measure
In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Measu...
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Treasure island
When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails ...
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
A watershed in twentieth-century literary fiction because of its sensational content, the novel has earned for itself an enduring readership and lasting notoriety....
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To the lighthouse
To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is at ...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
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 en...
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Death of an Army
After the battle, only nine of Sir John French's eighty-four infantry battalions mustered even half strength. But the costly act of suicide in this battle prevented the German breakthrough to Calais, ...
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Three Men in a boat
This comic novel describes the boating expedition on the Thames of three friends and their dog, Montmerency. The difficulties and vicissitudes of these innocents abroad ar...
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The Wordsworth Thesaurus
Set in clear, easy-to-read type and with over 150,000 entries, this accessible thesaurus will provide the user with the precise word exactly when it is needed. This edition has been fully revised to i...
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Daniel Deronda
Eliot's radical dual narrative constantly challenges all solutions and ensures that the novel is as controversial now, as when it first appeared....
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The Great Comedies and Tragedies
'Not for an age but for all time'. So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare's unique place among the world's great authors. Romeo and Juliet shows us the archetypal story of...
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Three Plays. Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah
Athaliah, written for the schoolgirls of St Cyr, is considered by many the most perfect example of French classical tragedy. It shows us the downfall of the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, Baal-worshipp...
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The Dictionary of Mythology
This encyclopaedic guide includes gods from ancient civilizations such as Aphrodite, Quetzacoatl and Vishnu, and legendary heroes from Achilles to Visvamitra, in an A-Z of...
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As You Like It
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusi...
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Dictionary of Pub Names
The local pub is an institution unique to the British Isles, but since English literature abounds with references to hostelries past and present, real and imagined, and no tourist's itinerary is compl...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of First Names
The approach is concise and up-to-date, and it will appeal to all who need a reliable source of reference, as well as those who are interested in discovering more information about a particular name, ...
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Piers Plowman
The poem survives in at least three versions. Terence Tiller's verse translation of the B-text is based on his abridgement of the poem for radio in 1980. Himself a poet, Tiller vividly conveys the col...
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Faust and the Urfaust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a poet, playwright and novelist. He trained as a lawyer but his heart was not in the profession. He then held an important cabinet post at the ducal court in...
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Moby Dick
Moby-Dick is 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 diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a...
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The Virgin and the Gipsy & Other Stories
These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one exception written and published in the latter half of the 1920s, coinciding with the composition of Lawrenc...
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Tales of mystery and imagination
This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic horror of The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of U...
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The Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Modern English Usage is H.W.Fowler's masterpiece of explication and guidance in the usage, style, spelling and punctuation of the English language. This edition is taken f...
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The Dictionary of the Occult
It covers the story and the nature of occultism, details the great occult figures of the past - Bacon, Bohme, Hiram, Nostradamus, Paracelsus and Swedenborg, as well as more modern practitioners such a...
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The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume 1
Arm yourself with a copy of Abdul Alhazred's fabled Necronomican and prepare to face terrors beyond the wildest imaginings of all save H.P. Lovecraft...
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Complete Children's Short Stories
In Kipling's rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, M'Turk and the Beetle are a trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules, their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal...
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Twilight of the Idols/Antichrist/Ecce Homo
In The Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Ecce Homo Nietzsche writes at breakneck speed of his provenance, his adversaries and his hopes for mankind; the books are largely epigrammatic and aph...
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Henry V
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film....
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Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to ...
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The English-Spanish, Spanish-English Dictionary
This dictionary contains over 115,000 references and 200,000 translations , and extensive coverage of common, technical and scientific vocabulary. The emphasis throughout ...
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Silas Marner
Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe...
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The Travels of Marco Polo
Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels rec...
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The merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. The text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contra...
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Chapman's Homer: The Iliad and The Odyssey
Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer ...
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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways i...
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Metamorphoses
Ovid's Metamorphoses, completed around AD8, shows the presence and prevalence of change in the world. Beginning with chaos and creation, Ovid embraces a vast array of mythological tales within his the...
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The Battle of Jutland
Captain Bennett has used sources previously unavailable to historians in his reconstruction of the Battle of Jutland, including the papers of Vice-Admiral Harper explaining why his official record of ...
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North and South
Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to...
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Anna Karenina
Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels,- of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable con...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Dreams
10,000 entries cover Bananas to Cauliflowers, Measles to Mustard and Virgins to Zebras....
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The best of Sherlock Holmes
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 se...
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Washington square
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...
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The Tempest
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 form...
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. ...
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The Concise English Dictionary
The dictionary contains 121,000 references and over 156,000 definitions and this comprehensive work is completed with copious appendices: conversion tables, mathematical symbols, the Greek alphabet, R...
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The Woman in White (deluxe)
The intricate plot is peopled with a finely characterised cast, from the peevish invalid Mr Fairlie to the corpulent villain Count Fosco and the enigmatic woman herself....
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The Dictionary of Science & Technology
This volume is a reference for scientists, technologists, researchers, students and the general reader. It contains 45,000 entries covering 100 fields of activity embracin...
