Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its...

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...

With an Introduction and Notes by Charles P.C. Pettit Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet Major is set in Wessex...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest...

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

George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish...

In this famous story of seduction, two highly intelligent but amoral French aristocrats plot the downfall of a respectable young...

Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in...

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

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its...

Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a...

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

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat,...

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

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic...

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...

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

Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction. Many of these stories, like...

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

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Richard III...

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

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man...

Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Much Ado About Nothing...

This title includes an introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury.
A year after the publication of "The...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, The Godolphin and Latymer School, formerly of Royal Holloway, University of...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
James Joyce's astonishing...

Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is not only a classic science fiction novel, it is also a thrilling adventure yarn....

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