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The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in The Adventures of the Empty House. The stories are ...Show more
Time Machine and Other Works by H. G. Wells
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Wordsworth Classics
In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries later as the richest man in a world of new technologies, power-greedy leaders, sensual el ...Show more
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for youn ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave: Including; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Solomon Northup
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
‘I was sitting upon a low bench, made of rough boards, and without coat or hat. I was handcuffed. Around my ankles also were a pair of heavy fetters. One end of a chain was fastened to a large ring in the floor, the other to fetters on my ankles . . . Then did the idea begin to break upon my mind, at fi ...Show more
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
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless ...Show more
Voyage of the Beagle by CHARLES DARWIN
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Category: Nature | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropica ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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Category: Business & Economics | 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
Women in Love by D H Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love fo ...Show more