Wordsworth Editions (49)

The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats

ISBN: 9781853264542

Author: W. B. Yeats    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

The Wordsworth Poetry Library comprises the works of the greatest English-speaking poets, as well as many lesser-known poets. Each collection has a specially co...


The Wordsworth Poetry Library comprises the works of the greatest English-speaking poets, as well as many lesser-known poets. Each collection has a specially commissioned introduction.


Pages: 432


Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 23 mm


Publication Date: 01-09-2000


$19.99
Rudyard Kipling Complete Children's Stories

ISBN: 9781840220575

Author: Rudyard Kipling    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown ...


The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear. How did the Leopard get his spots? How did the Elephant get his trunk? In Just So Stories Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions. Puck of Pook's Hill relates how Dan and Una's magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings...And later, in Rewards and Fairies, the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to 'Good Queen Bess' and Sir Francis Drake. In Kipling's rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, M'Turk and the Beetle are a trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules, their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children - especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster. Kipling's wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection.


Pages: 864


Dimensions: 150 x 232 x 32 mm


Publication Date: 01-01-2005


$24.99
The Great Comedies and Tragedies

ISBN: 9781840221459

Author: William Shakespeare    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

This work includes the Comedies with Introductions by Judith Buchanan. These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges...


This work includes the Comedies with Introductions by Judith Buchanan. These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of marriages. The triumph of these plays lies in the way they mingle humorous stage business and dexterous word play with a more serious study of identity, gender, dreaming, the meaning of love, even of the theatre itself. They reassure us that with all its faults, the world will always in the end be redeemable.It also includes the Tragedies with Introductions by Emma Smith - 'Not for an age but for all time.' So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare's unique place among the world's great authors. Romeo and Juliet shows us the archetypal story of fated young love; Hamlet, the tortured psyche of the young prince of Denmark; Othello, a strikingly modern representation of racial difference; King Lear, a man stripped of all material and psychological comforts; and Macbeth, a dark investigation of the origins and effects of, evil.


Pages: 896


Dimensions: 111 x 178 mm


$19.99
Les Miserables: vol. 2

ISBN: 9781853260506

Author: Victor Hugo    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Pages: 512


Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 32 mm


$9.99
Far from the Madding Crowd

ISBN: 9781853260674

Author: Thomas Hardy    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Pages: 362


Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 23 mm


Publication Date: 01-09-1995


$9.99
Oliver Twist

ISBN: 9781853260124

Author: Charles Dickens    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Dickens reputation was enhanced and strengthened with Oliver Twist. The novel conatins many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, tem...


Dickens reputation was enhanced and strengthened with Oliver Twist. The novel conatins many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself, the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sykes, Nancy and 'The Artful Dodger'. Introduction and notes by Ella Westland, University of Exeter.


Pages: 400


$9.99
Pride and Prejudice

ISBN: 9781853260001

Author: Jane Austen    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

This ironic novel of manners follows the tale of Elizabeth Bennett and her prejudice for her suitor Darcy. The delineations of middle-class attitudes, moral fir...


This ironic novel of manners follows the tale of Elizabeth Bennett and her prejudice for her suitor Darcy. The delineations of middle-class attitudes, moral firmness and the author's sense of comic and satirical ridicule make Pride and Prejudice" one of the enduring classics."


Pages: 288


Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 19 mm


Publication Date: 01-09-1995


$9.99
Sons and Lovers

ISBN: 9781853260476

Author: D.H. Lawrence    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

This novel is Lawrence's semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating rel...


This novel is Lawrence's semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. Introduction and notes by Howard Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury.


Pages: 400


Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 21 mm


$9.99
The Plays of Oscar Wilde

ISBN: 9781840224184

Author: Oscar Wilde    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Pages: 480


Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 28 mm


Publication Date: 01-04-2000


$9.99
Washington Square

ISBN: 9781840224276

Author: Henry James    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James pr...


Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870s, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine's suitor. Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression.


Pages: 176


Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 13 mm


Publication Date: 01-08-2001


$9.99
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