Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Keywords: classics, wordsworth, south, north
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1853260932
ISBN-13: 9781853260933

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of Hull Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author’s first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine’s movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell’s skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society. This is a tale of hard-won triumphs - of rational thought over prejudice and of humane care over blind deference to the m

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

Authors:Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm,
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, classics, collection, children, grimm, tales, fairy
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1853261017
ISBN-13: 9781853261015

The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane’s charming line drawings.

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: library, collection, wordsworth, holmes, sherlock, complete
Number of Pages: 1408
Published: 2008-03-05
List price: $14.88
ISBN-10: 1840220767
ISBN-13: 9781840220766

This book contains all the investigations and adventures of the world’s most popular detective, Sherlock Holmes. From "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" to "His Last Bow", we follow the illustrious career of this quintessential British hero from his university days to his final case. His efforts to uncover the truth take him all over the world and into conflict with all manner of devious criminals and dangerous villains, but thankfully his legendary powers of deduction, and his faithful companion Dr. Watson, are more than up to the challenge.

Authors:Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Irene Testot-Ferry,
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, collection, classics, children, little, prince
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1853261580
ISBN-13: 9781853261589

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don’t dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thous

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: writings, gaol, reading, ballad, profundis
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-12-05
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1840224010
ISBN-13: 9781840224016

De Profundis is Wilde’s eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde’s literary executor. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898. This collection also includes the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism and two of his Platonic dialogues, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.

Author: Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: world, literature, classics, wordsworth, darthur, morte
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 1997-08-05
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1853264636
ISBN-13: 9781853264634

The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring and influential stories in world literature. Its themes - love, war, religion, treachery and family loyalty - are timeless, as are the reputations of its major characters, Arthur, Merlin, Guenever and Launcelot. Malory’s Le Morte Darthur is a story of noble knights, colourful tournaments and fateful love, set in a courtly society which is outwardly secure and successful, but in reality torn by dissent and, ultimately, treachery. Originally published in 1485, Malory’s Le Morte Darthur is here pr