Authors:Arthur Jacobs, Stanley Sadie,
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, collection, reference, opera, book
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1997-08-05
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1853263702
ISBN-13: 9781853263705

This concise and comprehensive guide is designed to meet the needs of today’s opera lover. It contains synopses of eighty-three major operas by forty-one composers from Monterverdi and Purcell, through Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Debussy and Janacek, to Alban Berg, Tippett and Britten. As the authors remark in the introduction, opera is a strange, complex and fascinating art, and its increasing popularity means that more and more people are exploring its subtleties and beauty. In The Wordsworth Book of Opera, the lively accounts of the plots and the characters, together with the musical examp

Authors:William Wordsworth, Jonathan Wordsworth,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: part, prelude, poems, abbey, tintern, wordsworth, pedlar, william
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 1985-01-31
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521319374
ISBN-13: 9780521319379

Author: Wordsworth
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Keywords: wordsworth, reference, library, collection, office, thesaurus, home, study
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1993
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1853263028
ISBN-13: 9781853263026

Arranged in alphabetical form, the entries in this thesaurus are suited to home, office and student use and are designed to provide the word being sought quickly. It contains over 150,000 entries with cross-referencing and both British and American English.

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, collection, classics, mutual, friend
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1853261947
ISBN-13: 9781853261947

With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College Our Mutual Friend, Dickens’ last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father’s heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances - a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evalu

Author: George Eliot
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, collection, classics, silas, marner
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1998-01-05
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1853262218
ISBN-13: 9781853262210

Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York Although the shortest of George Eliot’s novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the reader’s attention until the last page as Eppie’s bonds of affection fo

Author: Gustave Flaubert
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, collection, classics, madame, bovary
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1853260789
ISBN-13: 9781853260780

With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert’s contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist’s meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth-century successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction. Flaubert s protagonist in particular has never ceased to

Author: C. Robertson
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, reference, collection, quotations, humorous, book
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1853267597
ISBN-13: 9781853267598

Edited by Connie Robertson From Oscar Wilde’s witty observation in Lady Windermere’s Fan that ’I can resist everything except temptation’, to Zsa Zsa Gabor’s admission that ’I know nothing about sex, because I was always married’, and by way of Woody Allen’s numerous bon mots to the anonymous definition of psychiatry as being ’the care of the id by the odd’, Connie Robertson has woven together a hilarious, stimulating and thought-provoking collection of the best humorous quotations which will provide the reader with much to ponder