Editorial Wordsworth Classics
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- Wordsworth Classics, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-433-7
EAN 9781853264337
With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communicated in language and idiom regarded by many at the ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 4,40 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-239-5
EAN 9781853262395
With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West.Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 4,40 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-238-8
EAN 9781853262388
With an Introduction and Notes by Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Return of the Native is widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy's Wessex novels. He evokes the dismal presence and menacing beauty of Egdon Heath - reaching out to touch the lives and fate of all who dwell on it.The ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-419-1
EAN 9781853264191
With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll. Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to her death.She had an immense breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for life, ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-414-6
EAN 9781853264146
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterised as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages. Much given to melancholy and feelings of aching desolation, ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 832 páginas
PVP: 4,40 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-205-0
EAN 9781853262050
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Department of English, University of Keele. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'. Old ...
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With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Translations are by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon).JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the far-fetched and the downright unbelievable in such a way ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 1993
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-123-7
EAN 9781853261237
In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the help of a selfless Swallow helps people in distress. As well as The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend and The Remarkable Rocket, this collection contains ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 1993
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-85326-071-1
EAN 9781853260711
All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'. Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story.His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 1993
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 4,40 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-064-3
EAN 9781853260643
The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations.The novel is set in a period of ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 5,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-008-7
EAN 9781853260087
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'. Moby Dick 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 ...
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Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 4,40 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-012-4
EAN 9781853260124
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers.With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great ...
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