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Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tal ...Show more
Complete Works of William Shakespeare by SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The T ...Show more
Dictionary of Inventions by Gerald Messadie
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Dictionary of Shakespeare by Charles Boyce
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Great Gatsby by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined t ...Show more
Jane Eyre by CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a h ...Show more
Jungle Book by RUDYARD KIPLING
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgl ...Show more
Lewis Carroll (The Complete Illustrated)-2ndhand by Lewis Carroll
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniel's much loved drawings. However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundru ...Show more
Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the other hand it is a thought-provoki ...Show more
Little Women by L. M. ALCOTT
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconvention ...Show more
Little Women by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconve ...Show more
Moonfleet by J. MEADE FALKNER
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs Officers. Unofficially adopted by Block, John comes to learn the reasons for the noises in the graveyard at night, of 'Blackb ...Show more