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  • Jane Eyre
    Jane Eyre
    Brönte, Charlotte
    Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life a...

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  • Moby Dick
    Moby Dick
    Melville, Herman
    iMoby Dick by Herman Melville is 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 diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic.But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hand...

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  • Lurking Fear, The
    Lurking Fear, The
    Lovecraft, H. P.
    The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat--like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life--a loathsome night--spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity...

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  • Haunter of the Dark, The
    Haunter of the Dark, The
    Lovecraft, H.P.
    'They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.'From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume of tales penned by the greatest horror writer of the 2...

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  • King in Yellow, The
    King in Yellow, The
    Chambers, Robert W.
    With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'.With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by th...

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  • Divine Comedy, The
    Divine Comedy, The
    Alighieri, Dante
    The Divine Comedy: 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 gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditiona...

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  • Complete Father Brown Stories, The
    Complete Father Brown Stories, The
    Chesterton, G.K.
    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 the front rank of eccentric sleuths.This complete collection contains all the...

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  • Tales of Mystery and Imagination
    Tales of Mystery and Imagination
    Poe, Edgar Allan
    "Tales of Mystery & Imagination" by Edgar Allan Poe. With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex This collection of Poe s best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Premature Burial and The Tell--T...

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  • Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, The
    Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, The
    Mansfield, Katherine
    With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellinton, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, In a German Pension, appeared in 1911, and ...

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  • Collected Works of Oscar Wilde, The
    Collected Works of Oscar Wilde, The
    Wilde, Oscar
    Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his s...

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  • Wuthering Heights
    Wuthering Heights
    Brontë, Emily
    Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return ye...

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  • Alice in Wonderland
    Alice in Wonderland
    Carroll, Lewis
    With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter ...

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  • Pride and Prejudice
    Pride and Prejudice
    Austen, Jane
    Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband.With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible h...

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  • Whisperer in Darkness, The
    Whisperer in Darkness, The
    Lovecraft, H.P.
    That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last.The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the lege...

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  • Jack the Ripper
    Jack the Ripper
    Lynch, Terry
    Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They never succeeded in apprehending him, and to this day the mystery of his identity remains an enigma. But he did leave clues to his identity, and numerous theories have been enterta...

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  • Picture of Dorian Gray, The
    Picture of Dorian Gray, The
    Wilde, Oscar

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  • Sense & Sensibility
    Sense & Sensibility
    Austen, Jane
    Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival.Wordsworth Collector's Editions are compact cloth-bound hardbacks with matching ...

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  • Anne of Green Gables: Collector’s Edition
    Anne of Green Gables: Collector’s Edition
    Montgomery, Lucy Maud
    Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of A...

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  • Finnegans Wake
    Finnegans Wake
    Joyce, James
    Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape.This 'language' is based on English vocabulary and syntax...

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  • Karamazov Brothers,The
    Karamazov Brothers,The
    Dostoevsky, Fyodor
    Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs.As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha...

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  • Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, The
    Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, The
    Doyle, Arthur Conan
    The perfect gift for any Sherlock Holmes fan for only GBP19.99.Each boxset contains six books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the notorious detective's best cases and adventures.Beautifully packaged in a ridged, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork.Includes: Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes...

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  • Complete Poems of Walt Whitman
    Complete Poems of Walt Whitman
    Whitman, Walt

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  • Tales of Mystery & the Macabre
    Tales of Mystery & the Macabre
    Gaskell, Elizabeth
    With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.'In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged'.Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848) but she also wrote some fascinating...

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  • Drug & Other Stories, The
    Drug & Other Stories, The
    Crowley, Aleister
    This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume, only thirty-five were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first time.Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fic...

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  • Frankenstein
    Frankenstein
    Shelley, Mary
    Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would 'curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.' The tale is a superb blend of science fiction, mystery and thriller. Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experim...

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  • Essential Philosophical Works, The
    Essential Philosophical Works, The
    Hume, David
    David Hume (1711–1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–1740), published while Hume was still in his twenties, consists of three books on the understanding, the passions, and morals. It applies the experimental method of reasoning to huma...

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  • North and south
    North and south
    Gaskell, Elizabeth
    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 soc...

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  • Wuthering Heights
    Wuthering Heights
    Brontë, Emily
    Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's first and only published novel, written between October 1845 and June 1846, and published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. The decision to publish came after the success of her sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arr...

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  • Complete Poems of John Keats, The
    Complete Poems of John Keats, The
    Keats, John
    With an Introduction by Paul Wright.'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the 'Odes' and the two versions of the uncompleted epic 'Hyperion', and work which...

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  • Complete Brontë Collection, The
    Complete Brontë Collection, The
    Brontë, Charlotte / Brontë, Emily and Brontë, Anne.

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