Books from Wordsworth Editions

  • The Enchanted Castle
    The Enchanted Castle
    By Edith Nesbit

    Four English children find a wonderful world of magic through an enchanted wishing ring.

  • The Witch of Prague and Other Stories
    The Witch of Prague and Other Stories
    By F. Marion Crawford

    For a potent blend of horror, fantasy and fear Crawford's tales have rarely been surpassed. Most of these stories have long been out of print, so this collection is a special treat for all lovers of supernatural mysteries.

  • The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
    The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
    By Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

    Widowed at 30, Gertrude Atherton became hugely productive writer, including a fine selection of supernatural tales influenced by Ambrose Bierce and M.R. James.

  • The Thirty-nine Steps
    The Thirty-nine Steps
    By John Buchan

    The resourceful victim of a manhunt, he is pursued by both the police and the ruthless conspirators. John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War.

  • The Castle of Otranto: Vathek and Nightmare Abbey
    The Castle of Otranto: Vathek and Nightmare Abbey
    By Horace Walpole, Thomas Love Peacock, William Beckford

    Three classic Gothic novels: Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey and William Beckford's Vathek

  • Shirley
    Shirley
    By Charlotte Brontë

    Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines.

  • The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories
    The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories
    By Marjorie Bowen

    Bowen's stories show a mastery of detail, a sureness of expression and an acute reading of human nature that give them a sinister force which is realistic and unnerving, yet at the same time tinged with pity and compassion.

  • The Works of Emily Dickinson
    The Works of Emily Dickinson
    By Emily Dickinson

    During Emily's life only seven of her 1775 poems were published. This collection of her work shows her breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for life, love, nature, time and eternity.

  • The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
    The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
    By Alfred Tennyson

    The Wordsworth Poetry Library comprises the works of the greatest English-speaking poets, as well as many lesser-known poets. Each collection has a specially commissioned introduction.

  • The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
    The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
    By William Butler Yeats

    Poetry.

  • Pollyanna: &, Pollyanna Grows Up
    Pollyanna: &, Pollyanna Grows Up
    By Eleanor H. Porter

    Pollyanna's story of how cheerfulness can conquer adversity has made this one of the most popular children's books every written. This edition includes the sequal, Pollyanna Grows Up.

  • Crossword Companion
    Crossword Companion
    By Stephen Curtis, Martin Manser

    ... Irvine , Isaiah , Isodor , Israel , Jackie , Jarvis , Jasper , Jeremy , Jerome , Jervis , Jethro , Johann , Johnny , Joseph , Joshua , Josiah , Julian , Julius , Justin , Justus , boy Kieran , Konrad , Laurie , Lawrie , Lemuel.

  • The Concise Gray's Anatomy
    The Concise Gray's Anatomy
    By Charles Henri Leonard, H. Gray

    The capsule of Glisson is a layer of areolar tissue enveloping them , and continuing on into the portal canals , and liver substance with them . The hepatic veins return the blood from the liver substance , collecting , in the deep ...

  • The Last Man
    The Last Man
    By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    Now that the race of man had lost in fact all distinction of rank, this pride was doubly fatuitous; now that we felt a kindred, fraternal nature with all who bore the stamp of humanity, this angry reminiscence of times for ever gone, ...

  • Slim: The Standardbearer : a Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim
    Slim: The Standardbearer : a Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim
    By Ronald Lewin

    The letter read something like this : ' Looking through the Field - Marshal's file recently , I came across an item in the magazine Men Only , which stated that he was one of the most highly paid short story writers in the country ...

  • What Katy Did at School & What Katy Did Next
    What Katy Did at School & What Katy Did Next
    By Susan Coolidge

    'What Katy did at school' is a compelling tale of the intrigues of life at the New England girls' boarding school which Katy attends. Her trials, adventures and scrapes are all interwoven with a sense of fun and gently ironic good humour.

  • The Interpretation of Dreams
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    By Sigmund Freud

    A translation of Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" that is based on the original text published in November 1899.

  • To the Devil a Daughter
    To the Devil a Daughter
    By Dennis Wheatley

    Yet he was barely halfway to the top when he fell to his knees , weighed down by Christina's limp body , and mentally crushed by the knowledge that he was at the end of his tether . In vain he tried to rise . He could not .

  • Living the Tarot: Applying Ancient Wisdom to the Challenges of Modern Living
    Living the Tarot: Applying Ancient Wisdom to the Challenges of Modern Living
    By Amber Jayanti

    ... sparks of golden light in the form of the Hebrew letter Yod . Again , Yod symbolises the hand of God / dess reaching down to humanity , and our hands reaching up to this Source for help . Since all comes from God / dess , why is it ...

  • The Well-Beloved with the Pursuit of the Well-Beloved
    The Well-Beloved with the Pursuit of the Well-Beloved
    By Thomas Hardy

    The novelist and critic Margaret Oliphant , with whom Hardy was personally acquainted , saw Jude as a wholesale attack on the institution of marriage , and Bishop William Walsham How of Wakefield sent Hardy a packet of ashes , having ...