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100 Selected Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging f ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its l ...Show more
A Room of One's Own & The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
A Room of One’s Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf’s best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society.The essay lays bare the woman artist’s struggle for ...Show more
Aesop's Fables (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Aesop
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
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 fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the manger, the wolf in sheep's clothing and many others - have entered the languages and ...Show more
Agnes Grey by ANNE BRONTE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poign ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them.Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Ra ...Show more
Almayer's Folly and The Rover by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
From the rain forests of Almayer's Folly to the Mediterranean coast of The Rover, Conrad's first and final completed novels are played out against contrasting backgrounds. Almayer, in Borneo, is hopelessly obsessed by his deluded dreams for himself and his daughter, which take no account of her falling ...Show more
Animal Farm by GEORGE ORWELL
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Category: Board Books | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion i ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. 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, d ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a ...Show more
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. 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 po ...Show more
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens is a disturbing and powerful blend of Gothic melodrama and historical realism. This novel was Charles Dickens's first historical novel. Barnaby Rudge was published serially starting in 1840 in Master Humphrey's Clock. The story takes place against the backdrop of the Gor ...Show more