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- [Books Designed for Women, Written by Women](https://wordsworth-editions.com/celebrating-women-who-wrote-for-women/) - As we enter 2026, Wordsworth Editions is proud to introduce a new luxury classics series that places women’s voices firmly at the centre of literary history. The Empress Collection is a three-book hardback series celebrating female writers long before feminism was formally defined. These novels are not only enduring classics of English literature, they are powerful explorations
- [📚 Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Banned Books Week](https://wordsworth-editions.com/📚-celebrating-the-freedom-to-read-banned-books-week/) - Each year, Banned Books Week shines a light on the freedom to read - a freedom that underpins literature, education and open-mindedness. It reminds us that books have power: the power to challenge, to inspire, to provoke thought and sometimes, to unsettle those who fear change. At Wordsworth Editions, we believe that literature should be
- [Jane Austen: The Facts and the Fiction](https://wordsworth-editions.com/jane-austen-the-facts-and-the-fiction/) - As Wordsworth republish James Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of his Aunt Jane, Sally Minogue reflects on what we do and don’t know about Jane Austen. The year in which we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen seems also to be the year of saying what we like about Jane Austen, much of it arrant nonsense passed
- [Five War Poets](https://wordsworth-editions.com/five-war-poets/) - Above all else, it is the poetry of the First World War that that has seared the horror of this conflict onto our collective memory. It was a war of poets, as professional writers and ordinary humanity took up the pen to try to record, interpret, mourn, or simply bear witness. When we hear the
- [Stephen’s Top Ten Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/stephens-top-ten-victorian-edwardian-ghost-stories/) - To get us in the mood for Halloween, the editor of our Mystery & Supernatural series, Dr Stephen Carver, picks some of his favourite classic ghost stories. I think ghost stories are ingrained in all of us. It’s one of our ways of coming to terms with death. In my case, my late mother was
- [Irish Ghost Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/irish-ghost-stories/) - Dr Stephen Carver introduces the latest addition to our Mystery & Supernatural series, Irish Ghost Stories From the Haunted 19th Century As the nights chill and draw in, and we move relentlessly towards Halloween, the mind turns naturally towards the ghost story. And as pumpkins are carved and displayed as an invitation to trick-or-treaters, we
- [How to read Darwin’s 'Origin' in 2025](https://wordsworth-editions.com/how-to-read-darwins-origin-in-2025/) - Go into any large chain bookstore in the UK – you know the one I mean. Cast your eyes over the shelves holding the latest non-fiction publications and consider the number that have a ‘How to’ title or sub-title, or a variant on this title. You can choose How Not To Age, by Michael Greger,
- [Shadows, Secrets, and Timeless Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/shadows-secrets-and-timeless-stories/) - Shadows, Secrets, and Timeless Stories: Why Gothic Classics Still Haunt Us The calendar has turned to October and with it comes the start of Halloween festivities! A month filled with flickering candles, haunted tales, and a touch of the macabre. There’s no better time to revisit the Gothic classics, those timeless stories that blend mystery,
- [Summer Reading with the Classics: Timeless Stories for Long Days](https://wordsworth-editions.com/summer-reading-with-the-classics-timeless-stories-for-long-days/) - There’s something about summer that invites us to slow down and immerse ourselves in a good book. Whether you’re reading on a sun-dappled terrace, stretched out on the beach, or curled up on a rainy afternoon, the season is ripe for literary exploration. And what better companions than the classics? At Wordsworth Editions, we believe
- [Why Supplying Indie Bookshops Still Matters – Especially Now](https://wordsworth-editions.com/why-supplying-indie-bookshops-still-matters-especially-now/) - As concerns grow around how some brands treat independents, we want to make one thing clear: Wordsworth Editions values and supports our partnerships with indie retailers. In an age of algorithm-driven recommendations, overnight delivery, and mass-market convenience, one might assume the days of browsing quiet shelves in a local bookshop are numbered. But here at
- [The Joy of Reading Rituals](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-joy-of-reading-rituals/) - For many of us, reading isn’t just about the story on the page — it’s about the ritual that surrounds it. The little routines we create before opening a book make the experience even more special, turning everyday moments into something to look forward to. At Wordsworth Editions, we know that reading is as much
- [The Ghost Man](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-ghost-man/) - Stephen Carver looks at the works of Algernon Blackwood On Halloween night 1947, British television viewers were mesmerised by the storytelling powers of Algernon Blackwood, then 78 years old. It was a simple format, the author sitting in an easy chair by a fireplace, just talking, a man in the chimney corner delivering a tale.
- [Sassy, Sharp & Still Slaying: Why Jane Austen is the Original Literary Queen](https://wordsworth-editions.com/why-jane-austen-is-the-original-literary-queen/) - At Wordsworth Editions, we’ve published dozens of iconic writers — but let’s be honest: Jane Austen never goes out of style. Two centuries after her death, she’s still setting hearts aflutter, sparking fierce debates, and teaching us the fine art of the slow burn romance. So what makes Austen the timeless force she is? Why
- [Nesbit & Hubert Bland: The Truth Behind ‘Woman of Stone’](https://wordsworth-editions.com/nesbit-hubert-bland-the-truth-behind-woman-of-stone/) - You might recall that just before Christmas last year I wrote a post about the BBC’s ‘Ghost Story for Christmas’ in anticipation of Woman of Stone. This was an adaptation of E. Nesbit’s 1887 story ‘Man-size in Marble’ by Mark Gatiss, who has breathed new life into the long-running series. Since then, I have had
- [The Shadowy World of Edith Nesbit](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-shadowy-world-of-edith-nesbit/) - Denise Hanrahan Wells looks the supernatural short stories of Edith Nesbit, now available in our new publication Man-size in Marble and Other Grim Tales The Shadowy World of Edith Nesbit Chances are, many readers know Edith Nesbit from her creation of courageous Bobbie in the successfully adapted 1905 novel The Railway Children. Or, possibly your
- [Between Two Worlds: The Weird Tales of Arthur Machen](https://wordsworth-editions.com/between-two-worlds-the-weird-tales-of-arthur-machen/) - In his seminal 1927 essay ‘Supernatural Horror in Literature’, an overview of the genre from the folk tales of primitive man to the pulp authors of his own day, H.P. Lovecraft named only four living authors as true ‘Masters of Horror’. These were Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M.R. James, and Arthur Machen. And Machen’s major
- [I am the eye with which the Universe, Beholds itself and knows itself divine](https://wordsworth-editions.com/eye-of-the-universe/) - Mia Rocquemore reflects on time and nature in the poetry of Shelley The most famous of Shelley's poems describes the annihilating effects of time: Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. (Ozymandias, 12-14) The sands of time, both literal and metaphorical,
- [The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-old-curiosity-shop-by-charles-dickens/) - David Ellis revisits Charles Dickens' fourth novel, The Old Curiosity Shop Dickens’s novels are full of members of the older generation who fail in their obligations to the young. It is if he could never quite forgive or forget how in the early 1820s his indebted parents took him out of school, when he was still
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Old Curiosity Shop](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-old-curiosity-shop/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Dickens's fourth novel, containing his familiar mix of comedy and drama.
- [Yorkshire's Literary Influence](https://wordsworth-editions.com/yorkshires-literary-influence/) - Does it make sense to think of writing as belonging to a particular place? Sally Minogue reflects on the influence Yorkshire has had on our national literature. A couple of weeks ago I was staying in Yorkshire, my native county, not, as usual, in the homes of my sister or niece, but in a little
- ['Miss Austen' - the BBC drama reviewed](https://wordsworth-editions.com/miss-austen-the-bbc-drama-reviewed/) - ‘She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a thought concealed from her, and it is as if I had lost a part of myself’ (Cassandra Austen’s words about her sister Jane after Jane’s death) Miss 2025 marks the 250th anniversary year of
- [Charlotte Brontë and 'Villette' in Context](https://wordsworth-editions.com/charlotte-bronte-and-villette-in-context/) - On first publication in 1853 Villette received a rather varied reception, and did not achieve the same level of success as Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë and 'Villette' intext This was Brontë’s fourth written novel and third to be published. It was also the final novel to be published during her lifetime. Her first written novel
- [Woman of Stone](https://wordsworth-editions.com/woman-of-stone/) - M.R. James, Mark Gatiss, and the Evolution of the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas Woman of Stone ‘The ghost is innately conservative,’ Professor Clive Bloom once wrote, in an uncompromising essay on M.R. James. A bold claim in gothic theory, it makes perfect sense when you think about it. ‘Ghosts tell us of stability and
- [Man-Size in Marble: A Tale for Halloween](https://wordsworth-editions.com/man-size-in-marble-a-tale-for-halloween/) - ‘Whatever you do, sir, lock the door early on All Saints’ Eve, and make the blessed cross-sign over the doorstep and on the windows.’ Halloween season, in common with Christmas, is the time of year many an avid reader will reach for a ghostly tale. Whilst sitting comfortably by the fireside hopefully the story will
- [‘There was no possibility of taking a walk that day’[1]](https://wordsworth-editions.com/there-was-no-possibility-of-taking-a-walk-that-day1/) - To celebrate midwinter, Sally Minogue looks at some of the ways writers have drawn inspiration from winter weather. As I write, I’m looking out over a perfect winter landscape. The Frost has performed its secret ministry. In the hoar-laden grass near to my window, chaffinch, goldfinch and other small birds bend busily to seed fallen
- [New release: The Sun Also Rises](https://wordsworth-editions.com/new-release-the-sun-also-rises/) - The hard-boiled paradox: Stefania Ciocia looks into her soft spot for Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” There is a little smiley face pencilled in next to this exchange in my old copy of The Sun Also Rises (1926), from twenty-odd
- [J.S. Le Fanu and the Golden Age of the Ghost Story](https://wordsworth-editions.com/j-s-le-fanu-and-the-golden-age-of-the-ghost-story/) - Stephen Carver looks at the work of the influential Irish author.
- [‘The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open’](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-great-floodgates-of-the-wonder-world-swung-open-herman-melvilles-great-novel-moby-dick/) - Sally Minogue examines the ‘wonder-world’ of Herman Melville’s great novel Moby Dick. ‘Call me Ishmael’: is there a more famous opening sentence in fiction? People who have never read Moby Dick, people who have never read the Bible, and don’t know who Ishmael is in either text, may still recognize and even in some way
- [Classic of the Week: Nicholas Nickleby](https://wordsworth-editions.com/classic-of-the-week-nicholas-nickleby/) - David Ellis looks at Charles Dickens' third novel. Classic of the Week: Nicholas Nickleby If there were a prize for the most unpleasant character in Nicholas Nickleby it would be hotly contested. Prominent among the contestants would of course be Wackford Squeers, the ignorant barbarian who runs a school in Yorkshire for boys whose parents
- [David Stuart Davies (1946-2024)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/david-stuart-davies-1946-2024/) - Regular readers of our blog will be sad to hear that our old friend David Stuart Davies passed away in August. The association with Wordsworth of David and his wife Kathryn dates back to the late 1990s, the days of the £1 classic paperback, when Kathryn contributed an introduction to our edition of Agnes Grey, and David
- [‘He do the Police in different voices’](https://wordsworth-editions.com/he-do-the-police-in-different-voices/) - As Charles Dickens’ last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, is adapted for BBC Radio 4, Sally Minogue looks at the novel’s relationship to his world and to ours. I’ve just spent a few days in London, where this blog was very much on my mind. In Our Mutual Friend (1865), as often in Dickens’ novels,
- [The Witch’s Curse: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Female Gothic](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-witchs-curse-elizabeth-gaskell-and-the-female-gothic/) - Something for Halloween… The Witch's Curse In the great pantheon of Victorian British literature, Elizabeth Gaskell is among its most versatile authors. Of course, she will always be associated with her powerful industrial novels Mary Barton and North and South. But there is also the progressive social protest of Ruth – a contentious novel in
- [Kate Chopin: Two Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/kate-chopin-two-stories/) - Kate Chopin was not a conventional woman. She was a professional writer at a time when it was unusual and somewhat irregular for a woman to have such an occupation. She was unconventional though, before she became a writer and shocked her in-laws with her behaviour which would have seemed most unladylike in New Orleans
- [Stephen Carver looks at Moby Dick - Part One](https://wordsworth-editions.com/moby-dick-2021/) - ‘One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world’: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)
- [Stephen Carver looks at Moby Dick - Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/moby-dick-part-two/) - “From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale"
- [Sherlock Holmes in 1924: A Centenary](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sherlock-holmes-in-1924-a-centenary/) - Sherlock Holmes fiction probably conjures up images of fog bound London streets, hansom cabs and cosy scenes in 221b Baker Street with its Victorian décor. However, this year marks the centenary of the publication of three particular Sherlock Holmes short stories and it may seem strange to think of Sherlock Holmes in the 1920s. ‘The
- [Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/tolstoys-anna-karenina/) - ‘The aim of an artist is not to solve a problem irrefutably, but to make people love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations’ (Count Leo Tolstoy) In this final blog on a trio of great Russian novels, Sally Minogue suggests reasons for thinking that Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is the greatest of the three. The
- [Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dostoevskys-the-idiot/) - ‘The idea is to depict an absolutely wonderful person.’ (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1867) Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' The Idiot is the novel in which Dostoevsky attempted the difficult experiment of creating a central character who embodied goodness. Sally Minogue looks at the resulting fiction. The Idiot (1869) was the first of the big Russian novels that I
- [Meet the Author](https://wordsworth-editions.com/meet-the-author/) - We wrestle with the problems of working with a group of writers who have joined the choir invisible.
- [Turgenev's 'Fathers and Sons'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/turgenevs-fathers-and-sons/) - ‘The great drama of his life was the struggle for a better state of things in Russia.’ (Henry James on Ivan Turgenev) The publication of Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862) caused an unprecedented sensation in Russia. Sally Minogue has a look at its contemporary context, and at the novel as we might read it today.
- [The Golden Age of Russian Literature](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-golden-age-of-russian-literature/) - At the start of a short series of blogs on three nineteenth-century Russian novels, Sally Minogue considers their powerful ongoing appeal. The Golden Age of Russian Literature I have mentioned in an earlier blog on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov the fascination that the great Russian novels of the nineteenth-century exerted on me as a
- [The Aspern Papers](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-aspern-papers/) - Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at one of Henry James' best-known works. What does a Henry James novella and Percy Bysshe Shelley have in common? Well, an anecdote related to the latter inspired the former. Whilst staying with friends in Florence during 1887, Henry James recorded in his Notebooks a story he had heard concerning Claire
- [Lord Byron](https://wordsworth-editions.com/lord-byron/) - 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of poet Lord Byron’s death. Sally Minogue looks at his writing and his life, and the age-old question as to whether we can separate the two. It’s difficult to write about George Gordon, Lord Byron, without referring to the soubriquet ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, so let’s get that
- [Book of the Week: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-of-the-week-the-hunchback-of-notre-dame/) - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is the classic beauty and the beast tale written by Victor Hugo, the author of that other enduring tale of passion and tragedy, Les Miserables. Hugo, (1802 -1885) was a prolific novelist poet, playwright and politician. He became one of the masters of French romanticism, a literary movement that placed emphasis
- [Dylan Thomas, Taylor Swift, and ‘Tortured Poets’](https://wordsworth-editions.com/tortured-poets-department-dylan-thomas-taylor-swift/) - On International Dylan Thomas Day, and as Taylor Swift name-checks Dylan Thomas on her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, Sally Minogue looks at Thomas’s cultural power and the long-standing relationship between poetry and song. ‘Swifties’ (my own fifteen-year-old great-niece numbered amongst them) adore Taylor Swift. It’s no ordinary liking for your average pop star;
- [Book of the Week: Sense and Sensibility](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-of-the-week-sense-and-sensibility/) - Sense and Sensibility was Jane Austen’s first published but second written novel. Denis Hanrahan Wells takes up the story. She initially began writing it at the age of nineteen under the title ‘Elinor and Marianne’ as an epistolary novel, a form which was very popular at this time. She had begun the novel shortly after
- [Bumps in the Night Part One](https://wordsworth-editions.com/history-of-the-ghost-story-part-one/) - Part One of David Stuart Davies' History of the Ghost Story
- [Festive Humbug!](https://wordsworth-editions.com/christmas-carol/) - A seasonal tale of Charles Dickens and 'A Christmas Carol' by David Stuart Davies.
- ['Little Women' on the BBC](https://wordsworth-editions.com/little-women-on-the-bbc/) - The pleasures and pains of TV adaptations: after 'Howards End', the BBC revisits 'Little Women'. Stefania Ciocia reviews it for us.
- [Frankenstein 200](https://wordsworth-editions.com/frankenstein/) - Sally Minogue re-evaluates Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein on the 200th anniversary of the first, 1818 edition
- [Shivering your timbers!](https://wordsworth-editions.com/treasure-island/) - ‘I was going to sea myself…to seek for buried treasures!’ David Stuart Davis revisits 'Treasure Island'...
- [Sally Minogue looks at The Little Prince](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-little-prince/) - How do we read a fable? Sally Minogue ponders the mysteries of 'The Little Prince'
- [David Stuart Davies explores The Secret Garden](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-secret-garden/) - David Stuart Davies explores this cross-generational classic
- [David Stuart looks at Black Beauty](https://wordsworth-editions.com/black-beauty-and-world-book-day/) - To celebrate World Book Day 2018, David Stuart Davies looks at one of the best-loved stories ever written.
- [Stephen Carver explores The Dark Places of the Earth](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dark-world-imperial-victorian-gothic/) - Stephen Carver explores the dark world of Imperial Victorian Gothic
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Robin Hood](https://wordsworth-editions.com/robin-hood/) - 2018 marks 150 years since the birth of Henry Gilbert, author of the best-known version of the classic tales of Sherwood Forest. David Stuart Davies takes a look at the famous outlaw.
- [Stefania Ciocia at the Bridge with Julius Caesar](https://wordsworth-editions.com/julius-caesar/) - Caesar says “Do this!”: Stefania Ciocia is in her element in the Roman mob at The Bridge Theatre
- [David Stuart Davies looks at the history of The Woman in White](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-woman-in-white/) - In advance of the new BBC adaptation beginning on Sunday, David Stuart Davies looks at the history of the first 'sensation' novel.
- [Henry James on Radio 4](https://wordsworth-editions.com/radio-4-henry-james/) - Sally Minogue listens in to Radio 4’s ‘Love Henry James’ season and reflects on his penetration of the human condition.
- [David Stuart Davies reviews BBC's The Woman in White](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-woman-in-white-review/) - David Stuart Davies reviews the BBC production that concluded last night.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Wizard of Oz](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-wizard-of-oz/) - David Stuart Davies looks at this ever-popular book.
- [The Woman in White - a last word](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-woman-in-white-a-last-word/) - The lady was not ugly! Sally Minogue suggests that the BBC adaptation of 'The Woman in White' missed a few tricks by not trusting to Wilkie Collins’ word.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Diary of a Nobody](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-diary-of-a-nobody/) - David Stuart Davies takes a look at the classic Victorian comedy novel.
- [Sally Minogue looks at Katherine Mansfield](https://wordsworth-editions.com/katherine-mansfield/) - ‘I am a writer first’*: Sally Minogue looks at the work and the life of Katherine Mansfield.
- [In America, no one can hear you scream](https://wordsworth-editions.com/in-america-no-one-can-hear-you-scream/) - Guest blogger Parker Lancaster marks the 4th of July by looking at 'Democracy in America', the classic 1835 work from Alexis de Tocqueville, and at democracy in America today.
- [The Happy Prince](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-happy-prince/) - ‘Both Sides Now’: Sally Minogue and Stefania Ciocia give alternative views of Rupert Everett’s film about Oscar Wilde, 'The Happy Prince'.
- [Sally Minogue ponders Anne of Green Gables](https://wordsworth-editions.com/anne-of-green-gables/) - ‘I did not write Green Gables for children’: Sally Minogue ponders a story for all readers.
- [Bumps in the Night Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-history-of-the-ghost-story-part-two/) - David Stuart Davies concludes his short history of the Ghost Story
- [The 'Strand Magazine' - Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-strand-part-2/) - The final part of the story of the 'Strand Magazine'.
- [Gore by Proxy: The Penny Dreadfuls. Part One](https://wordsworth-editions.com/penny-dreadful-part-one/) - Part One of David Stuart Davies' story of the 'Penny Dreadfuls'.
- [Unsettling Dark Pleasures - Part One](https://wordsworth-editions.com/gothic-fiction-part-one/) - A short history of Gothic fiction in two parts by David Stuart Davies
- [Vampire: Blood is the Life - Part One](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-vampire-tale/) - David Stuart Davies looks into the history of the Vampire story.
- [Malcolm Andrew tells the story of A Christmas Carol](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-christmas-carol/) - Malcolm Andrews, editor of 'The Dickensian', tells the story of this much-loved Christmas classic
- [How Rudyard Kipling helped make the modern Disney](https://wordsworth-editions.com/how-rudyard-kiplings-the-jungle-book-helped-make-the-modern-disney-part-1/) - Parker Lancaster analyses the links between the famous author and the entertainment conglomerate
- [OPINION: An apologia for classic horror](https://wordsworth-editions.com/opinion-an-apologia-for-classic-horror/) - These are indeed dark times for horror fans, and not the good kind of dark, filled with nameless fears, catatonic psychological terror, unspeakable dread, or snarling beasties. Parker Lancaster considers the evidence.
- [Mystery Murder and Mayhem at Christmas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/mystery-murder-and-mayhem-at-christmas/) - David Stuart Davies explores classic detective fiction for tales of dark deeds done at Chrsitmas
- [Annus Horribilis](https://wordsworth-editions.com/annus-horribilis/) - Perhaps the best thing we can say about 2016 is that it is nearly over. We look back in anguish.
- [Post-Truth : Word of the Year 2016](https://wordsworth-editions.com/post-truth-the-wordsworth-editions-word-of-the-year/) - We consider a new career in falsehood, fabrication and forgery...
- [Lunchtime Drinking, Gin & Tonic & Book Fairs](https://wordsworth-editions.com/lunchtime-drinking-gin-tonic-book-fairs/) - This month's news from Wordsworth
- [Tales of Book Fairs Past and Present](https://wordsworth-editions.com/tales-of-book-fairs-past-and-present/) - We look back at another successful (but quite sober) London Book Fair
- [Book of the Week: Tess of the d'Urbervilles](https://wordsworth-editions.com/tess-of-the-durbervilles-blog/) - On the day of Thomas Hardy's birth, David Stuart Davies looks at the book that some consider to be his finest work.
- [Thomas Hardy - 177 today](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-poetry-of-thomas-hardy/) - Sally Minogue offers some lugubrious birthday reflections.
- [Celebrating 25 Years of Wordsworth Classics](https://wordsworth-editions.com/25-years-of-classics/) - It's a quarter of a century since the launch of the Wordsworth £1 Classic
- [Dickens and Lawrence: A tale of two halves](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dickens-and-lawrence-a-tale-of-two-halves/) - David Ellis considers how 'David Copperfield' and 'Sons and Lovers' both fade after half time.
- [David Stuart Davies takes a look at The Wind in the Willows](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-look-at-wind-in-the-willows/) - With a musical version opening in London, David Stuart Davies takes a look at this perennially popular children's classic. Poop-Poop!
- [Jack the Ripper - The Media Star](https://wordsworth-editions.com/jack-the-ripper-part-two/) - In the second part of his article, David Stuart Davies looks at the fictional re-tellings of his grisly deeds.
- [David Stuart Davies revisits A Christmas Carol](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-christmas-carol-2017/) - When it comes to classic Christmas Literature, this tops the list. David Stuart Davies revisits one of his favourite books.
- [World’s Greatest Love Story?](https://wordsworth-editions.com/worlds-greatest-love-story/) - Stefania Ciocia writes on 'Little Women' on the Big Screen Part 2
- [Peter Lancaster on the many faces of Scrooge](https://wordsworth-editions.com/god-bless-us-most-of-us-scrooge/) - Parker Lancaster looks at the many faces of Scrooge through the years.
