Books from Wordsworth Editions

  • The Return of the Native
    The Return of the Native
    By Thomas Hardy

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  • Under the Greenwood Tree, Or, the Mellstock Quire
    Under the Greenwood Tree, Or, the Mellstock Quire
    By Thomas Hardy

    A portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and irony, it is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel.

  • Remembrance of Things Past
    Remembrance of Things Past
    By Marcel Proust

    Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation.

  • The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography
    The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography
    By John Keats

    This collection comprises the works of John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and contemporary of Byron and Shelley. The collection includes "Endymion", "Lamia", "Isabella" and "Hyperion".

  • The Mill on the Floss
    The Mill on the Floss
    By George Eliot

    Evokes nineteenth-century rural England through the story of Maggie Tulliver, who attempts to adapt to her life until her brother forbids her to see the one person who understands her after she is found in a compromising situation.

  • Selected Novels of George Eliot
    Selected Novels of George Eliot
    By George Eliot

    Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book tells a story of seduction, and is also a pioneering record of a long lost rural world.Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, ...

  • Silas Marner
    Silas Marner
    By George Eliot

    Tells the story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie.

  • Selected Works of D.H. Lawrence
    Selected Works of D.H. Lawrence
    By D. H. Lawrence

    A selection of Lawrence's work, which underlines the innovation that made him one of the most distinctive of 20th-century writers.

  • The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll
    The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll
    By Lewis Carroll

    Famed for his Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Caroll produced comic verse, puzzles and much more, all of which are included in this complete illustrated collection.

  • The Wind in the Willows
    The Wind in the Willows
    By Kenneth Grahame

    The Wind in the Willows is a book for those 'who keep the spirit of youth alive in them; of life, sunshine, running water, woodlands, dusty roads, winter firesides.'

  • The Works of Walt Whitman
    The Works of Walt Whitman
    By Walt Whitman

    Offers poetry selections from the nineteenth-century American master.

  • Chapman's Homer: The IIiad and the Odyssey
    Chapman's Homer: The IIiad and the Odyssey
    By Homer

    Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation.

  • The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography
    The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography
    By John Milton

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  • Tristram Shandy
    Tristram Shandy
    By Laurence Sterne

    Introduces us to a group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. This book involves the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. It anticipates modernism and postmodernism.

  • The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
    By Victor Hugo

    Retells in simple language the tale of the hunchbacked bellringer of medieval Notre Dame, Quasimodo, whose love for the gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, had tragic consequences.

  • Decameron
    Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day.

  • The Wordsworth Book of Urban Legend
    The Wordsworth Book of Urban Legend
    By Rodney Dale

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  • The Wordsworth Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms
    The Wordsworth Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms
    By Rodney Dale, Steve Puttick

    ... Aid to Russian Christians ( founded by Jane Ellis ( 1951-98 ) ARCA Associate of the Royal Cambrian Academy ARCA Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy ARCE Academical Rank of Civil Engineers Arch archaic ; archaism Arch archipelago ...

  • The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
    The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
    By David Herbert Lawrence

    Lawrence first put together the collection of his poems in 1928. They are arranged chronologically "to make up a biography of an emotional and inner life".

  • Dictionary of First Names
    Dictionary of First Names
    By Iseabail MacLeod, Terry Freedman

    Variant form : Kaye . Kaz familiar form of Karen . Keir ( m ) From the Scottish surname , itself 122 The Wordsworth Dictionary of First Names.