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Virgin and the Gypsy & Other Stories by D.H. Lawrence
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Category: Wordsworth | 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
Voyage of the Beagle by CHARLES DARWIN
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: good
Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropica ...Show more
Voyages of Captain Cook by James Cook
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Category: Australiana | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Cook's three voyages of discovery, which took place between 1768 and 1779, are among the most remarkable achievements in the history of exploration. Cook charted vast areas of the globe with astonishing accuracy, and the voyages also made a significant contribution towards solving some of the great prob ...Show more
Walden & Civil Obedience by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations - the illusory nature of much of what we call 'progress', the proper symbiotic relationship between man and the natural environment, the limitations of government, especially where it seek ...Show more
War of the Worlds / The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened. The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to di ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
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Category: Wordsworth | 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
Water Babies (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Kingsley
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bo ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book.First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became ...Show more
Well of Loneliness by RADCLYFFE HALL
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics
‘As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved…It was good, good, good…’ Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents – a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. A ...Show more
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. For all its sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupted adult world, this novel is one of James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behaviour of the ch ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father a ...Show more
Women in Love by D H Lawrence
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Category: Reduced Price Items | 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