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Confessions of Saint Augustine
St Augustine s Confessions was written between AD 397-400. An autobiographical work, it was written in thirteen parts, each a complete text intended to be read aloud. Written in his early 40s, it documents the development of Augustine s thought from childhood into his adult life a life he considered in retrospect to be both… Read More
The Best of Oscar Wilde
Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and novelist who became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890’s and was one of the greatest celebrities of his time…. Read More
The Best of Edith Wharton
Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and three times Nobel Prize nominee. Her brilliantly witty novels and short stories exemplified keen psychological insight; these include: The House of Mirth;… Read More
The Best of Jules Verne
Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Jules Verne was a French author best known for his adventure novels which have had a great impact on the wider genre of science fiction. Interestingly, Verne is the second most-translated… Read More
The Best of Mark Twain
Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American author who lived during the 19th century. He is most renowned for his novels The Adventures of… Read More
The Best of Leo Tolstoy
Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Jules Verne was a French author best known for his adventure novels which have had a great impact on the wider genre of science fiction. Interestingly, Verne is the second most-translated… Read More
The Best of Robert Louis Stevenson
Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and travel writer; he is best known for his novels Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Unusually, he… Read More
The Best of Mary Shelley
Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited the works of her husband, the Romantic poet, Percy… Read More
The Best of William Shakespeare – The Tragedies
Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer to ever exist, in the English language. His entire lifework consist of approximately 38 plays, 154… Read More