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Macbeth by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Shakespeare's Macbethis one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the a ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Collector's Edition) by Austen J
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. 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 cheer ...Show more
Midsummer Night's Dream by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night's Dreamone of the most popular of Shakespeare's works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd a ...Show more
Moby Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE
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Category: Childrens Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'. Moby Dickis 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 diabo ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dallowayheralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experience ...Show more
Oliver Twist (Collector's Edition) by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers.With Oliver Twisthis reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, despe ...Show more
Persuasion (Collector's Edition) by Jane AUSTEN
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of ...Show more
Picture of Dorian Gray by OSCAR WILDE
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature -- "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife". Its manuscript was initially called First Impressions, but was never pub ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by DANIEL DEFOE
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoehas been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, oper ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
LARGE PRINT EDITION. Romeo and Juliet (1597) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Inspired by an Italian tale adapted for an English audience in 1562 by Arthur Brooke and in 1567 by William Painter, Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet sometime between 1591 and 1595. Alongside Hamlet, it is one of Shakesp ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Edition) by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including ...Show more