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Candide and Other Works by Voltaire
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and is one of the thinkers who prepared the ...Show more
Chekhov: Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov (intro & notes Joe Andrews)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination. This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comi ...Show more
Complete Father Brown Stories by G. K. CHESTERTON
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in ...Show more
Complete Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens’ lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabr ...Show more
Complete Nonsense (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Edward Lear
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Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense S ...Show more
Count of Monte Cristo by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In hi ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | 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
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form. Following the life of David through ...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
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
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Category: History | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full ...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
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world ...Show more