Books from Wordsworth Editions
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The Lost World and Other Stories
By Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of adventure and discovery still excites the reader today just as dinosaurs continue to grip the popular imagination.
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Othello
By William ShakespeareThe destructive effects of jealousy underlie this tale. Othello, a man of quality and superior intelligence, is brought down by his suspicions of his wife, Desdemona.
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
By Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm GrimmAn illustrated collection of 52 traditional tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
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The House of the Dead and the Gambler
By Fyodor DostoevskyAlexey Ivanovitch is a young tutor in the household of a general.
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The Poems of Wilfred Owen
By Wilfred OwenThis volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime.
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Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories
By Rex CollingsThis is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked.
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Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
By Oscar WildeOscar Wilde. I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all . It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends . I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy . To have friends , you know , one need only be ...
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
By Jane AustenJane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists.
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The Professor
By Charlotte BrontëThe Professor is Charlotte Brontë's first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Bronte completed.
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Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
By Friedrich NietzscheIncludes three works, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, that aim show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the Ubermensch) are forsaken ...
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The Great Gatsby
By Francis Scott FitzgeraldA young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married
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Symposium and the Death of Socrates
By PlatoThe other dialogues collected here under the title "The Death of Socrates" tell the tale of how Socrates was put on trial for impiety, found guilty and sentenced to death.
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Tales of Unease
By Arthur Conan DoyleSit down in your uneasy chair and enjoy this unique collection of chillers.
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Utopia
By Thomas MoreThis volume is the first to offer the original English translation of the work in an edition that allows students to explore in depth Utopia's historical and intellectual contexts as well as the circumstances of its reception.
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Resurrection
By Leo TolstoyThis powerful novel, Tolstoy's third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event.
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Don Quixote
By Miguel De Cervantes SaavedraHe used to walk with a hollow cane , pointed at one end ; and whenever he met with a dog in the street , or in any other place , he clapped his foot on one of the creature's hind legs , pulled up the other with his hand , and applying ...
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories
By Arthur Conan DoyleThe stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat.
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The Diary of a Nobody
By Weedon Grossmith, George GrossmithThe diary is that of someone who acknowledges that he is not a "somebody" - Charles Pooter, a clerk in the city of London, chronicles with often hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle classes during the great Victorian Age.
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The Winter's Tale
By William ShakespeareThe Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi-comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its poetry.
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Tao Te Ching
By LaoziTao Te Ching, also commonly known as Lao Tzu, is one of the most important Chinese classics and has had great influence on Chinese thought.