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Macbeth (Wordsworth Collector's Edition) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Shakespeare's Macbethis one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the a ...Show more
Moby Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
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 Dickis 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
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dallowayheralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experience ...Show more
Oliver Twist (Collector's Edition) by CHARLES DICKENS
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Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers.With Oliver Twisthis reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, despe ...Show more
Picture of Dorian Gray (Collector's Edition) by OSCAR WILDE
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature -- "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife". Its manuscript was initially called First Impressions, but was never pub ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by DANIEL DEFOE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoehas been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, oper ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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LARGE PRINT EDITION. Romeo and Juliet (1597) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Inspired by an Italian tale adapted for an English audience in 1562 by Arthur Brooke and in 1567 by William Painter, Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet sometime between 1591 and 1595. Alongside Hamlet, it is one of Shakesp ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Collector's Edition) by Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy, never one to be conventional, took a very unconventional moral stance in this novel, which shocked Victorian readers. In doing so, he created one of the great romantic novels of all time, the story of a striking and tragic character who came to life for the reader as she did for the author ...Show more
Ulysses by JAMES JOYCE
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James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by EMILY BRONTE
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?' Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense and ...Show more