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
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of ‘Poetry Review’. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabo ...Show more
Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Michael Irwin (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the l ...Show more
100 Selected Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging f ...Show more
Adam Bede by Adam Bede; George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
With an Introduction by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury 'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...' Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot' ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocenceis not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, t ...Show more
The Complete Mapp and Lucia: #1: Queen Lucia, Miss Map, Lucia in London by E. F. Benson
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Lucia is one of the great comic characters in English literature. Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, 'as by right divine' rules over the toy kingdom of 'Riseholme' based on the Cotswold ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Category: 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
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked. The cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!' is used to exculpate brut ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
In the early years of the 18th century, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. Hogg's sinner, justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained, is suspected of involvement in a series of bizarre and hideous crimes. A century later his memoirs reveal the extraordi ...Show more
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of 'the great Father of Waters'. Part memoir, part travelogue, it expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality, and remains the most viv ...Show more
Lord Jim by JOSEPH CONRAD
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford. First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an e ...Show more