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Collected Poems 1934-1952
With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue Dylan Thomas wrote some of the best-known and best-loved poems of the twentieth century, amongst them ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’, ‘Fern Hill’ and ‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower’. This edition reproduces the Collected Poems 1934-1952 which the poet… Read More
Under Milk Wood
This edition includes the short story collection Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas’s best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is his… Read More
Thanksgiving
These six new editions are available now for purchase now. There’s always something to be thankful for.
Halloween 2023
It’s getting colder, the nights are getting longer, there is a crispness in the air that only comes with Autumn. That can only mean one thing; Halloween is approaching. We pick our pumpkins, we choose our costume and above all, we choose how we plan to scare ourselves silly. Here at Wordsworth HQ we think… Read More
New Collector’s Edition’s
Over the past six month we have been working with the Illustrator Jordi Solano, who has created these beautiful new covers! These new Collector’s Editions will be available to order from September 2023.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Collector’s Edition)
Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night’s Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. ‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’, jeers… Read More
Macbeth (Collector’s Edition)
Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the appalling emotional and… Read More
Hamlet (Collector’s Edition)
Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with humour, and its subtlety with spectacle. The Prince, Hamlet himself, is… Read More
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Collector’s Edition)
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent… Read More