HomeBlog The Wordsworth Blog Articles from a range of guest contributors Jun17 AuthorBookNews Summer Reading with the Classics: Timeless Stories for Long Days There’s something about summer that invites us to slow down and immerse ourselves in a good book. Whether you’re reading… Read More Jun11 AuthorBookNews Between Two Worlds: The Weird Tales of Arthur Machen In his seminal 1927 essay ‘Supernatural Horror in Literature’, an overview of the genre from the folk tales of primitive… Read More Jun6 AuthorBook The Shadowy World of Edith Nesbit Denise Hanrahan Wells looks the supernatural short stories of Edith Nesbit, now available in our new publication Man-size in Marble… Read More May15 AuthorBookClassic Nesbit & Hubert Bland: The Truth Behind ‘Woman of Stone’ You might recall that just before Christmas last year I wrote a post about the BBC’s ‘Ghost Story for Christmas’… Read More May8 AuthorBookClassic Sassy, Sharp & Still Slaying: Why Jane Austen is the Original Literary Queen At Wordsworth Editions, we’ve published dozens of iconic writers — but let’s be honest: Jane Austen never goes out of… Read More Apr6 AuthorBook The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens David Ellis revisits Charles Dickens’ fourth novel, The Old Curiosity Shop Dickens’s novels are full of members of the older generation… Read More