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The Taming of the Shrew
The comic plot of this play revolves around the taming of the virago Katherina by the insouciant Petruchio, a strong-minded and witty Veronese on the make. Underneath this...
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The Dictionary of Culinary & Menu Terms
Rodney Dale has assembled and arranged a rich diet of terms used for ingredients and recipes which are encountered in cuisine world-wide. This pabular vocabulary will be eagerly embraced by all those ...
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Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer. His colourful work, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is, along ...
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The Book of Sonnets
This broad selection of sonnets from the fourteenth to the twentieth century is arranged thematically, and ranges from the love sonnets of the early masters to those about despair, faith, the spirit o...
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Book of Opera
This concise and comprehensive guide is designed to meet the needs of today's opera lover. It contains synopses of eighty-three major operas by forty-one composers from Mo...
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Adam Bede
Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of ...
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The Prophet
The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Ch...
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Pollyanna
When Polyanna Whittier goes to live with her sour-tempered aunt after her father's death, things seem bad enough, but then a dreadful accident ensues. However, Pollyanna's...
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Shakespeare
It covers every play, including its theatrical history, a scene-by-scene synopsis and a commentary, every character in every play, Shakespeare's contemporaries, theatrical terms and Shakespearean acto...
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Children of the night: Classic Vampire Stories
However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the Old Gentleman who rides on it. They befriend the porter, Perks, and through him learn r...
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The Plays
If Shakespeare had died at the age Marlowe died, there would have been no question that Marlowe was the leading figure in English Renaissance drama. This edition of all his plays shows why. The plays ...
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Selected works of Virginia Woolf
'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', said Woolf of The Waves. Regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and...
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Right Hand of Doom & Other Tales of Solomon Kane
Immune to the attractions of the opposite sex, he seems drawn by some psychological distress beacon to places where he knows only that he will be called upon to defend the helpless or (more often) exa...
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
This edition presents the classic free translation by Edward Fitzgerald of the great Persian poem by the 12th century astronomer and poet - Omar Khayyam. Fitzgerald's masterful translation was first p...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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 se...
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The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, here illustrated throughout the inner pages b...
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The 1916 Battle of the Somme
The 1916 Battle of the Somme is not restricted to the view of the front-line infantryman, it also relates the experiences of the gunner, sapper, airman, medical officer, and nursing sister. The author...
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The Little Prince
First published in 1943, the year before the author's death in action, this translation contains Saint-Exupery's delightful illustrations....
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Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular for over a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity of happiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Admirers have found his wor...
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Selected Works of D.H. Lawrence
Other stories featured in this volume include The Captain's Doll, The Fox, The Ladybird, St Mawr, The Princess, The Virgin and the Gypsy and The Escaped Cock....
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Meditations
The Meditations of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are a readable exposition of the system of metaphysics known as stoicism. Stoics maintained that by putting aside great passions, unjust thoughts and...
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What Maisie Knew
The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. For all its sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a co...
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English Fairy Tales
Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different tradition...
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Tender is the night
Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the Roaring Twenties . A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The...
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The Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain
Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned...
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The Plumed Serpent
Caught up in the plans of these two men to revive the old Aztec religion and political order, she submits to the 'blood-consciousness' and phallic power that they represent....
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Selected Short Stories
This specially commissioned selection of Conrad's short stories includes favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost of Progress,...
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Flying Colours
One of Churchill's 'Few' in the Battle of Britain, a prisoner-of-war in Colditz Castle, a successful businessman, an inspiration to the disabled, a writer, and friend to many of the world's leading st...
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Dubliners
Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt pol...
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The Aeneid
'Something greater than the Iliad is being brought to birth', wrote Virgil's contemporary Propertius, in Western literature's most famous flourish of advance publicity. The Aeneid was published after ...
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Frankenstein
Begun when the author was only eighteen and conceived from a nightmare, Frankenstein, is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers since its first pub...
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Kidnapped
Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped tells of how young David Balfour, orphaned, and betrayed by his uncle Ebenezer who should have been his guardian, falls in with Alan Bre...
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Short stories from the Nineteenth Century
Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies, featuring tales by Charles...
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Sons and Lovers
This semi-autobiographical novel explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. It is a ...
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Dracula's Guest & Other Stories
This unique collection of Stoker's short fiction provides a feast for those who like to be unnerved as well as entertained....
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The French-English/English-French Dictionary
The explanatory Preface, the List of Abbreviations and the 'How to use the Dictionary' pages are all presented in both English and French, and there are over 85,000 references, with some 150,000 trans...
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The Loved Dead: Collected Short Stories Volume II
The Loved Dead is a book for every true Lovecraft aficionado...
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Pinocchio
Carved by Old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. And Pinocchio is such a scamp that he gets into all sorts of mischief. He runs away and joins a c...
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The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her cl...
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The Secret Garden
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 her sickly cousi...
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The jungle book
This edition contains many of the original drawings by Rudyard Kipling's father, and includes Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Kipling's wonderful story of the duel between the mongoose and Nag the cobra, as well as...
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Little Women
Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy ...
