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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Collector's Edition) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night's Dreamone of the most popular of Shakespeare's works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd a ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Collectors Edition) by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
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"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart..."Crime and Punishmentis one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn ...Show more
Dracula (Collector's Edition) by BRAM STOKER
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
What is A Tale of Two Cities about : The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolut ...Show more
Hamlet (Wordsworth Collector's Edition) by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. LAWRENCE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an ...Show more
Macbeth (Wordsworth Collector's Edition) by William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's Macbethis one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the a ...Show more
Moby Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'. Moby Dickis the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabo ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by DANIEL DEFOE
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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoehas been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, oper ...Show more
Ulysses by JAMES JOYCE
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James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary ...Show more
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