Literatura obcojęzyczna Wordsworth Editions

In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised żeby his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts...

Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and equally memorable...

Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination...

Traditional rhymes and stories have been collected under the wing of Mother Goose for centuries and this collection of favourite nursery...

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...

The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth....

}Wordsworth Classic{ set in the Midlands countryside of the nineteenth century.

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...

Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature....

An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal,...

Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime...

War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process...

The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth...

George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth...

The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's...

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...

Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book...

Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert,...

Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds...

The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of Twelfth Night have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot...

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In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries,...

Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The 'Freudian slip',...

Introduction and Notes aby Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations aby George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown...

Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness...

Then the vision of an enormous town prsented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough...

Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written żeby Mary Shelley, it...

Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies....

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...

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....

Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius...

In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized żeby the police and banned...

Persuasion żeby Jane Austen. What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne...

Introduction and Notes żeby Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white...

The Forsyte Saga comprises of The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let, produced in a single volume.

Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is...

New edition with introduction, notes and glossary.

Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic...

James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on...

The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene....

Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds...

Little Women aby Louisa May Alcott is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences....

This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice;...

This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots, instigated aby Lord George Gordon, which...

This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex....

Black Beauty is a perennial children\'s favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic...

Mansfield Park aby Jane Austen. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield...

The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's...

Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne....

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of...

Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance...

The Tempest is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of Shakespeare's late comedies.Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter...

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...

Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven aby acquisitive greed and soulless...

The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century...

Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen's most popular stories...

Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare?s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically...

Based on Charlotte Brontë's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection...

Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant...

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

In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain's ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism...

Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island...

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted żeby a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger...

'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...

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...

The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can...

Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady...

'He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes...turned piteously on himself, as if imploring...

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions as well as high poetry,...

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...

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional...

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its...

This novel is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first Jacobite rising in 1715. Rob Roy...

Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying...

Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge,...

Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many...

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...

With an Introduction żeby Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan...

A new version of John Payne\'s Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through...

This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The...

Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault,...

The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book\'s...

Wordsworth Classics' new 'Best of' series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price....

Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected...

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to...

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly...

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

Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers,...

Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and...

Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero...

The perfect gift for any Bront Sisters lover for only 19.99. Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection...

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...

Great Expectations żeby Charles Dickens. Considered aby many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's...

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly...

Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the...

The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events,...

Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellinton, New Zealand in 1888, she...

Set in the late 21st century and told through the eyes of Lionel Verney the sole surviving man in an world which has been destroyed żeby...

Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart...

First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago,...

In this selection of tales aby the master folklorist Andrew Lang, the reader is taken into the romantic world of the gallant Knights of...

Frances Burnett Hodgson\'s novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing and uplifting. It is regarded as one of the best children's books...