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Eugene Onegin by A.S. Pushkin
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is, for Russians, their greatest writer; Eugene Onegin is his greatest work. Yet it remains little known outside Russia. Attempts to render Pushkin's Russian stanzas into verse have tried in vain to imitate the most inimitable features of the original, while masking many of ...Show more
Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser.
This tale opens with the knight, Redcrosse, undertaking a quest in aid of his beloved, Una. In order to succeed, and be united with Una, Redcrosse must overcome his own human failings as well as the evil tricks of the magician Archimago.
Faust by JOHANN GOETHE
Category: Fiction | 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
Five Great Comedies by William Shakespeare
Category: No Category | Series: Classics of World Literature
The four comedies collected in this text were written between 1595 and 1602, and demonstrate the evolution of Shakespearean comic form. The collective triumph of these plays lies in their mingling of humourous stage business and word-play with a more serious consideration ofissues of identity, gender, d ...Show more
Five Great Tragedies by William Shakespeare
Category: No Category | Series: Classics of World Literature
A volume of five of Shakespeare's most enduring works of tragedies, offering perennial insights into human emotion as well as telling inscriptions of the particular concerns of Shakespeare's own day.
Five Jacobean Tragedies by Thomas Middleton; John Webster; William Rowley
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser.
Haunted by the dance of death, these plays contain powerful critiques of existing inequalities. A common theme throughout is the powerful woman who is more than a match for the men who try to silence her.
Four Late Plays by William Shakespeare
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser.
The Shakespeare comedies collected in this text are frequently known as the romances. It is argued that they conclude in a spirit of hope as the main characters are reunited in an aura of reconciliation, wrongs are righted, and exiles returned to their homes.
Four Plays - Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction by Ellen Rees, Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo. The plays of Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) are critically acclaimed throughout the world. The father of modern drama, Ibsen broke with theatrical conventions and created a more realistic form of drama th ...Show more
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser.
A fantasy of life amongst the monks and friars of 16th-century France. Within the text, Rabelais espouses a positive view of life in which tolerance, goodness, understanding and wisdom are opposed to dogmatism, pride and cruelty.
General Introduction to Psychonalysis by Sigmund Freud
Category: Self-Help | Series: Classics of World Literature Ser.
Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The 'Freudian slip', the 'Oedipus complex', 'childhood sexuality', 'libido', 'narcissism' 'penis envy', the 'castration complex', the 'id', the 'ego' and the 'superego', 'denial', 'repre ...Show more
Gogol Three Plays - The Government Inspector - Marriage - The Gamblers by Nikolai Gogol; Stephen Mulrine
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics Ser.
'This collection contains Gogol''s three completed plays. The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities- ''I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad ...Show more
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Joy Cowley (Retold by); Eun-shil Kim (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books | Series: World Classics Ser.
Recreated with 3D modelling, there has never been a 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' quite like this. The timeless story leaps out of the page, as the three bears' orderly and peaceful existence is thrown into chaos when Goldilocks stumbles upon their empty house.