Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the ...Show more
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy; Keith Carabine (Contribution by)
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The Forsyte Saga chronicles the ebbing social power of the upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during the 1880s and ending in the early 1920s. The saga begins with Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor who buys land at Robin Hill on which to build ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Maurice Greiffenhagen (Illustrator); F. Walker (Illustrator); Dinny Thorold (Intro and Notes by)
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence, his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of huma ...Show more
King Henry V by William Shakespeare
14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics - Shakespeare S.
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his 'band of brothers' to victory in the Battle of Aginc ...Show more
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befrie ...Show more
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspi ...Show more
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Marcus Stone (Illustrator); Deborah Wynne (Intro and Notes by)
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collection | Reading Level: very good
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap's expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands su ...Show more
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens; R. W. Buss (Illustrator); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); David Ellis (Intro and Notes by); R. Seymour (Illustrator); Hablot K. Browne (Illustrator)
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collection
Dickens takes up on an exploration of the perils, travels, and adventures of the Pickwick Club's members: the founding chairman, former businessman and amateur scientist Mr. Pickwick; his trusted companion Sam Weller; the sportsman Winkle; the poet Snodgrass; and the lover Tracy Tupman. Includes unique ...Show more
Selected Poems of William Blake by William Blake
17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as ...Show more
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accide ...Show more
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the ...Show more