Moreau's highly controversial methods and ambitions conflict with the religious, moral and scientific norms of his day and Wells...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing...

With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse. Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. Shakespeare's Macbeth is...

The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a...

The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. A Nobel...

Tins collection brings together Jane Austen's earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at...

'Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was...

Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry...

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury...

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme...

' … once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex...

This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to...

The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early...

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

This title includes an introduction and notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State...

Virginia Woolf's Orlando, "the longest and most charming love letter in literature," playfully constructs the figure of Orlando...

Jules Verne (1828-1905) possessed that rare storyteller`s gift of being able to present the far-fetched and the downright...

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

Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title,...

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

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself,...

In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically...

"Northanger Abbey" tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy,...

With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham.
Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a...

Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household .."it Mansfield Park, it has...

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The Pickwick Papers is Dickens first novel and...

With an Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.
Wuthering Heights is the wild, passionate story of...

In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Henry Jekyll discovers a monster First published to immediate acclaim in...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a...