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The Great Gatsby
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 115 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-041-4
EAN 9781853260414
With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury, this book is generally considered to be F Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel. "The Great Gatsby" is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-212-8
EAN 9781853262128
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests and uninvited visitors alike, while the ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
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ISBN 978-1-85326-221-0
EAN 9781853262210
This title includes introduction and notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, "Silas Marner" is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
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ISBN 978-1-85326-176-3
EAN 9781853261763
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher. George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set largely in the ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
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ISBN 978-1-85326-040-7
EAN 9781853260407
This book includes an introduction and notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. A historical romance, "The Three Musketeers" tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-033-9
EAN 9781853260339
With an Introduction by Dr. Julian Wolfreys, this edition of "The Adventures x{0026} Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" contains the earliest cases of the greatest fictional detective of all time. It comprises the complete "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", newly reprinted from the original text of "The Strand Magazine". It is illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
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ISBN 978-1-85326-039-1
EAN 9781853260391
This book includes an introduction and notes by Peter Merchant, Senior Lecturer in English, Canterbury Christ Church University College and illustrations by Hablot K Browne (Phiz). This novel traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dicken's based his historical detail on ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
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ISBN 978-1-84022-601-0
EAN 9781840226010
In 1795, the 24 year old Scottish surgeon Mungo Park set out from the Gambia to trace the Niger's course. This journal records his experiences. Throughout his travels and misadventures the author records what he sees as accuratly as he could, and without presuming European superiority.
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
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ISBN 978-1-85326-232-6
EAN 9781853262326
Unusually for Dickens, "Hard Times" is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However human joy is not excluded thanks to ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
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ISBN 978-1-85326-004-9
EAN 9781853260049
This book contains introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Keele University and Illustrations by Marcus Stone. Considered by many to be Dicken's finest novel, "Great Expectations" traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-268-5
EAN 9781853262685
Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories include A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life and The Cricket on the Hearth.
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
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ISBN 978-1-85326-739-0
EAN 9781853267390
This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780. Dickens' targets are prejudice, intolerance, religious bigotry and nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who exploit these for selfish ends. His intense account of the riots is interwoven with ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-045-2
EAN 9781853260452
This book includes an introduction and notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first publication in 1719, "Robinson Crusoe" has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-073-5
EAN 9781853260735
With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York, "Moll Flanders" follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-743-7
EAN 9781853267437
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-037-7
EAN 9781853260377
First published in 1900, "Lord Jim" established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-240-1
EAN 9781853262401
"Heart of Darkness" is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-044-5
EAN 9781853260445
The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel's cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and on Rachel herself. ...
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- Wordsworth Classics, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-003-2
EAN 9781853260032
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 favourite Father Brown stories, ...
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