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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Collector's Edition) by William Shakespeare
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Category: classics | 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
Alice in Wonderland by LEWIS CARROLL
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Category: middle reader | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and id ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. MONTGOMERY
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Category: classics | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a ...Show more
Christmas Carol (Cloth-bound HB) by Charles Dickens
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Category: middle reader | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Collectors Edition) by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart..."Crime and Punishmentis one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn ...Show more
Emma by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married ...Show more
Frankenstein (Collector's Edition) by MARY SHELLEY
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1818 first edition text of the novel, introduced and annotated by J. Paul Hunter. Three maps and eight illustrations. A wealth of source and contextual materials, thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics include "Sources, Influences, Ana ...Show more
Great Gatsby by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge ), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsbyis F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with ...Show more
Greek Myths & Legends: Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. From the birth of Zeus, to Prometheus, Pandora and Helen of Troy, Odysseus and Jason and the Argonauts, the myths of the Greeks and, later, the Romans, are passionate and powerfully told. The Gods are jealous of each other's powers, subject to mighty outbursts of love and a ...Show more
Hamlet (Wordsworth Collector's Edition) by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Collector's Edition) by Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Bronte
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Category: middle reader | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart!' Orphaned at a young age, Jane Eyre is foisted upon unfriendly relations, sent to school to suffer illness, injustice and privation, before ...Show more
Japanese Myths & Legends: Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Legends of the Sea, Bells, Mirrors and Tea, Japanese mythology is delightful and enigmatic, full of spirits, gods and legendary creatures. It draws on Buddhist and Shinto traditions to explain the nature of the world of the island of Japan, the mystical Mount Fuji and the h ...Show more