Beowulf - A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell by J R R Tolkien
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the ...Show more
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
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Category: Classics
In this sardonic portrait of the up-and-coming middle class during the prosperous 1920s, Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) perfectly captures the sound, the feel, and the attitudes of the generation that created the cult of consumerism. With a sharp eye for detail and keen powers of observation, Lewis tracks s ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Since its publication fifty years ago, "Animal Farm" has become one of the most controversial books ever written. It has been translated into seventy languages and sold millions of copies throughout the world. This edition is being published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its original U.S. p ...Show more
Complete Novels of James Joyce - Wordsworth Editions by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Includes - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Ulysses, Dubliners, and Finnagans WakeThis collection comprises of Joyce's three novels, plus the short story collection Dubliners. Dubliners, about Joyce's native city, is faithful to his country, seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every preceden ...Show more
Selected Works of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Special Editions
Contains: A Room of One's Own * To the Lighthouse * Between the Acts * Three Guineas * Mrs Dalloway * Jacob's Room * The Waves * The Years * Orlando Mrs Dalloway, the society hostess Clarissa, is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives ...Show more
Count of Monte Cristo by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In hi ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
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 Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Peter Merchant (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Too often overshadowed by her sister's more famous novels of passionate romance, Anne Bronte's novel is shockingly contemporary in its concerns, daring in its conception and uncompromising in its realistic portrayal of an abusive husband and a woman's will to survive.When the mysterious and beautiful yo ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mys ...Show more
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
It was Boccaccio’s Decameron which inspired Chaucer, in the 1390s, to begin work on The Canterbury Tales, which was still unfinished at his death in October 1400. It tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames opposite the city of Lo ...Show more
Chekhov Plays by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated, with an introductory essay, by Elisaveta Fen, and with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. Anton Chekhov's popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, call ...Show more
Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R ...Show more