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Under the Greenwood tree
Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy ...
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The Voyages of Captain Cook
Cook's three voyages of discovery, which took place between 1768 and 1779, are among the most remarkable achievements in the history of exploration. Cook charted vast areas of the globe with astonishi...
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Collection of Classic Romances
Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, a poor village girl, her relationships with two very different men, ...
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Cranford & Other Stories
As diverse in setting as in subject matter, these tales move from the gentle comedy of life in a small English country town in Dr Harrison’s Confessions, to atmospheric horror in far north-west Wales ...
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Fathers and sons
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal th...
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The Social Contract
Some have seen in this the promise of a free and equal relationship between society and the individual, while others have seen it as nothing less than a blueprint for totalitarianism. The Social Contr...
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The Mill on the floss
Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it, and the result, on more than one level, is tragedy....
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Satyricon
The Satyricon of Petronius, Nero's Tutor in Refinement, recounts the sexual adventures of the comic rogue Encolpius (Mr Groin) and his companions - the pretty boy Giton (Neighbour), the formidable Asc...
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The Holy Qur'an
The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it...
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Symposium and the Death of Socrates
These dialogues have never been offered in one volume before. Tom Griffith's Symposium has been described as 'possibly the finest translation of any Platonic dialogue'. All the other translations are ...
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Ethics
Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death ...
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The turn of the screw & the Aspern papers
The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural. The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Euro...
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Four Late Plays
Written late in Shakespeare's life, these plays delightfully exhibit his interest in the conventions of the fairy-tale. They are tales of enchantment, heard from afar and seen through a fine gauze. In...
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Decameron
Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. Boccaccio makes ...
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Shirley
This work is set among the cloth mills of the author's native Yorkshire. It portrays the drama of the latter part of the Napoleonic Wars when labour-saving machinery was s...
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A pair of blue eyes
The loving nature of the heroine, Elfride Swancourt, pervades this novel, which has a singular unpolished charm....
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Don Quixote
According to tradition Cervantes first conceived his comic masterpiece in jail - his avowed intent being to debunk the romances of chivalry. From first publication Don Quixote was a best-seller, initi...
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Key Philosophical Writings
Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity. Breaking...
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Democracy in America
Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential te...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Merry Men is a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks and madness; Markheim, the sinister study of the mind of a murderer; Thrawn Janet, a spine-chilling tale of demonic possession; Olalla a study o...
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King Solomon's Mines
In one of the finest adventure stories of its age, Quatermain, with touches of humour and great excitement, tells the tale of their struggle through unmapped Africa in pursuit of unimaginable wealth....
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Women in love
Without directly referring to the war, Women in Love explores these questions with restless energy. As a sequel to The Rainbow, the novel develops experimental techniques which made Lawrence one of th...
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The Waves
In pure stream-of-consciousness style, Woolf presents a cross-section of multiple yet parallel lives, each marked by the disintegrating force of a mutual tragedy. The Waves is her searching exploratio...
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A portrait of the artist as a young man
This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, he must rid himself o...
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Jude the Obscure
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilm...
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The last of the Mohicans
Cooper’s novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain, skirmishes, treachery and brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists and the native peoples. Through...
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Midway: The Incredible Victory
They had to right ot win. Yet they did, and in so doing they changed the course of the war. More than that, they added a new name - Midway - to that small list that inspires men by example - Marathon,...
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The Pickwick papers
The Pickwick Papers is Dickens first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular ...
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Rob Roy
Rob Roy is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first Jacobite rising of 1715. Rob Roy is a swashbuckling chieftain of the Cl...
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Gulliver's Travels
It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit, and its attack on political and financial corruption, as well as abuses in science, continue to resonate in our own times....
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The return of the native
The central figure of this novel is the returning native , Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye. As character after character is driven to self-destruction, the ...
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Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685). It is also a moving love story told...
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Women in love
Without directly referring to the war, Women in Love explores these questions with restless energy. As a sequel to The Rainbow, the novel develops experimental techniques which made Lawrence one of th...
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The Wizard of Oz
When a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever aga...
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Terror by Night
Poverty and religion of the extreme variety were the two chief influences on young Ambrose's childhood. He not only hated this period of his life, he also developed a deep hatred for his family and th...
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The old curiosity shop
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky aga...
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Hard times
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environm...
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King Lear
King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeare's most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty a...
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The thirty-nine steps
When Richard Hannay returns from a long stay in Africa, he becomes caught up in a sensational plot to precipitate a pan-European war. After a corpse is found in his flat, ...
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Four Novels of George Eliot
Silas Marner tells the tender and moving story of the unjustly exiled linen weaver, Silas Marner of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England. It tells of how he is restored to life and his sad...
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The inferno
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his nat...
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On War
On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at first hand the immense destructive power of the French Revolutionary armies which ...
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The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly...
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The drama of the Scharnhorst
While the epic of the final battle forms the core of his narrative, Fritz-Otto Busch also depicts life aboard the 32,000-ton warship and records her short, eventful history from her launching in 1939 ...
