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Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
'I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.' A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most mem ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a volcano in Iceland on a journey which will lead them to the centre of the earth. Along the w ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions as well as high poetry, blended in such a way as to demonstrate the assured dramatic touch of Shakespeare's maturity. Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned int ...Show more
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, it differs from that great work in every relevant respect. Where Burke uses the language of the governing classes, Paine ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeedin ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Wordsworth classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material ...Show more
The Collected Works of Nathanael West by Nathanael West
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The four novels gathered here constitute the complete longer works of one the most brilliant and original American writers. West's vision of American modernity is terrifyingly comical and diagnoses the tawdriness and meretriciousness of much of American popular culture. His greatest work, Miss Lonelyhea ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitxgerald
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the ...Show more
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne; Alex Dolby (Introduction by); W.H.G. Kingston (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
rare edition printed About The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Unde ...Show more
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of the hero - ...Show more