Books from Wordsworth Editions

The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
By Oscar Wilde
Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life.
Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde
By Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure.
Dracula
By Bram Stoker
Authentic music is combined with a new ballet score and various sound effects to create a gripping dramatization of this classic tale -- an undisputed masterpiece of horror writing.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
By Arthur Conan Doyle
An autobiography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that reveals his achievements from and apart from the field of literature.
The Essential Kafka
By Franz Kafka
A culturally-influential and celebrated author, Kafka is generally considered to be one of the most accomplished writers of the 20th century.
Robin Hood
By Henry Gilbert
near Hagthorn Waste and said that in the twilight he had seen , across the marsh , a dead man being borne by things that had no bodies but only legs - demons of the fen , no doubt , who were taking home the body of their evil master .
Collected Ghost Stories
By Montague Rhodes James
... for instance , which the boys at private schools tell each other , they would all turn out to be highlycompressed versions of stories out of books . ' Nowadays the Strand and Pearson's , and so on , would be extensively drawn upon .
Much Ado about Nothing
By William Shakespeare
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND TEXTUAL MATTERS 27 eighteenth - century editor , Nicholas Rowe , accordingly assumed that only one ... Thirdly : in Act I , Scene 2 , Leonato's brother has a son , but , in Act s , scene 1 , Hero is the sole heir of ...
The Moonstone
By Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder.
The Complete Mapp and Lucia
By E. F. Benson
Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, 'as by right divine' rules over the toy kingdom of 'Riseholme' based on the Cotswold village of Broadway.
Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus
By Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature.
The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy
By Thomas Hardy
This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of Thomas Hardy.
The Trumpet-major
By Thomas Hardy
The novel is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. It interweaves a romantic love story of the rivalry of two brothers for the hand of the heroine Anne Garland. It also contains elements of sadness and even tragedy.
The Woodlanders
By Thomas Hardy
Her alternative choice proves disastrous. In The Woodlanders, his favorite among his own novels, Thomas Hardy created a chain of characters linked by misunderstanding, infidelity and requited love.
Far from the Madding Crowd
By Thomas Hardy
Tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene, who must choose among three suitors in Wessex in the 1840s.
Wessex Tales
By Thomas Hardy
Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers.
Moll Flanders
By Daniel Defoe
Abandoned at birth and threatened with a life in service, Defoe's young rebel sets her heart on independence. One fatal seduction and five husbands later, she resorts to a life of self-supporting crime.
Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog!
By Jerome K. Jerome
Three men in a boat: Three friends along with the dog, Montmorency, experience the hazards and vicissitudues of life in a boating expedition along the Thames.
The Railway Children
By Edith Nesbit
When their father is sent away to prison, three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves.
The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror
By Edith Nesbit
In this collection, we encounter love that transcends the grave, reanimated corpses, vampiric vines, vengeful ghosts and other dark stories to make you feel fearful.