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The Book of Hymns
The Wordsworth Book of Hymns is a fresh anthology of favourite hymns. This inspiring selection has such time-honoured favourites as the harvest 'We plough the fields and scatter', the Christmas 'O com...
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Lord Jim
Lord Jim explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit....
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Dracula
'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mou...
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The Battle of Loos
Philip Warner's narrative is brought to life through the words of survivors from all parts of the line: the infantry, the gunners, the officers, and including extracts from the letters and diaries of ...
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The professor
This is Charlotte Bronte's first novel, and is based on her own experiences in Brussels. The story is one of love and doubt as the hero, William Crimsworth, seeks his fort...
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Robinson Crusoe
Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all a...
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Peter Pan
The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never L...
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Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories
In the early story 'Family Happiness', Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife. In 'The Kreutzer Sonata' he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown, in ...
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The secret agent
Conrad's 'monstrous town' is London, and his story of espionage and counter-espionage, anarchists and embassies, is a detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc's tenacity in maintaining ...
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Villette
This novel is based on the author's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and positi...
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Father Brown
This collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympat...
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Much Ado about nothing
Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broade...
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Uncle Tom's cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe’s rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and re...
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Oliver Twist
Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desp...
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The Island of Sheep
In this, his final adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the torme...
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Life's little Ironies
The tales which make up Life's Little Ironies tenderly re-create a rapidly vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. They share the many concerns of Hardy's...
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Don Quixote
Cervantes' greatest work can be enjoyed on many levels, all suffused with a subtle irony that reaches out to encompass the reader....
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Tales from the Arabian nights
This is the background to the Arabian Nights. In this selection made by that master of folklore and fairy-tale Andrew Lang, the reader meets Aladdin with his wonderful lamp, the Enchanted Horse, the P...
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The Confessions
When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a mor...
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The Trumpet-Major
He interweaves a compelling, bitter-sweet romantic love story of the rivalry of two brothers for the hand of the heroine Anne Garland, played out against the loves of a lively gallery of other charact...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) relates Thomas De Quincey's early life and experiences of opium addiction at the time when that drug was widely used for the r...
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The Collected Short Stories of Saki
'We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart'...
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Persuasion
A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth...
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Collected Ghost Stories
As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R.James, Stories I Have Tried to Write, which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are Casting the Runes, Oh, Whistle and I'll come...
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The Aeneid
Hailed by T.S. Eliot as 'the classic of all Europe', Virgil's Aeneid has enjoyed a unique and enduring influence on European literature, art and politics for the past two thousand years....
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A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four
The Sign of Four, the second Holmes novel, presents the detective with one of his greatest challenges. The theft of the Agna treasure in India forms a catalyst for treachery, deceit and murder....
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorse...
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The Golden Bowl
Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed a...
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Njal's Saga
The saga is remarkable not only for the details of everyday life - the farming, the feasting and the charcoal-burning - but also for the social structure of the society in which that life took place -...
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Alice in Wonderland
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too, are...
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Emma
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with specul...
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The Woodlanders
Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice prove...
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Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education has been described both as the first modern novel and as a novel to end all novels. Weaving a poignant love story into his account of the 1848 revolution, Flaubert shows a societ...
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (deluxe)
It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her search for respectability her fortunes...
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Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories
Also featured in this volume are The Cut-Glass Bowl, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, An Alcoholic Case, The Lees of Happiness, The Lost Decade and Babylon Revisited...
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories
Also included in this volume are seven of Stephen Crane's short stories. The Monster is a novelette which provides a bitter commentary on man's inhumanity to man; The Blue Hotel, a tale of murder in a...
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Ivanhoe
Scott explores the conflicts between the Crown and the powerful Barons, between the Norman overlords and the conquered Saxons, and between Richard and his scheming brother, Prince John. At the same ti...
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De Profundis. The balland of reading Gaol & other writings
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898. This collection also includes the essay The S...
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The Woman in White
The intricate plot is peopled with a finely characterised cast, from the peevish invalid Mr Fairlie to the corpulent villain Count Fosco and the enigmatic woman herself....
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Tales of Unease
In these twilight excursions, Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by The...
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Charles Dickens
However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the Old Gentleman who rides on it. They befriend the porter, Perks, and through him learn r...
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Nostromo
Nostromo is an extraordinary illustration of the impact of foreign commercial exploits on a young developing nation, and the problems of reconciling individual identity with a social role....
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Heidi
It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, and eventually it is arranged that Heidi sho...
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The Thin Yellow Line
The summary execution by firing squad of confused and shell-shocked British soldiers in the First World War still arouses heated passions over eighty years later. Calls for posthumous pardons are stil...
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The best short stories
This collection reflects Maupassant's remarkable diversity, with stories that vary in theme and tone, and range from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. Boule de Suife...
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illust...
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Orlando
At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 1...
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The scarlet letter
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 ju...
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Crime and punishment
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is...
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Middlemarch
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Waterloo
Christopher Hibbert creates portraits of Napoleon and Wellington, of the French, English and Prussian armies, and a strategical, step-by-step reconstruction of the events that led up to the battle of ...
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Greenmantle
Greenmantle continues the thrilling adventures of Richard Hannay from convalescence following the Battle of Loos, back to London for a vital meeting at the Foreign Office ...
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Business in Great Waters
John Terraine concentrates on the combatants themselves, both German and Allied, but does not overlook the three main factors in the equation - the political, the military and the technological, as we...
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Slim The Standard Bearer
Ronald Lewin's prize-winning biography charts Bill Slim's life from humble beginnings through World War I, the inter-war years in India to his leadership of the 14th Army in Burma. Here, from 1943-5, ...
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The portrait of a Lady
Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her ...
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The Deerslayer
The other Leatherstocking Tales in chronological order, though not in order of composition, are The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie...
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Billy Budd & Other Stories
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 ...
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Daisy Miller & other stories
American, Daisy Miller, visits Europe with her mother and finds that her freshness and innocence are misinterpreted as immodesty and forwardness. This brings her into conf...
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Les Miserables - Volume Two
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 c...
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Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
Sharing so much in background and character, these two stories, the best of Twain, indisputably belong together in one volume. Though originally written as adventure stories for young people, the vivi...
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The Last Man
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Her mother died ten days...
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The idiot
Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilli...
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Heart of darkness & other stories
Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, th...
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A midsummer night's dream
Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. 'Lord, what fools these mortals be!', jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when Bottom the weaver, his ...
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Felix Holt, the Radical
Felix Holt is set, like Middlemarch in the Midlands at the time of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. This novel brings social and political history vividly to life with its magnificent rendering of provi...
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Haunting of Toby Jugg
No wonder Dennis Wheatley was called “The Prince of Thriller Writers”. ...
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Ethan Frome
An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists, Edith Wharton's characterisation ...
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Histories
Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385...
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Remembrance of Things Past Vol II
Scott Moncrieff's delightful translation was for many years the only access to Proust in English. A labour of love that took him nearly as many years as Proust spent writing the original. Moncrieff's ...
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The String of Pearls
The String of Pearls - the original tale of Sweeney Todd, a classic of British horror - was first published as a weekly serial in 1846-47 by Edward Lloyd, the King of the Penny Dreadfuls. One of the e...
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The Well-Beloved
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 Pierst...
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The Rights of Man
Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, it differs from ...
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The return of Sherlock Holmes
This is the second of three volumes of The Complete Sherlock Holmes reproduced from original copies of The Strand Magazine....
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The lost world & other stories
The science fiction stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stand alongside those of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. The protagonist, the 'cave-man in a lounge suit', is the maddeni...
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The Republic
The Republic deals with the great range of Plato's thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument and myth to advocate a life organ...
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Mons Retreat to Victory
Twice in the 20th century a British Expeditionary Force has taken the field in Northern France to fight beside the French Army at the outbreak of a European War. Twice, by something approaching a mira...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
On its first publication in 1848, Anne Bronte's second novel was criticised for being 'coarse' and 'brutal'. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenges the social conventions of the early nineteenth centu...
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, F...
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Les Miserables - Volume One
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 c...
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Day of Infamy
Walter Lord interviewed nearly 600 participants in the tragic and treacherous attack on the USA's prime Pacific Ocean naval base in the Hawaiian Islands. From about half an hour before the attack to t...
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The Household Companion
Published originally as The Compleat Housewife, Eliza's compendium proved so popular that by 1758, thirty years after her death, it was in its seventeenth edition and famous not only in Britain...
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty had a fine, soft black coat, one white foot and a silver star on his forehead. This tale tells of the horse's adventures and the disappointments and joys that...
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Ben Hur
An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is ...
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Five Jacobean Tragedies
Jacobean Tragedy conjures up potent images for the reader or theatregoer: ghoulish scenes; an obsession with madness, death and decay; stories of lust, murder and betrayal. Below the gaudy surface of ...
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Haunted Hotel & Other Stories
The other stories present equally disturbing scenarios, which include ghosts, corpses that move, family curses and perhaps the most unusual of all, the Devil's spectacles, which bring a clarity of v...
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The Egoist
Meredith's aim was to create a comedy, and there is indeed much to laugh at in this superbly comic tale. Yet with an impressive variety of skills, he satirises many of the assumptions that prevailed i...
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Hamlet
First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with humour, and its subtlety w...
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The Wind in the Willows
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (w...
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The Eighth Passenger
Of nearly 7,500 Lancaster bombers built, no fewer than 3,349 were lost in action - killing nearly half of the young men who flew with Bomber Command....
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Three Hostages
Following the end of the First World War Richard Hannay, the hero of John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle and Mr Standfast, has retired to the Cotswolds with h...
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Well of Loneliness
The Well of Loneliness was banned for obscenity when published in 1928. It became an international bestseller, and for decades was the single most famous lesbian novel. It has influenced how love betw...
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Scenes of Clerical Life
These stories were the first of George Eliot's published work, appearing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1857. This edition is published in conjunction with The George Eliot Fellowship to celebra...