- [Jane Austen and Naval Warfare](https://wordsworth-editions.com/jane-austen-and-naval-warfare/) - David Ellis delves into the nautical background to 'Persuasion'
- [“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”](https://wordsworth-editions.com/bah-humbug/) - Parker Lancaster presents The Christmas Curmudgeon’s Guide to the Three Least Heartwarming Versions of A Christmas Carol
- [David Stuart Davies on Ghost stories at Christmas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/ho-ho-ho-boo/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the tradition of ghost stories at Christmas.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Les Misérables](https://wordsworth-editions.com/les-miserables/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the novel behind the new BBC adaptation [This article contains references to the novel which you may wish to avoid if you are watching the story for the first time].
- [No snakes were harmed in the making of this play](https://wordsworth-editions.com/no-snakes-were-harmed/) - Sally Minogue and Stefania Ciocia puzzle over their disappointment with an acclaimed production of Antony and Cleopatra.
- [Sally Minogue considers Little Dorrit](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sally-minogue-considers-little-dorrit/) - Sally Minogue considers Little Dorrit in the light of a ‘radical’ adaptation on BBC Radio 4
- [David Ellis on Lost Masterpieces](https://wordsworth-editions.com/ellis-lost-masterpieces/) - David Ellis looks at the literary ones that got away
- [Feminist Shakespeare?](https://wordsworth-editions.com/feminist-shakespeare/) - Professor Cedric Watts looks at the many strong female characters found in Shakespeare's works.
- [Sally Minogue looks at Les Misérables](https://wordsworth-editions.com/les-miserables-review/) - Sally Minogue looks at Victor Hugo’s novel and Andrew Davies’ adaptation for BBC Television
- [The Newgate Controversy Part One](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-newgate-controversy-part-one/) - Stephen Carver looks at the events that threatened the reputation of the young Charles Dickens
- [Sally Minogue looks at John Keats](https://wordsworth-editions.com/john-keats-2/) - John Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ recently won Twitter’s Poetry Society Classic Poem World Cup: Sally Minogue tells us why.
- [The Newgate Controversy Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-newgate-controversy-part-two/) - In the conclusion of his article, Stephen Carver recounts how Dickens overcame his critics, notably Thackeray, to achieve lasting fame as a champion of the poor and vulnerable.
- [David Stuart Davies goes off in search of Moby Dick, the great white whale.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/moby-dick/) - David Stuart Davies goes off in search of the great white whale.
- [Shakespeare's Muddles](https://wordsworth-editions.com/shakespeares-muddles/) - The Bard Embraces Impossibilities - Cedric Watts explains.
- [Gained in translation](https://wordsworth-editions.com/gained-in-translation/) - Tom Griffith considers the merits of a classic translation for a classic text.
- [Sally Minogue looks at The Mill on the Floss](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-mill-on-the-floss/) - ‘In their death they were not divided’: Sally Minogue takes a look at 'The Mill on the Floss' in the bicentenary year of George Eliot’s birth.
- [Sally Minogue on stereotypes and prejudice in Classic Literature](https://wordsworth-editions.com/stereotypes-prejudice-classic-lit/) - Sally Minogue considers how we should look at historical stereotyping and prejudice in classic literature.
- [Stefania Ciocia watches A Midsummer Night's Dream](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-midsummer-nights-dream/) - Stefania Ciocia Goes Away with the Fairies at The Bridge Theatre
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Crime and Punishment](https://wordsworth-editions.com/crime-and-punishment/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the first, and perhaps the finest, of Dostoevsky's great novels.
- [Mia Forbes looks at The House of Mirth](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-house-of-mirth/) - Mia Forbes looks at Edith Wharton's mercilessly frank view of 19th-century New York society.
- [Sanditon: An adaptation for our times](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sanditon-reviewed/) - An adaptation for our times
- [Anton Chekhov: The Short Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/chekhov-short-stories/) - David Stuart Davies takes a look at a Russian master of the short story.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The War of the Worlds](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-war-of-the-worlds/) - David Stuart Davies looks at H.G. Wells popular and influential Victorian Sci-Fi novel.
- [George Eliot turns 200](https://wordsworth-editions.com/george-eliot-200/) - It’s George Eliot’s and Marian Evans’ 200th birthday! Sally Minogue celebrates with a closer look at her greatest novel, 'Middlemarch'.
- [Stephen Carver looks at Henry Mayhew](https://wordsworth-editions.com/henry-mayhew-1/) - THE REAL HENRY MAYHEW PART ONE: Traveller in the Poor Man’s Country.
- [The War of the Worlds - reviewed](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-war-of-the-worlds-2/) - The BBC series has received mixed reviews. David Stuart Davies gives his thoughts on the merits of the new adaptation.
- [Stephen Carver take a look at Henry Mayhew](https://wordsworth-editions.com/henry-mayhew-2/) - THE REAL HENRY MAYHEW PART TWO: London Labour and the London Poor.
- ['Twas the Night before Christmas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/twas-the-night-before-christmas/) - David Stuart Davies looks at this collection of classic festive tales for children
- [Stephen Carver looks at M.R. James at Christmas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/m-r-james-christmas/) - ‘If I’m not very careful, something of this kind may happen to me!’ M.R. James on Writing the Perfect Christmas Ghost Story
- [Dickens’ Other Christmas Books](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dickens-other-xmas-stories/) - Goblin Stories and Haunted Men: Stephen Carver looks at Dickens’ Other Christmas Books
- [Stephen Carver reviews A Christmas Carol](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-christmas-carol-2019/) - The new BBC adaptation concluded last night - Stephen Carver reviews it for us.
