Editorial Wordsworth Classics
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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
PVP: 4,40 €
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
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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
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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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