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Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-t ...Show more
Five Children and It (Psammead #1) (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by E. Nesbit
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Category: Kids Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes...it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur...and it had hands and feet like a monkey's'. 'It' was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
'I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.' A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia ...Show more
From the Earth to the Moon & Around the Moon by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on 'extraordinary voyages.' His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. The popularity of his novels led dire ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most mem ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Kids Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir i ...Show more
Hamlet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a carefu ...Show more
Heart of Darkness & Other Stories by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colon ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a h ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a volcano in Iceland on a journey which will lead them to the centre of the earth. Along the w ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social o ...Show more
Jungle Book and Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgl ...Show more