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Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Ulysses is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. It is considered to be one of the most important works of Modernist ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. 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 respons ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic o ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with ...Show more
Virgin and the Gypsy & Other Stories by D.H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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 Lawrence's controversial masterpiece Lady Chatterley's Lover. At this time Lawrence declared himself to be 'rea ...Show more
War of the Worlds / The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened. The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to di ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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Category: History | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book.First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became ...Show more
Well of Loneliness by RADCLYFFE HALL
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
‘As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved…It was good, good, good…’ Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents – a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. A ...Show more
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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 corrupted adult world, this novel is one of James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behaviour of the ch ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father a ...Show more
Women in Love by D H Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a wh ...Show more