Books from Wordsworth Editions
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To the Lighthouse
By Virginia Woolf"To the Lighthouse features the serene and maternal Mrs.
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Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
By Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf JACOB'S ROOM MRS DALLOWAY TO THE LIGHTHOUSE • ORLANDO • A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN • THE WAVES • THREE GUINEAS • BETWEEN THE ACTS The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of ...
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Ghost Stories
By Henry JamesHenry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. This edition includes all ten of his tales in this genre.
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The Best Short Stories
By Guy de MaupassantGuy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce.
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Wives and Daughters
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Gaskell ElisabethIn the WORDSWORTH CLASSICS series, this novel tells the story of Molly Gibson as she moves from childhood to womanhood in a complex series of interwoven plots.
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Billy Budd & Other Stories
By Herman MelvilleHerman Melville. Sure , a messmate will reach me the last parting cup ; But turning heads away from the hoist and the belay , Heaven knows who will have the running of me up ! No pipe to those halyards - but aren't it all sham ?
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The Complete Novels of James Joyce
By James JoyceIncludes James Joyce's three novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. It also includes the short story collection, Dubliners.
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The Government Inspector and Other Works
By Nikolai GogolThe Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General, is a satirical play by the Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol.
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Selected Stories
By Anton Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich ChekhovA collection of twenty-four short stories and comic sketches by Anton Chekhov
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Chekhov Plays
By Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov's popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer.
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The Idiot
By Fyodor DostoyevskyReturning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin - known as 'the idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife and his three daughters.
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Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Keith CarabineThis classic, begun as a novel concerned with the psychology of a crime and the process of guilt, surpasses itself to take on the tragic force of myth.
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The Karamazov Brothers
By Fyodor DostoyevskyAs Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death.
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Notes from the Underground and Other Stories
By Fyodor DostoevskyA collection of Dostoevsky's short stories, including Notes From The Underground which is considered to be one of the first works of existential literature.
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Fathers and Sons
By Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevSet in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, this novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free ...
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Lord Jim
By Joseph ConradLord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--'as unflinching as a hero in a book'--who is disgraced by an act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from 'an Eastern port' with a party ...
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
By Joseph ConradA story of espionage and counter-espionage, and anarchists and embassies. At first, Joseph Conrad did not dare to call this book a novel.
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with the Merry Men and Other Stories
By Robert Louis StevensonThis volume also includes a collection of Stevenson's short stories The doppelganger, the ghostly double infecting the soul, was popular fictional subject for late nineteenth-century writers, and it found its most brilliant realization in ...
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Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
By Oscar WildeHere is a collection of this witty and irreverent author's works--all in their most authoritative texts. Includes The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and other stories and essays.
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The Plays of Oscar Wilde
By Oscar WildeThis work features Wilde's plays ranging from his early tragedy era to the controversial Salome and little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy.