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The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary...

Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals...

This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales...

My eyes, perversely shaken open, gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature could even imagine without panic, fear and physical...

Oscar Wilde took London żeby storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism,...

Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written.From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness...

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger...

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies: 'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times...

As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience...

Emma żeby Jane AustenJane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible....

Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the...

Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl's power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years...

The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece....

Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens...

During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building...

When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover a Sleeping...

The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels...

Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes...

Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes...

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...

Contains: Queen Lucia; Miss Mapp; Lucia in London Lucia is one of the great comic characters in English literature. Outrageously pretentious,...

Accessible philosophy on what makes a good life by the "master of those who know" as the poet }Dante{ called Aristotle.

Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse...

Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick...

'...man is not truly one, but truly two.'In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian...

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb was written to be an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', but are much more entertaining...

With an Introduction and Notes żeby James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French...

The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents...

Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's...

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the...

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone,...

'The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled...

In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard II was successful, but now he himself is beset...

Two new fiction classics in the }Wordsworth{ series. }Rasselas{ is a darkly humorous commentary on the human condition. }The Waves{ is an...

This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster,contains the kernel of Nietzsche's...

More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the...

Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval power. The...

The proverbial phrase 'life's little ironies' was coined aby Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess...

Sense and Sensibility aby Jane Austen. 'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving...

In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising...

With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence...

When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have...

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,...

From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind...

Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes...it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare...

The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye....

Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes...

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into...

A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example,...

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly...

Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written żeby an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately...

Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics....

Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its...

Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of...

Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies...

'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,...

The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes...

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through...

A historical romance, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three...

When the Cuthberts send to an orphanage for a boy to help them at Green Gables, their farm in Canada, they are astonished when a talkative...

M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are...

Wordsworth Classic.

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 spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism....

Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young...

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger...

Contains: Mapp and Lucia; Lucia's Progress; Trouble for Lucia These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia...

As in many of Dickens's greatest novels, the gulf between appearance and reality drives the action. Set in the seemingly innocuous cathedral...

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm...

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger...

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a...

This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet...

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its...

Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal...

Alice in Wonderland żeby Lewis Carroll. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit...

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's first and only published novel, written between October 1845 and June 1846, and published in 1847 under...

This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold aby Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.Favourites...

This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected...

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?...

To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches...

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous...

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...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Nominated as...

Introduction and Notes aby John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost...

Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied...

Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination, caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics,...

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions...

Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated...

The two American classics here together in one volume, Little Men and Jo's Boys, are worthy sequels to Little Women, one of the best-loved...

When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have...

This semi-autobiographical novel explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships...

Love, sex and death are the components of Shakespeare's classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers...

The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised...

Northanger Abbey aby Jane Austen tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy,...

John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis...

Collection of twenty tales featuring the super sleuth.

The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. A Nobel prize-winner,...

'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York...

Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever,...

In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only...

This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister...

Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays...

The Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account...

A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose...

A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In Twenty...

These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things...

The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit...

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and...

As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront...

Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel....

Considered żeby many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from...

Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of...

Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth...

This novel traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based...

It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older...