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Animal Farm by GEORGE ORWELL
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion i ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a ...Show more
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
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Category: CLA | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens is a disturbing and powerful blend of Gothic melodrama and historical realism. This novel was Charles Dickens's first historical novel. Barnaby Rudge was published serially starting in 1840 in Master Humphrey's Clock. The story takes place against the backdrop of the Gor ...Show more
Christmas Carol by DICKENS CHARLES
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, usually known just as A Christmas Carol is a fairy-tale novel by a British classic Charles Dickens, that was published in 1843. It consists of five chapters, or staves as the author named them. Among all the stories about Christmas, A Christm ...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 by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
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Category: CLA | 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
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol; Anthony Briggs (Introduction by); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Isabel F. Hapgood (Translator)
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Category: CLA | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The landowner receives a payment and a relief of his tax burd ...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
Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith; Weedon Grossmith (Illustrator); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Michael Irwin (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine in 1888-89 and first appeared in book form, with extended text and added illustrations, in 1892. The Diary reco ...Show more
Down and Out in London and Paris and the Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell; David Rampton (Introductions and notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of the Indian Civil Service who chronicled the iniquities of imperialism. Both the books in this volum ...Show more
First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to Kent to write a play, he encounters Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist who has invented a material that counteracts gravity. This discovery enables the two men to set off on a fantastic journey to the Moon. But they are not prepared for what they find ...Show more