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Best of Sherlock Holmes by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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Category: Literature | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davie ...Show more
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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
Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mys ...Show more
Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation and the terri ...Show more
Chekhov: Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov (intro & notes Joe Andrews)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination. This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comi ...Show more
Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
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With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens c ...Show more
Complete Father Brown Stories by G. K. CHESTERTON
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in ...Show more
Complete Nonsense (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Edward Lear
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense S ...Show more
Count of Monte Cristo by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
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With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In hi ...Show more
Cranford and Selected Short Stories by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); John Chapple (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple, University of Hull. The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the de ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Crime and punishment is probably Dostoevsky's most read and known novel and one of the most famous literary works of all time. Published in installments in 1866 in the journal «Russkij vestnik» («The Russian Messenger»), it is the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, which the author describes in a l ...Show more
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher. George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and ...Show more