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Dracula, A Mystery Story by BRAM STOKER
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
When Jonathan Harker visits the remote Transylvanian castle of Count Dracula, little does he know that he will become a captive of the undead! Stalked by inhuman creatures, in a tale dripping with chilling tension that spins us across Europe, Harker and his friends must try to resist falling prey to the ...Show more
Dracula (Collector's Edition) by BRAM STOKER
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
What is A Tale of Two Cities about : The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolut ...Show more
Dubliners (Collector's Edition) by James Joyce
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of dome ...Show more
Egyptian Ancient Origins: Stories of People and Civilization by J. K. JACKSON
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
A striking companion volume to the Myths and Legends title, exploring the ancient origins of Egyptian society and culture. Gorgeous Collector's Edition which brings to life culture of one of the great founding civilisations. Companion volume to Egyptian Myths and Legends in the same series, this title b ...Show more
Egyptian Myths and Legends by Joyce Tyldesley (Introduction by); J. K. Jackson (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. The Myths of Ancient Egypt are tied intimately to the presence and natural rhythms of the Nile. With their animalistic mythology, the Egyptians explained the effects of famine, harvest, floods and death by creating a pantheon of gods that still holds our fascination today. ...Show more
Emma by JANE AUSTEN
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd (Collector's Edition) by THOMAS HARDY
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Thomas Hardy brings us an England that once existed but no more. It is rural, traditional, pastoral - a society of mannered conduct that flows like a deep river where powerful currents eddy and swirl. In this powerful novel of love and disillusion, Hardy's heroine is torn between the three men in her li ...Show more
Frankenstein (Collector's Edition) by MARY SHELLEY
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1818 first edition text of the novel, introduced and annotated by J. Paul Hunter. Three maps and eight illustrations. A wealth of source and contextual materials, thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics include "Sources, Influences, Ana ...Show more
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by MARY SHELLEY
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
A powerful masterpiece from the gothic pen of Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein is a man of science obsessed with the idea of creating life. So much so, that he creates a giant, human-like being out of a patchwork of corpses. However, on achieving his miracle, Frankenstein finds himself horrified by his ...Show more
Great Expectations (Collector's Edition) by Dickens C
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectationstraces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memo ...Show more
Great Gatsby by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge ), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsbyis F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with ...Show more
Greek Ancient Origins: Stories of People and Civilization by J. K. JACKSON
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
A striking companion volume to Greek Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Ancient Greek culture, from its tribal beginnings to its foundational impact on modern life. Gorgeous Collector's Edition. The period of the first Ancient Greek peoples, the Mycenean civilization, from the 1700s BCE ...Show more