Books from Wordsworth Editions

  • The Egoist
    The Egoist
    By George Meredith

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

  • Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe
    By Daniel Defoe

    The adventures of Robinson Crusoe who was marooned on a desert island for twenty years.

  • The Bronte Sisters
    The Bronte Sisters
    By Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë

    to clean down Moor House from chamber to cellar ; my next to rub it up with bees - wax , oil , and an indefinite number of cloths , till it glitters again ; my third , to arrange every chair , table , bed , carpet , with mathematical ...

  • The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology
    The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology
    By Walter W. Skeat

    ( E. ) See Bleb . P. L. x . 656.-F. blanc . - O . H. G. blanch , Block , a large piece of wood . ( C. ) M.E. white . From blinchen * , to shine ( mod . G. blok . - W. ploc , å block ; Gael . and Irish blinken ) ; allied to 0.

  • The Beetle: A Mystery
    The Beetle: A Mystery
    By Richard Marsh

    To Bellingham I remarked aloud : ' I want you to strain a point , Mr Bellingham , and to do me a service which I assure you you shall never have any cause to regret . I want you to wire instructions down the line to detain this Arab and ...

  • Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems
    Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems
    By William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    This volume contains all of "Lyrical Ballads" with Wordsworth's preface of 1800/1802, and a wide range of both poets' other work across their poetic careers.

  • Richard II
    Richard II
    By William Shakespeare

    Richard II is the seventeenth volume in the Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, in which each volume has been freshly edited by Cedric Watts.

  • The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder
    The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder
    By William Hope Hodgson

    I tugged hard on the cord and blew the whistle ; then I raised my snapshot and fired the flashlight . The corridor blazed into brilliant light , but there was nothing , and then the darkness fell like thunder .

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    By James Joyce

    This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Walter Gabler's acclaimed text and is accompanied by his introduction and textual notes.

  • The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study
    The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study

    ... overdone , rank , saccharine , enthusiasm , excitement , flap , frenzy , fury , fuss , sickening , smarmy , sycophantic , unctuous . hullabaloo , mania , outburst , outcry , rage , stir , tofume v . boil , chafe , fizz , get steamed ...

  • Piers Plowman
    Piers Plowman
    By William Langland

    16 Langland's version of John 13:21 and of Matthew 26 : 21-5 ( whence also line 145 ) . 17 Langland's expansion of Matthew 26 : 48-50 . 18 Does not belong in this context at all : it is Matthew 18 : 7 . 19 John 18 : 8-9 .

  • Four Late Plays
    Four Late Plays
    By William Shakespeare

    ... BEN JONSON Volpone and Other Plays KENKO Essays in Idleness WILLIAM LANGLAND Piers Plowman LAO TZU Tao Te Ching T. E. LAWRENCE Seven Pillars of Wisdom JOHN LOCKE Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( ABRIDGED ) NICCOLÒ WORDSWORTH ...

  • The Temple of Death
    The Temple of Death
    By Robert Hugh Benson, A. C. Benson

    Undeservedly, the weird and chilling ghost stories of Arthur Christopher Benson and Robert Hugh Benson have been neglected for far too long.

  • Martin Chuzzlewit
    Martin Chuzzlewit
    By Charles Dickens

    Blush if you can ; begone without A blush , if you can't . ' Martin looked as steadily at his grandfather as if there had been a dead silence all this time . The old man looked no less steadily at Mr Pecksniff .

  • The Battle of Loos
    The Battle of Loos
    By Philip Warner

    16 Guards and Cavalry Letter from Mrs M. Spiller My brother who was aged 19 volunteered for the Army in August 1914 ... Captain Osmond Williams is leading them and they received their baptism of fire at Hill 70 and Captain Williams was ...

  • The Selected Poems of William Blake
    The Selected Poems of William Blake
    By William Blake

    William Blake is one of England's most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies. This volume contains his greatest writings and a generous selection from the Prophetic Books including Milton and Jerusalem.

  • The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley
    The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley
    By Percy Bysshe Shelley

    This edition contains all Shelley's poetry, from his juvenilia to his great works such as "The Revolt of Islam" and "Ode to the West Wind", and his only completed verse drama "The Cenci", a melodramatic Venetian tale of incest, murder and ...

  • The Works of Robert Browning
    The Works of Robert Browning
    By Robert Browning

    Robert Browning represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry, in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and Tennyson.

  • The Works of Christina Rossetti
    The Works of Christina Rossetti
    By Christina Georgina Rossetti

    This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of 19th century poet Christina Rossetti. Rossetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring the themes of loss and unattainable hope across subjects ranging from love to the divine.

  • El Alamein
    El Alamein
    By Michael Carver

    Down in the south Harding's 7th Armoured Division , the only formation of 13th Corps to be actively engaged , had been experiencing much the same difficulties as beset both 30th and 10th Corps . However they had the advantage that the ...