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Three Theban Plays
The story of Oedipus has captured the human imagination as few others. It is the story of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother, a man who by a cruel irony brings these things to pass by...
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Just so stories
These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are. Generatio...
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The Struggle for Europe
This classic account of the allied Victory in Europe in 1945 has been called 'the best single volume history of the war' The Daily Telegraph described it as 'A classic of contemporary history. It is i...
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The Odyssey
This poem has been translated many times over the years, but Chapman's sinewy, gorgeous rendering (1616) stands in a class of its own. Chapman believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself,...
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Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
Από το οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου...
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Book of Horror Stories
From time immemorial, man the world over has drawn upon the worst fears of his conscious and subconscious mind to furnish legends of terrror. In this volume authors such as M.R.James, Le Fanu, Henry J...
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Karamazov Brothers
As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The...
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Wessex tales
Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued ...
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Andersen's Fairy Tales
This collection of over forty of Anderson's most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes ...
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The Great War
In this highly readable and wide-ranging history of the Great War, John Terraine examines it in its entirety, from the Battle of Tanneburg to Gallipoli, from East Africa to the Western Front. Naval ba...
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Strange Tales
This collection presents the best of these strange tales in which ghosts, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound. From the exotic and magical locale of India, to the leafy suburbs of England an...
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The Happy Prince and other stories
In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the help ...
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The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier. It evokes the chaos...
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Utopia
More's 'Utopia' is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to ...
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The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the Chr...
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Dombey and son
Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unf...
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Othello
This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona’s love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In ...
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Martin Chuzzlewit
The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time. This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens' mastery of crime where ...
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Remembrance of Things Past Vol I
Scott Moncrieff's delightful translation was for many years the only access to Proust in English. A labour of love that took him nearly as many years as Proust spent writing the original. Moncrieff's ...
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A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and ...
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War and Peace
Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's philosophy....
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Selected stories
This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comic sketches, as well as examples of his great, mature works. Throughout, the doctor-turned-writer displays compassio...
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The three Musketeers
But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy, Milady, one of literature's most memorable female villains, and Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative skills to bring this enthralli...
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The best short stories
Delusions and obsessions, past lives and the slums of London in 1890 are the diverse topics featured in Many Inventions. While Traffics and Discoveries is Kipling's well-loved story about a polo pony....
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Kim
This novel tells the story of Kimball O' Hara (Kim), who is the orphaned son of a soldier in the Irish regiment stationed in India during the British Raj. It describes Kim...
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Nicholas Nickleby
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of de...
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Twelfth night
The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of Twelfth Night have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, but is...
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Collected works of Oscar Wilde
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children emplo...
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Wagner The Werewolf
First published in 1847, Wagner the Werewolf is one of the very earliest treatments of the Werewolf theme in English literature, and has lost none of its power to shock, it is one of the greatest w...
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Rewards and Fairies
Rewards and Fairies is a collection of stories and a sequel to Puck of Pook's Hill and, as Kipling wrote, 'The tales had to be read by children, before people realised the...
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Journey to the centre of the Earth
Jules Verne's third science fiction novel describes the discovery and exploration of a secret tunnel which leads through a volcano to the centre of the Earth. The leader o...
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Christmas books
Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas...
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The man who would be king and other stories
Other famous short stories included are: Only a Subaltern, The Phantom Rickshaw, Wee Willie Winkie, and Baa Baa Black Sheep....
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Tristram Shandy
The first novel by Sterne, Tristram Shandy illuminates the incongruous behaviour of the individuals who live at Shandy Hall and their neighbours. A novel that has no begin...
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El Alamein
In early 1942, the Axis powers dominated the Allied forces. Tobruk fell to Rommel in June and the Allies prepared to retreat to the Suez Canal. Disaster seemed immininent....
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Great expectations
Considered by many to be Dicken's finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From it...
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Bliss & Other Stories
Bliss is a collection that sparkles with vitality and captures moments of telling significance. Widely recognised as one of the greatest writers of her period, Katherine M...
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Devils
This prophetic account of modern morals and politics, with its fifty-odd characters, amazing events and challenging ideas, is seen by some as Dostoevsky's masterpiece....
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Vanity Fair
Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray exa...
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To The Devil A Daughter
Dennis Wheatley returned in this book to his black magic theme which he had made so much his own with his famous best seller The Devil Rides Out. In the cumulative shock of its revelations, the use of...
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In a glass darkly
In a Glass Darkly is a remarkable collection of tales of the supernatural, in which the patients of Dr Hesselius are plagued by malignant apparitions and vampires, or are ...
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Selected Lives
Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great storytellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter. The heroes of his Lives were the ...
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Complete Nonsense
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 ...
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War and Peace
Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's philosophy....
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Oscar Wilde
However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the Old Gentleman who rides on it. They befriend the porter, Perks, and through him learn r...
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The Iliad
The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling ve...
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The Concise Pepys
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his celebrated diary on 1st January 1660 immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subsequent loosening of the rigid moral and social code...
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Bell in the Fog & Other Stories
Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco in 1857, and died in 1948. She eloped at the age of nineteen, took up writing against her husband's wishes, and after his death...
