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Animal Farm by GEORGE ORWELL
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion i ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics/Literature | 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
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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-t ...Show more
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the ...Show more
Man In The Iron Mask by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a powe ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by GEORGE ORWELL
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopi ...Show more
Pinocchio (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Carlo Collodi
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
Carved by Old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. And Pinocchio is such a scamp that he gets into all sorts of mischief. He runs away and joins a circus but eventually the conscience of a talking cricket and Pinocchio's guardian fairy restore him to g ...Show more
Tales from King Arthur (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by C. Lang
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
In this selection of tales by the master folklorist Andrew Lang, the reader is taken into the romantic world of the gallant Knights of the Round Table and their courageous and chivalrous deeds, fair maidens, castles steeped in history, the quest for the Holy Grail, and the tragic love of King Arthur and ...Show more
Tales of Troy and Greece (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Andrew Lang
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons and the Wooden Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told. Also included in t ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination, caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a h ...Show more
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of Twelfth Night have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, but is further enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment. In it, Sir Toby Belch and his com ...Show more
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer. Ho ...Show more