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Agnes Grey by ANNE BRONTE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poign ...Show more
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth centur ...Show more
Candide and Other Works by Voltaire
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and is one of the thinkers who prepared the ...Show more
Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy; T. C. B. Cook (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy s late fiction and the first major fictional work to be published by the author after his crisis and conversion to Christianity. The story of the life and death at the age of forty-five, of a high court prosecutor in 19th-century Russia, it ...Show more
Devils (Words Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett (Translator); A. D. P. Briggs (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe ...Show more
Faust by JOHANN GOETHE
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Category: Poetry & Plays | 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
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions as well as high poetry, blended in such a way as to demonstrate the assured dramatic touch of Shakespeare's maturity. Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned int ...Show more
Man In The Iron Mask by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a powe ...Show more
Notes from the Underground & Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Storiesis a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky’s short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, ...Show more
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. LAWRENCE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: good
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1 ...Show more
The Complete Mapp and Lucia: #1: Queen Lucia, Miss Map, Lucia in London by E. F. Benson
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Lucia is one of the great comic characters in English literature. Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, 'as by right divine' rules over the toy kingdom of 'Riseholme' based on the Cotswold ...Show more
The Complete Mapp and Lucia: #2: Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress, Trouble for Lucia by E. F. Benson
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye). Their constant skirmishes ensure that every game ...Show more