- [Sally Minogue takes us back to Dracula, the novel.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dracula/) - As a new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula' hits both BBC One and Netflix, Sally Minogue takes us back to the original novel.
- [Interpretations of Dracula](https://wordsworth-editions.com/interpretations-of-dracula/) - David Stuart Davies looks back at the many attempts to portray the best-known vampire of them all.
- ['Dracula' reviewed](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dracula-reviewed/) - A Dracula that feels the pulse of the 21st century? Sally Minogue considers the BBC One adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel.
- [The Personal History of David Copperfield](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-personal-history-of-david-copperfield/) - As Armando Iannucci’s new film hits the screens, Sally Minogue celebrates its Dickensian exuberance.
- [David Copperfield - The Novel](https://wordsworth-editions.com/david-copperfield-the-novel/) - David Copperfield was Charles Dickens’ ‘favourite child’: Sally Minogue considers the complications of a deeply autobiographical novel.
- [A Life Story rather than a Love Story](https://wordsworth-editions.com/jane-eyre-a-life-story-rather-than-a-love-story/) - Sally Minogue reviews the National Theatre’s touring production of 'Jane Eyre'
- [Spinoza: America’s Founding Grandfather](https://wordsworth-editions.com/spinoza-americas-founding-grandfather/) - American born Parker Lancaster delves into the depths of what the notion of freedom and Independence Day truly stands for and how he will be taking a page out of Spinoza's book this year...(excuse the pun).
- [‘… the huge jaws seemed to be dripping with a bluish flame…’](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-huge-jaws-seemed-to-be-dripping-with-a-bluish-flame/) - David Stuart Davies tells how reading 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' made him a lifetime devotee of the master detective.
- [1967 - The Summer Of Love](https://wordsworth-editions.com/1967-2/) - We have a nostalgic wallow in the events of fifty years ago
- [H. G. Wells and the Natural World](https://wordsworth-editions.com/h-g-wells-and-the-natural-world/) - Emily Alder looks at the his early scientific romances and the mastery of nature
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Rob Roy](https://wordsworth-editions.com/rob-roy/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the most popular of Sir Walter Scott's novels
- [Sally Minogue looks at Far From The Madding Crowd](https://wordsworth-editions.com/far-from-the-madding-crowd/) - Sally Minogue sets the BBC premier of the 2015 film adaptation alongside its 1967 predecessor.
- [Jane Austen and the great outdoors](https://wordsworth-editions.com/jane-austen-accidents/) - Sally Minogue considers the risks Austen’s heroines take when they venture outside.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Great Gatsby](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-great-gatsby/) - David Stuart Davies looks at what many consider to be the greatest American novel of the 20th Century
- [Sally Minogue looks at Walt Whitman](https://wordsworth-editions.com/walt-whitman-2/) - On National Poetry Day, Sally Minogue looks at Presidents, Poetry, and Walt Whitman.
- [Cedric Watts looks at Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing](https://wordsworth-editions.com/shakespeare-much-ado-about-nothing/) - Cedric Watts restores a lost character to Shakespeare's most often performed comedy.
- [Great Expositions](https://wordsworth-editions.com/great-expositions/) - 'So let me get this straight...' Guest blogger NUTS4R2 looks at the essential role of the companion in literature.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Picture of Dorian Gray](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-picture-of-dorian-gray/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Oscar Wilde's only novel.
- [Henry James and Lamb House](https://wordsworth-editions.com/henry-james-and-lamb-house/) - A House of Fiction: Sally Minogue visits Henry James’s English residence
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Nicholas Nickleby](https://wordsworth-editions.com/nicholas-nickleby/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Charles Dickens's third novel
- [Three Evil Minds and Two Evil Eyes](https://wordsworth-editions.com/three-evil-minds-and-two-evil-eyes/) - It's nearly Halloween, which makes it the perfect time for Parker Lancaster to look at the film adaptations of that master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe.
- [A Crescent Still Abides](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-crescent-still-abides/) - Stefania Ciocia reflects on grief, and Emily Dickinson, on All Souls’ Day
- [Sally Minogue reflects on Remembrance](https://wordsworth-editions.com/remembrance/) - Sally Minogue reflects on remembrance and Remembrance, with reference to the post First World War fiction of Ford Madox Ford and Virginia Woolf.
- [Jack the Ripper - The Killer and His Crimes](https://wordsworth-editions.com/jack-the-ripper-part-one/) - It was in November 1888 that the final grisly murder took place attributed to 'The Whitechapel Murderer', now commonly known as 'Jack the Ripper'. In the Part One of a two-part article, David Stuart Davies looks at the history behind this notorious killer.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Gulliver's Travels](https://wordsworth-editions.com/gullivers-travels-blog/) - On the 350th Anniversary of his birth, David Stuart Davies looks at Jonathan Swift's most popular novel.
