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A Christmas Carol (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its l ...Show more
Agnes Grey by ANNE BRONTE
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Category: Kids Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poign ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Kids Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them.Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Ra ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels,- of destiny, d ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics 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
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens is a disturbing and powerful blend of Gothic melodrama and historical realism. This novel was Charles Dickens's first historical novel. Barnaby Rudge was published serially starting in 1840 in Master Humphrey's Clock. The story takes place against the backdrop of the Gor ...Show more
Best of Sherlock Holmes by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davie ...Show more
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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. Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead. Seen through his eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mys ...Show more
Call of the Wild & White Fang by Jack London
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Category: Kids Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian ...Show more
Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens c ...Show more