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The Bhagavadgita
Arguably India's greatest gift to the world, The Bhagavadgita ('The Song of the Blessed') forms an episode in the sixth book of the Hindu epic The Mahabharata and is the supreme work of that religion....
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
In the early years of the 18th century, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. Hogg's sinner, justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained, is suspected of...
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A tale of two cities
This novel traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dicken's based his historical detail on Carlyle's The French Revolution , ...
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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifyin...
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Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
This addition of The Collected Stories brings together all of the stories that Mansfield had written up until her death in January of 1923. With an introduction and head-notes, this volume allow...
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Around the world in eighty days. Five weeks in a ballon
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable and ever capable...
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The Devil Rides Out
Whenever, subsequentley, Dennis Wheatley was asked what he really believed about the supernatural, he would just reply 'Don't meddle!' Few readers will need that warning repeated....
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Beowulf
Marc Hudson's thoughtful modern English version combines readability with detailed attention to both the spirit and the meaning of the original poem....
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Cloud of Unknowing
Written in the fourteenth century and long established as a classic of English devotional literature, The Cloud of Unknowing is an invitation to enter into a place of spiritual darkness, a place where...
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Agnes Grey
This novel is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally-starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-19th century. This is a deeply pe...
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Fanny Hill - Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Fanny's story, as she falls into prostitution and then rises to respectability, takes the form of a confession that is vividly coloured by copious and explicit physiological details of her carnal adve...
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The Way We Live Now
Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of the life of 1870s London, the loves of those drawn to and through the city, and the career of Augustus Mel...
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Also included in this volume are a number of unjustly neglected stories and sketches, with subjects as different as murder and guilt and childhood romance....
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Le Morte Darthur
The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring and influential stories in world literature. Its themes - love, war, religion, treachery and family loyalty - a...
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A Tale of two Cities
This novel traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dicken's based his historical detail on Carlyle's The French Revolution , ...
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Gothic short stories
This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familia...
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David Copperfield
Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this g...
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Upanishads
Upanishads are mankind's oldest works of philosophy, predating the earliest Greek philosophy. They are the concluding part of the Vedas, the ancient Indian sacred literature, and mark the culmination ...
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Perrault's Fairy Tales
The last story, 'Beauty and the Beast', again not by Perrault (it was penned by Mme. Leprince de Beaumont 1711-1781), has a similarity of style and celebrity which justifiably merits its inclusion....
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The Wind in the Willows (deluxe)
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad, have brought delight to many t...
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Classic Short Stories
In this book, Wordsworth Editions presents the modern reader with a rich variety of short stories by a host of towering literary figures ranging from Arnold Bennett to Virginia Woolf. This disparate a...
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Travels in the Interior of Africa
In 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river of which Europeans had no first-hand knowledge. Travels in the interior districts ...
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Tales from Shakespeare
This edition contains the delightful pen-and-ink drawings of Arthur Rackham....
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Puck of Pook's Hill
Puck leads the two children in a series of extraordinary historical adventures in which they meet, Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings. Kipling's charming songs and verses, includi...
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Oriental Ghost Stories
This collection contains the best of the work of this neglected master of the supernatural tale. Prepare to be charmed and chilled in equal measure....
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The Wind in the Willows
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad, h...
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Children's Classic Tales
Tales of Troy and Greece allow Andrew Lang to draw on his classical knowledge to retell the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, the lovely Helen of Troy, Achilles, He...
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Tangled Skein
A threat to Holmes' life, murders on Hampstead Heath, and a strange phantom lady lead Holmes and Watson into the most dangerous investigation they have ever undertaken - an encounter which brings th...
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Best Ghost Stories
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens lifetime. His natural inclination towards drama and the macabre lead him into the telling of ghost tales...
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The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes
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 es...
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Return from the Dead
The main feature on the mummy bill, The Jewel of the Seven Stars by Bram Stoker, is generally regarded as his best work after Dracula. A weird mixture of adventure, the supernatural and science fictio...
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Irish Ghost Stories
Don't attempt to read these horrifying tales alone in an empty house. Your blood will run cold as the unreal becomes real and the impossible all too possible. Indelible images will possess your imagin...
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
This classic tale of a boy's schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr. Arnold has been through hundreds of printings, and retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on first publicati...
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Crimson Blind & Other Stories
Mrs H.D. Everett was the last in a long line of gifted Victorian novelists who knew how to grip the reader through the invasion of everyday life by the abnormal and dramat...
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Jewish Antiquities
The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus represent one of the most important records of Judaism and the Jews that survive from the ancient world. The Jewish Antiquities, his largest historical ...
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New Testament
William Tyndale is the finest English translator of the Bible, and his New Testament one of the most influential works in English Literature. As a young man in pre-Reformation England, where unauthori...
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Tom Jones
Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women. Mis...
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The Diary of a Nobody
The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a Somebody - Charles Pooter of 'The Laurels', Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London - an...
