Books from Wordsworth Editions
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The Complete Fairy Tales
By Hans Christian AndersenHow could it have entered your head , good Larsen , to send such a flower up to the house ? It will make us look ridiculous ! ' And the lovely blue flower which was brought from the kitchen - garden was put out of the drawing - room ...
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Dictionary of Homonyms
By David Rothwellyou'll , yule yack , yak If you should happen to yack with your neighbour , you will be having a chat of a relaxed and often gossipy kind . Indeed , you might be commenting on the yak , the long - haired Tibetan ox , that the Browns ...
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The Complete Works of J.M. Synge: Plays, Prose and Poetry
By John Millington SyngeIt follows naturally enough that the carmen pick up the views of their patrons , and when they have done so they soon find apt instances from their own local knowledge that give a native - popular air to opinions that are essentially ...
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Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions
By Frank HarrisOscar Wilde's Kindness of Heart Here is a note which Oscar Wilde wrote to Warder Martin towards the end of his imprisonment in Reading Gaol . Warder Martin , it will be remembered , was dismissed from his post for having given some ...
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Persuasion
By Jane AustenHe would gain cheerfulness , and she would learn to be an enthusiast for Scott and Lord Byron ; nay , that was probably learned already ; of course they had fallen in love over poetry . The idea of Louisa Musgrove turned into a person ...
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Culpeper's Complete Herbal: A Book of Natural Remedies for Ancient Ills
By Nicholas CulpeperAldershot Andover Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Bath Birkenhead Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bridgewater Bristol Bromley Buxton Camberley Chelmsford Cheltenham Chester Cleveland Crawley Croydon Derby Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Hartlepool ...
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The Complete Stories of Oz
By L. Frank BaumWhen Uncle Henry and Aunt Em's grey, grim Kansas farmhouse was picked up by the great summer cyclone, a wondrous adventure had begun.
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The Wizard of Oz
By Lyman Frank BaumA huge cyclone transports Dorothy and her little dog Toto to the Land of Oz, where she makes both an enemy and many friends as she travels to the Emerald City to see if the Wizard of Oz will help her to get back home again.
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The Little Prince
By Antoine de Saint-ExupéryWordsworth Classics The Little Prince ANTOINE DE SAINT - EXUPÉRY - The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults . On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery in the desert of a small boy from ...
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The Complete Fairy Tales
By Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm GrimmPresents over two hundred tales by the Brothers Grimm, including well-known ones like "Sleeping Beauty," and darker tales such as "Death's Messengers"
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The House by the Churchyard
By Sheridan Le FanuSet in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s, the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral.
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The Call of the Wild and White Fang
By Jack LondonThe trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost , and they seemed to lean towards each other , black and ominous , in the fading light . A vast silence reigned over the land .
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Andersen's Fairy Tales
By Hans Christian AndersenHans Christian Andersen. and flew off through the window , over the housetops and over the streets ; at last he was obliged to take a little rest . There was something familiar about the opposite house ; there was an open window and he ...
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
By Edgar Allan PoeThis collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work, from Gothic horror to the first modern detective stories.
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Collected Ghost Stories
By Montague Rhodes JamesThis edition presents all of James's published ghost stories, including the unforgettable 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Casting the Runes', and an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
By Arthur Conan DoyleIn this collection of tales, Doyle had lost none of his cunning or panache, and the magic remains unchanged and undimmed.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
By Arthur Conan DoyleA collection of Sherlock Holmes mystery adventures.
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Tales of Unease
By Arthur Conan DoyleThis gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein.
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The Plays
By Christopher MarloweThe plays collected in this text provide the reader with a clear picture of Marlowe as a radical theatrical poet of great linguistic and dramatic daring, whose characters constantly strive to break out of the social, religious, and ...
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Irish Fairy Tales
By Joseph JacobsHere gathered in this collection are tales of giants and warriors, of old hags and fair maidens, and of the boyhood of the great hero Fionn Mac Uail (Finn MacCool).