The Witch of Prague & Other Stories by F. Marion Crawford
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
As I fell the thing sprang across me and seemed to throw itself upon the captain. When I last saw him on his feet his face was white and his lips set. It seemed to me that he struck a violent blow at the dead being, and then he, too, fell forward upon his face, with an inarticulate cry of horror'. This ...Show more
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Category: Classics
This collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa's film "Rashomon", made famous Ryunosuke Akutagawa's disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.
Twelve Years a Slave: Including; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Solomon Northup
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
‘I was sitting upon a low bench, made of rough boards, and without coat or hat. I was handcuffed. Around my ankles also were a pair of heavy fetters. One end of a chain was fastened to a large ring in the floor, the other to fetters on my ankles . . . Then did the idea begin to break upon my mind, at fi ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics
After escaping from Count Dracula, Jonathan Harker and his friends plan to destroy the count. They succeed just in time to save the life and soul of Jonathan's wife, Mina.
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | 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
Candide and Other Works by Voltaire
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and is one of the thinkers who prepared the ...Show more
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocr ...Show more
Lady Audley's Secret by MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels ...Show more
Lady Vanishes & the Spiral Staircase by Ethel Lina White
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This novel, when originally published in 1936, was entitled The Wheel Spins. However, since the Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation in 1938, the novel has become better known by its 'Hollywood name' The Lady Vanishes. The novel tells of a beautiful English tourist travelling by train in Europe who discover ...Show more
Mathilda and Other Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Mathilda is Mary Shelley's haunting story of an incestuous and fatal love. The narrative traces the teenaged Mathilda's reunion with her unnamed father, and the development of their obsessive bond that culminates in suicide. Shelley's own father, William Godwin, was so disturbed after reading the manusc ...Show more
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of ‘Poetry Review’. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabo ...Show more
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of ...Show more