Books from Wordsworth Editions
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Little Women
By Louisa May AlcottChronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England.
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A Study in Scarlet: And, the Sign of Four
By Arthur Conan DoyleBringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H Watson, the great detective's faithful chronicler, this novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic ...
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A Study in Scarlet & the Sign of the Four (Collector's Edition)
By Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThis novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the burning plains of Utah.
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Les Misérables Volume Two
By Victor HugoThe nineteenth-century Frenchman's epic work depicts the life of Jean Valjean, a reformed convict who has dedicated his life to helping others.
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Collected Short Stories of Saki
By SakiI gave a sympathetic shudder at the idea ; eggs here cost 6 sous apiece . ... always choosing those that laid the squarest egg , at last , with patience and enterprise , one would produce a breed of fowls that laid only square eggs .
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Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil
By Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheHuman, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment.
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Anne of Green Gables
By Lucy Maud MontgomeryAnne, an eleven year old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
By Jules VerneProfessor Aronnax sets out in search of a dangerous sea monster, only to learn that the monster is really Captain Nemo's powerful submarine
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A Room of One's Own and the Voyage Out
By Virginia WoolfA Room of One's Own has become a classic feminist essay; The Voyage Out is highly significant as her first novel.
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Three Theban Plays
By SophoclesThe story of Oedipus has captured the human imagination as few others. It is the story of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother, a man who by a cruel irony brings these things to pass by his very efforts to avoid them.
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Kipps and the History of MR Polly
By H. G. WellsThese comic novels will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by circumstance.
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Vintage Mystery and Detective Stories
By David Stuart DaviesThis was the first golden age of the detective story and a number of its participants have found their way into the pages of this collection - but more of them later . Under the skilled pens of practitioners of detective and mystery ...
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Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary
By Sir Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell884 SWEET POTATO . ... In Valentijn's first map of Bengal , India , at ... P.-Ar. , literally sugar - candy , thongle no name is applied there is a space dency , natives commonly call it shakaro koo . å name equally suggesting that it ...
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
By Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm GrimmFairy Tales.
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The Mythology of the British Islands
By Charles SquireThe Myth, Legend, and Folklore series is the product of the unique partnership between Wordsworth Editions and The Folklore Society. Folklore Society scholars provide in-depth introductions, making this the most...
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The Pilgrim's Progress
By John BunyanThis edition also includes accompanying seventeenth-century illustrations, a chronology, suggested further reading, notes and an index."--BOOK JACKET.
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Dubliners
By James JoyceThis Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Walter Gabler's scholarly edition and includes Gabler's edited text, his textual notes, and a newly revised version of his introduction, which details and discusses the complicated publication ...
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Little Men and Jo's Boys
By Louisa May AlcottLittle Men takes up the story of the everyday dramas and exploits of the naughty but easy-going boys at Plumfield, a boarding-school run by Professor Bhaer and his lovable madcap wife Jo, the most fiery and free-spirited of the four March ...
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Twelfth Night
By William ShakespeareSir Toby Belch and his companion outwit the pretentious Malvolio, who despite suffering their most outrageous and insulting practical jokes, emerges as an almost noble figure.
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The Great Comedies and Tragedies
By William ShakespeareThe collection of the finest of Shakespeare's plays presents Shakespeare's comedies with introductions by Judith Buchanan and tragedies with introductions by Emma Smith