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The Best of James Joyce

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet who is regarded as one of the most powerful and significant authors of the twentieth-century. Joyce is best known for his novel Ulysses; other… Read More

The Best of Henry James

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Henry James was an American writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. Some of his… Read More

The Best of Victor Hugo

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Victor Hugo was a French poet and novelist during the Romantic Movement. Within his birthplace he is most celebrated for his poetry, but outside, the rest of the world fell in… Read More

The Best of Homer

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. When or whether Homer lived at all, remains unknown but regardless, he is celebrated as the author of the iconic Iliad and the Odyssey; stories that have been retold hundreds of thousands of times… Read More

The Best of Thomas Hardy

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Thomas Hardy was a realist novelist and poet who strove to highlight the pitfalls of Victorian society, with especial regard to the decline of the rural community. Most of his novels… Read More

The Best of Elizabeth Gaskell

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Elizabeth Gaskell was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer meticulous portrayals of the various facets of nineteenth-century English society, but she took particular… Read More

The Best of Sigmund Freud

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. He was the first to analysis dreams as forms of wish-fulfilment, a theory that can be read in… Read More

The Best F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born of Irish-American stock in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota. In 1913 he attended Princeton University. On leaving, without a degree, he joined the army but,… Read More

The Best of George Eliot

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. British born Mary Ann Evans is better known by her pen name, George Eliot; she was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels were often set in… Read More