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Voyage of the Beagle by CHARLES DARWIN
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropica ...Show more
Walden & Civil Obedience by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations - the illusory nature of much of what we call 'progress', the proper symbiotic relationship between man and the natural environment, the limitations of government, especially where it seek ...Show more
War of the Worlds / The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened. The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to di ...Show more
Water Babies (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Kingsley
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Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bo ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book.First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became ...Show more
Wind in the Willows (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Kenneth Grahame
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Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his 'Poop-poop-poop' road-hogging new motor car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father a ...Show more
Women in Love by D H Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a wh ...Show more
Wonderful Wizard of Oz & Glinda of Oz by L. FRANK BAUM
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
In the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell her to follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald C ...Show more
Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum
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The Wonderful World of the Wizard of Oz, which the the Library of Congress named as 'America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale', is one of the great works of children's literature. The story concerns Dorothy, a young girl from Kansas, who, with her little dog Toto, is caught up in a terrify ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love fo ...Show more