‘… the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death’s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as...

‘White Nights’ is one of Dostoevsky’s earlier short stories but one of his most enduringly popular. It tells the story of four...

An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale...

The perfect gift for any Jane Austen lover. Box set contains six books, together creating a comprehensive collection of Austen’s...

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Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a...

'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her...

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of...

In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany,...

Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The...

The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her...

Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Winter's Tale, one...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth...

Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William...

'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'.
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As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its...

Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
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With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury...

"To the Lighthouse" is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it...

'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from...

There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron grey; the...

This book is edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
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Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in "Dubliners" show us...

There are four of them - George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, .Montmorency - all participants in a boating expedition...

Generally considered to be F.Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, "The Great Gatsby" is a consummate summary of the "roaring...

Translated by Constance Garnett.
With an introduction by A. Briggs.

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Considered by many to be Dickens’ finest novel, Great Expectations traces the...

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Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English...