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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Category: Kids Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and respons ...Show more
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer. Ho ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic o ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with ...Show more
Virgin and the Gypsy & Other Stories by D.H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one exception written and published in the latter half of the 1920s, coinciding with the composition of Lawrence's controversial masterpiece Lady Chatterley's Lover. At this time Lawrence declared himself to be 'rea ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. ...Show more
Wind in the Willows (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Kenneth Grahame
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Category: Kids Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his 'Poop-poop-poop' road-hogging new motor car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and ...Show more
Women in Love by D H Lawrence
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 | Reading Level: good-very good
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