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Vintage Mystery & Detective Stories
Within these pages you will meet such fascinating sleuths as G.K. Chesterton's Mr Pond, Ernest Bramah's remarkable blind detective, Max Carrados, who can read newspapers by allowing his sensitive fing...
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Water Babies
In his new life, he meets all sorts of aquatic creatures, including an engaging old lobster, other water babies, and at last reaches St Branden's Isle where he encounters the fierce Mrs Bedonebyeasyou...
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The History of Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia
These questions,of course, remain open for each generation; but none has discussed them with more wisdom and humanity than Dr. Johnson. Rasselas is a searching and often darkly humorous commentary on ...
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The Children of the New Forest
This is the first enduring historical novel for children, which conjures up as much magic today as it did on first publication. The freedom from adult constraint allied with the necessary disciplines ...
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Irish Fairy Tales
The stories in this book are taken from Joseph Jacob's classic two-volume collection Celtic Fairy Tales (1891-2) and More Celtic Fairy Tales (1894)...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the Old Gentleman who rides on it. They befriend the porter, Perks, and through him learn r...
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The temple of Death
However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the Old Gentleman who rides on it. They befriend the porter, Perks, and through him learn r...
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The Enchanted Castle
This edition of The Enchanted Castle has forty-seven evocative illustrations by H.R. Millar...
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Couching at the Door
Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems – The Second of Septem...
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100 Selected Stories
The variety of the stories is amazing; O Henry is as at home describing life south of the Rio Grande as he is chronicling the activities and concerns of 'the four million' ordinary citizens who inhabi...
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Golden age of myth and legend
Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis...
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The Wordsworth Book of Limericks
While no collection of limericks can claim to be ‘complete', The Wordsworth Book of Limericks contains an astonishing collection of over 1,800 verses - all of them comical...
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The Railway Children
However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the Old Gentleman who rides on it. They befriend the porter, Perks, and through him learn r...
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The Forsyte Saga
The marriage of Soames and Irene disintegrates in bitter recrimination, creating a feud within the family that will have far-reaching consequences....
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The Shadow On The Blind
Lettice Galbraith is herself no less mysterious than the stories she wrote. She appeared on the literary scene in 1893, published a novel and two collections of stories in that year, a further story (...
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The Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories
In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre....
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What Katy Did
Katy Carr is untidy, tall and gangling and lives with her brothers and sisters planning for the day when she will be beautiful and beloved, and amiable as an angel . An a...
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The Coral Island
The story opens with the shipwreck on a Pacific Island of the young friends Ralph Rover and Jack Martin and Peterkin Gray. Despite the pleasurable presence of delicious br...
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Five Children and It
'It' was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When the five children befriend him they find that each wish granted often has a sting in its tail. Golden ...
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Night on the Moor & Other Tales of Dread
If you are looking for a conventional horror story, in which the supernatural element is paramount, try The Crimson Weaver, Dame Inowslad, Witch In-Grain, or A Night on the Moor. If you are more taken...
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Bishop of Hell & Other Stories
But her stories are more subtle in their construction, and often use simple materials ('The Crown Derby Plate', Elsie's Lonely Afternoon'), interweaving their terror and mystery with the commonplace o...
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Mother Goose
Traditional rhymes and stories have been collected under the wing of Mother Goose for centuries and this collection of favourite nursery rhymes has been put together by th...
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The Beetle
Richard Marsh's weird, compelling and highly original novel, which once outsold Dracula, is both a horror masterpiece and a fin de siecle melodrama embracing the fears and concerns of late Victorian s...
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca Randall is one of seven fatherless children, but is full of fun and strange ideas. She leaves her family at Sunnybrook Farm and goes to live with her two aunts in ...
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What Katy Did at School & What Katy Did Next
What Katy Did at School is a compelling tale of the intrigues of life at the New England girls’ boarding school which Katy attends. Her trials and adventures are all interwoven with a sense of fun and...
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Gardening Companion
Gertrude Jekyll grew up wanting to be a painter. Fortunately for all gardeners, she turned to gardening instead, where her love of plants, allied to her eye for colour and...
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A Memoir of Jane Austen
Special thanks to Tony Collins at The Design House for the artwork....
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Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder
These exciting and frightening stories have long been out of print. Now readers can thrill to them again in this new Wordsworth series....
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Thomas Hardy
However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the Old Gentleman who rides on it. They befriend the porter, Perks, and through him learn r...
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Uncanny Stories
Specially included in this volume is The Intercessor (1911), Sinclair's powerful story of childhood and abandoned love, a tale whose intensity compares with that of the Brontes....
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Power of Darkness
In this wonderful collection of eerie, flesh-creeping yarns, we encounter love that transcends the grave, reanimated corpses, vampiric vines, vengeful ghosts and other dark delights to make you feel f...
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Phoenix and the Carpet is E. Nesbit's second fantasy novel and is the sequel to Five Children and It. From Robert, Anthea, Jane and Cyril's new nursery carpet there fa...
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Lady Audley's Secret
It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines. Combi...
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Knock Three Times !
This eerie tale of high adventure has an enduring appeal to all who love to have their blood deliciously curdled....
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