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Alice in Wonderland by LEWIS CARROLL
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White R ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by LUCY MONTGOMERY
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
When the Cuthberts send to an orphanage for a boy to help them at Green Gables, their farm in Canada, they are astonished when a talkative little girl steps off the train. Anne, red-headed, pugnacious and incurably romantic, causes chaos at Green Gables and in the village, but her wit and good nature de ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by L. MONTGOMERY
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a ...Show more
Black Beauty by ANNA SEWELL
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies. Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead. Seen through his eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the ...Show more
Book of Dinosaurs by D. Lambert
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Collection
Dinosuars continue to provoke a powerful fascination for each new generation, and this guide to the vanished creatures of the primeval world provides answers to questions such as: what were the dinosaurs?; how and why did they evolve from lower reptiles?; what did they eat and by what other creatures we ...Show more
Book of Divining the Future by Eva Shaw
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Collection
This work is a comprehensive A-Z encyclopedia of the techniques, methods and people involved in predicting the future from Roman augurs to Druid dendromancy, from the ancient I Ching to Nostradamus. Prediction techniques such as rhapsodomancy (sacred books), Ming sticks used in ancient China and still i ...Show more
Christmas Carol by CHARLES DICKENS
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward. This finest of all Chr ...Show more
Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe (HB) by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University o ...Show more
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by OSCAR WILDE
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture o ...Show more
Complete Andersen's Fairy Tales (HB) by Hans Christian Andersen
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For ...Show more
Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (HB) by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm K. Grimm; Brothers Grimm
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together wit ...Show more
Complete Novels of James Joyce - Wordsworth Editions by James Joyce
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