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The Children of the New Forest (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Captain Marryat
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Category: 10+ Years Junior Readers | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
In The Children of the New Forest, Cavalier and Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war and provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans as they face adversity, survival in the forest, reconciliation and eventual forgiveness. This is the first enduring h ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination, caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a h ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'. The fast-moving and inge ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into wo ...Show more
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne; Alex Dolby (Introduction by); W.H.G. Kingston (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
rare edition printed About The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Unde ...Show more
The Phoenix and the Carpet (Psammead #2) by E Nesbit
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
The Phoenix and the Carpet is E. Nesbit's second fantasy novel and is the sequel to Five Children and It. From Robert, Anthea, Jane and Cyril's new nursery carpet there falls a mysterious egg which is hatched in the fire to reveal a benevolent, resourceful and ingenious Phoenix who explains that the car ...Show more
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy's most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moon where ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lo ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the mater ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
A historical romance, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of ...Show more
The Ultimate Children's Classic Collection by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Includes: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 9781853261183 The Wind in the Willows 9781853261220 The Little Prince 9781853261589 Treasure Island 9781853261039 Black Beauty 9781853261091 The Jungle Book 9781853261190 The Secret Garden 9781853261046 Peter Pan 9781853261206