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Candide and Other Works by Voltaire
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and is one of the thinkers who prepared the ...Show more
Captain Scott : The Voyage Of The Discovery by R.F.Scott
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
When I received the script of The Voyage of the Discovery I was amazed. I had only to read a few pages to realise that it was literature, unique of its kind ...Scott's mind was like wax to receive an impression and like marble to retain it'. So wrote Leonard Huxley, and he was not alone in his opinion. ...Show more
Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation and the terri ...Show more
Castle by Franz Kafka
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Kafka's final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions between K., the Castle and the village, K.'s struggle for acceptance or recognition by the ...Show more
Chapman's Homer :The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.
Chekhov Plays by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated, with an introductory essay, by Elisaveta Fen, and with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. Anton Chekhov's popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, call ...Show more
Chekhov: Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov (intro & notes Joe Andrews)
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination. This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comi ...Show more
Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
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Category: Wordsworth | 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
Christmas Carol by DICKENS CHARLES
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, usually known just as A Christmas Carol is a fairy-tale novel by a British classic Charles Dickens, that was published in 1843. It consists of five chapters, or staves as the author named them. Among all the stories about Christmas, A Christm ...Show more
Complete Father Brown Stories by G. K. CHESTERTON
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in ...Show more
Complete Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens’ lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabr ...Show more
Complete Nonsense (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Edward Lear
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Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense S ...Show more