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Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often seemed to personify the Victorian Age, he was a poet before it began and his poems endure to speak clearly to this modern one. His mastery of a great variety of poetic forms and moods enables him to...

Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the...

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Charlotte Brontes heroine is plain, but she possesses courage and indomitable spirit, overcoming a rigid social order as the governess to the daughter of the mysterious...

Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen s most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box,...

The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare s works. The textual editing takes account of recent...

The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Much Ado About Nothing has long...

Virginia Woolfs singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving...

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through...

Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the authors development as he began to delve deeper into the springs of character. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented...

Little Women is one of the best-loved childrens stories of all time, based on the authors 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...

One of the great classics of western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche,...

The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. King Lear has been widely acclaimed...

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 Mowglis parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther,...

Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural...

This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947). Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are...

W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prize winner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his very self into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of...

The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kiplings early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology...

My name is Sherlock Holmes. it is my business to know what other people dont know. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyles brilliant detective the readers of The Strand Magazine. In these twenty three tales, collected...

Set in Hardys Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of...

This gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyles vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from...