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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