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The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitxgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
One of the greatest stories ever told, "Iliad" has survived for thousands of years because of its insightful portrayal of man and its epic story of war, duty, honor, and revenge.Complete and Unabridged.
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
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Category: Travel | Series: Wordsworth Classics
'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 City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the ...Show more
The Invisible Man/ The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Linda Dryden, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University and the author of Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de Siecle-Literary Scene. At the end of the nineteenth century a stranger arrives in the Sussex countryside and mayhem ensues; in the sl ...Show more
The Lingard Trilogy by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Almayer's Folly was Conrad's outstanding debut novel: as well as exploring the culture of a part of the world previously unknown to English fiction, it showed immense sophistication in its handling of narrative, time-shifts and point of view. Hailed as 'a writer of genius' by contemporary reviewers, Con ...Show more
The Lost World and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells) are linked by their imposing central character, the pugnaciously adventurous and outrageous Professor Challenger. The Lost World (forebear of Jurassic Park) vividly depicts a perilous region ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into wo ...Show more
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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Category: Nature | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extin ...Show more
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of the hero - ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Religion | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon. His languag ...Show more
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of ...Show more