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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
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
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
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. LAWRENCE
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an ...Show more
Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
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 brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exup ry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world ...Show more
Macbeth (Wordsworth Collector's Edition) by William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's Macbethis one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the a ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Collector's Edition) by Austen J
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Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheer ...Show more
Moby Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'. Moby Dickis 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 diabo ...Show more