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- Wordsworth Classics, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 4,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84022-694-2
EAN 9781840226942
In the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell her to follow the Yellow Brick ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-84022-084-1
EAN 9781840220841
Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. The intricate plot is ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2012
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ISBN 978-1-84022-682-9
EAN 9781840226829
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic and religious authorities. Epic in scale, the novel charts the ruinous effects of the laissez-faire mercantilist ethics on the men, women, and ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-469-6
EAN 9781853264696
With an Introduction by Angus Calder. As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915.Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-780-2
EAN 9781853267802
With an Introduction by Jeff Wallace. 'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-133-6
EAN 9781853261336
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84022-418-4
EAN 9781840224184
This book comes with an introduction and notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, "Lady Windermere's Fan". The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-015-5
EAN 9781853260155
This book comes with an introduction and notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham. Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84022-401-6
EAN 9781840224016
This title comes with an introduction and notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. "De Profundis" is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor. "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84022-408-5
EAN 9781840224085
This book comes with an introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-011-7
EAN 9781853260117
Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being ...
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An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of 'the great Father of Waters'. Part memoir, part travelogue, it expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality, and remains the most vivid, boisterous and provocative account of the cultural ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-086-5
EAN 9781853260865
This book includes introduction and notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. "There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-061-2
EAN 9781853260612
This book comes with an introduction and notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-023-0
EAN 9781853260230
This book comes with an introduction and notes by Dr Siv Jansson, University of Greenwich. Begun when the author was only eighteen and conceived from a nightmare, "Frankenstein", is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818. The novel has thus seared its ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
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ISBN 978-1-85326-010-0
EAN 9781853260100
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 companion outwit the pretentious Malvolio, who despite suffering their ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-85326-241-8
EAN 9781853262418
This collection of 100 of O Henry's finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America's best and best-loved short story writers. The variety of the stories is amazing; O Henry is as at home describing life south of the Rio Grande as he is chronicling the activities and concerns of ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-026-1
EAN 9781853260261
This book comes with an introduction and notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. "The Call of the Wild" (1903) and "White Fang" (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, "The Call of the Wild" is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 5,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84022-635-5
EAN 9781840226355
James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-048-3
EAN 9781853260483
This book contains introduction and notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in "Dubliners" show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and ...
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