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Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Beatrix Potter (1866 – 1943) was largely ignored by her parents as she was growing up, and began writing and sketching as a means of occupying her time. She would come… Read More

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Plato lived sometime between c. 428 BC and c. 348 BC. He began his philosophical career as a student of Socrates and went on to become the founder of the Academy… Read More

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Friedrich Nietzsche is best known as a 19th century German philosopher and classical philologist, he wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor,… Read More

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 Nesbit was an English author and poet; she wrote approximately 40 books of fiction for children. According to her biographer, Julia Briggs, Nesbit was “the first modern writer for children.”… Read More

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. American born Howard Phillips Lovecraft is widely considered the 20th century’s most important writer of supernatural horror fiction. Forging a unique niche within the horror genre, he created what became known… Read More

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist whose works characterise the demoralising effects of modernism and urban industrialisation on society. Some of his most famous works include: Sons and Lovers; Women in Love and The… Read More

Wordsworth Classics new Best of series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic during the 19th century who made a reputation for himself as one of the most able and versatile writers of his… Read More

Wordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Joseph Rudyard was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist born in Bombay during the 19th Century. He is best known for his works of fiction, particularly The Jungle Book and its sequel… Read More