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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
The Best of Alexandre Dumas
Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Nineteenth century author Alexandre Dumas is one of the most widely read French authors of all time whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and adapted into nearly 200… Read More
The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish 19th-century writer and physician, most well-known for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, whose creation is generally considered to mark a turning-point… Read More