Books from Wordsworth Editions

Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
This work tells the tragedy of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition. 'Macbeth' is a tragedy, one of eleven that Shakespeare wrote.
The Great War
By John Terraine
This provided Field - Marshal French with a long - sought opportunity to get rid of Smith - Dorrien , whom he disliked ... without protection , individuality was annihilated ; the soldier in the trench became a " Cyril Falls , The First ...
The Turn of the Screw & the Aspern Papers
By Henry James
Two founder - members of the Society for Psychical Research , Frederic William Henry Myers and Henry Sidgwick , were fellows of this college . 2 ( p . 5 ) Raison de plus ! an additional reason 3 ( p . 6 ) Harley Street a street in ...
Confessions of an English Opium-eater
By Thomas De Quincey
... Serpent The Rainbow Sons and Lovers Women in Love SHERIDAN LE FANU In a Glass Darkly Madam Crowl's Ghost do Other Stories GASTON LEROUX The Phantom of the Opera Dracula HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Uncle Tom's Cabin The Aeneid VOLTAIRE.
The Works of 'Banjo' Paterson
By Andrew Barton Paterson
Did you hear no sweeter voices in the music of the bush Than the roar of trams and buses , and the war - whoop of ' the push ? Did the magpies rouse your slumbers with their carol sweet and strange ? Did you hear the silver chiming of ...
The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories
By David Herbert Lawrence
These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one exception written and published in the latter half of the 1920s.
Nicholas Nickleby
By Charles Dickens
Who sleeps in Brooks's's bed , my dear ? ' ' In Brooks's , ' said Mrs Squeers , pondering . " There's Jennings , little Bolder , Graymarsh , and what's his name .
Advanced Learner's Dictionary
By Martin H. Manser, Nigel D. Turton
< Middle English slabbe . slack ' ( slæk ) adj 1 not tight or taut ; loose . 2 careless ; negligent . 3 sluggish or slow ; listless : a pretty slack pace . 4 not busy or active : Business has been a bit slack recently .
Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot
By David Stuart Davies
Once more, the game's afoot as Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street returns in twenty new adventures specially commissioned for Wordsworth's Mystery & Supernatural series.
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz: And Other Stories
By Francis Scott Fitzgerald
23-38 * Alan Casty , ' I and It in the Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald , Studies in Short Fiction , 9 , Winter 1972 , pp . 47–58 * Seymour L. Gross , ' Fitzgerald's “ Babylon Revisited ” ' , College English , 25 , November 1963 , pp .
Ben Hur
By Lew Wallace
A spiritual tale of the quest for love and the recovery of identity and patrimony, the novel also displays a vivid realism based on Wallace's biblical research and knowledge of the Holy Land.
Moby Dick
By Herman Melville
' A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, let by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick in this children's version of Melville's Moby Dick.
The Best of Sherlock Holmes
By Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The best twenty tales of Conan Doyle.
Anna Karenina
By graf Leo Tolstoy
It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian ...
The Works of Lord Byron: With an Introduction and Bibliography
By George Gordon Byron
This volume comprises the complete poetic works of Byron. As well as including such works as "Childe Harold", "Don Juan", "The Two Foscari", "The Lament of Tasso" and "The Vision of Judgement", it also contains his shorter lyrical poems.
The Little Prince
By Saint-Exupery, DE.)
On one level this work is the story of an airman's discovery of a small boy from another planet in the desert and his stories of intergalactic travel, and on the other hand it is a thought-provoking allegory of the human condition.
Alice in Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll
COMPLETE EDITION SUTABLE FOR AR REQUIREMENTS. When Alice follows a White Rabbit, she tumbles down a hole and lands in a mixed-up Wonderland, filled with strange creatures and even stranger characters.
The Pickwick Papers
By Charles Dickens
Relates the various activites and adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club.
Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.--Provided by the publisher.
Gulliver's Travels
By Jonathan Swift
An Englishman is shipwrecked in a land where the people are only six inches tall.