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Complete Nonsense (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Edward Lear
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Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense S ...Show more
Faust by JOHANN GOETHE
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Category: International Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual, his ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Washington Irving
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Category: International Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Rip van Winkle is an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect; a familiar figure about the village, he is loved by all except his wife. One autumn day he escapes her nagging to wander up into the mountains, and there after drinking some liquor offered to him by a band of very strange ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Considered one of the finest creations of Russian literature in the 20th century, The Master and Margarita is an amazing work of fantasy, a love story, a biting satire on Soviet life, and a lot more.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell; Lionel Kelly (Intro and Notes by); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Tony Benn (Foreword by)
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Category: International Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
The scenery of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressel is laid in a fictional English town Mugsborough. The book shows a detailed picture of a social, economic, and cultural life of a British society of the twentieth century. The novel has a sharp political orientation as well, it bitterl ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: International Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, ...Show more
Thus Spake Zarathustra by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster,contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphas ...Show more
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
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Category: International Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and end ...Show more
Twas the Night Before Christmas and Other Christmas Stories (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Rosemary Gray
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Here is a book no Christmas stocking should be without, a book that positively distils the spirit of the season. The title poem, familiar to children and adults the world over, introduces a collection of stories and verse with a Christmas theme, guaranteed to engage and amuse readers young and old. Lik ...Show more
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: International Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury. A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers, /em>, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In Twenty Years After the much beloved D'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to ...Show more
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
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Category: International Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer. Ho ...Show more
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
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Category: International Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless ...Show more
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