- [Stefania Ciocia looks at Pinocchio](https://wordsworth-editions.com/pinocchio-part-one/) - Crossing boundaries with Pinocchio: Stefania Ciocia meanders through matters of language, culture, genre and authorship with the world’s most famous puppet
- [Brontë 200](https://wordsworth-editions.com/bronte-200/) - As we mark the bicentenary of Emily Brontë’s birth, Sally Minogue sets her work in its cultural context – and in the social media world of 2018.
- [Pinocchio on Stage and Screen](https://wordsworth-editions.com/pinocchio-part-two/) - Knocking Pinocchio into shape, or how to domesticate an unruly puppet: Stefania Ciocia on the drive towards narrative, moral and familial tidiness in Collodi’s text and its adaptations
- [Looking The Part: David Ellis casts an eye over our authors.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/looking-the-part-our-authors/) - From a hot young poet to a playwright said to look `like a self-satisfied pork butcher’: David Ellis casts an eye over our authors.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Forsyte Saga](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-forsyte-saga/) - David Stuart Davies looks at John Galsworthy's classic novels that make up 'The Forsyte Saga'
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Thirty-Nine Steps](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-thirty-nine-steps/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the first modern spy thriller.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Vanity Fair](https://wordsworth-editions.com/vanity-fair/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the latest TV adaptation of Thackeray's classic novel. [Warning: Contains references to events within the book]
- [Sally Minogue looks at Vanity Fair](https://wordsworth-editions.com/vanity-fair-2/) - Sally Minogue looks at the book behind the current ITV series
- [Othello at The Globe](https://wordsworth-editions.com/othello/) - Stefania Ciocia reflects on the extreme contrasts in Claire van Kampen’s production
- [Stefania Ciocia looks at The Winter's Tale](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-winters-tale/) - Stefania Ciocia salutes the strong women in Blanche McIntyre’s production for the Globe.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at North and South](https://wordsworth-editions.com/north-and-south/) - David Stuart Davies reflects on a novel with a theme familiar in our time - the divide between North and South
- [Vanity Fair - The Finale](https://wordsworth-editions.com/vanity-fair-3/) - As the adaptation of Vanity Fair comes to a close, Sally Minogue reflects on the satisfaction of a well-constructed narrative
- [Wordsworth Collector's Editions](https://wordsworth-editions.com/wordsworth-collectors-editions/) - Read about our latest series for people that love beautiful books
- [David Stuart Davies looks at one of Dickens' most popular novels](https://wordsworth-editions.com/oliver-twist/) - David Stuart Davies looks at one of Dickens' most popular novels
- [Sally Minogue looks at the poet, Wilfred Owen](https://wordsworth-editions.com/wilfred-owen-poetry-blog/) - Parker Lancaster looks at H.P. Lovecraft’s 13 Most Sinister Creations*
- [Stephen Carver writes on Kipling and the Great War](https://wordsworth-editions.com/kipling-and-the-great-war/) - Stephen Carver writes on Kipling and the Great War
- [Kidnapped & Catriona](https://wordsworth-editions.com/kidnapped-catriona/) - David Stuart looks at two of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Scottish tales.
- [Bad Shakespeare](https://wordsworth-editions.com/bad-shakespeare/) - From fuelling witch-hunts to buttering up the ruling classes - Cedric Watts looks at Shakespeare's less admirable side.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Candide](https://wordsworth-editions.com/candide/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the best-known work of the prolific French novelist Voltaire.
- [Alcott's 'Little Women' on the big screen](https://wordsworth-editions.com/little-women-on-the-big-screen/) - Stefania Ciocia goes on the hunt for the next best thing to reading Alcott’s novel
- [O. Henry](https://wordsworth-editions.com/o-henry/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the work of an American master of the short story
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Portrait of a Lady](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/) - David Stuart Davies looks at what many consider to be Henry James' finest work.
- [Stefania Ciocia looks at 'The Overcoat'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dazzled-by-indeterminacy-the-overcoat/) - Stefania Ciocia steps out of her comfort zone wearing Gogol’s ‘The Overcoat’
- [Cedric Watts writes about Sceptical Shakespeare](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sceptical-shakespeare/) - Cedric Watts examines Shakespeare's religious beliefs.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at To The Lighthouse](https://wordsworth-editions.com/to-the-lighthouse/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Three Men In A Boat](https://wordsworth-editions.com/three-men-in-a-boat/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Jerome K. Jerome's classic comic tale
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Heart of Darkness](https://wordsworth-editions.com/heart-of-darkness/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Joseph Conrad's controversial novella.
- [David Stuart Davies explores The Lost World](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-lost-world/) - David Stuart Davies explores Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's world of prehistoric beasts.
- [Stefania Ciocia looks at Decameron](https://wordsworth-editions.com/decameron/) - Of Fortune, Falls and Falcons: Stefania Ciocia has Fun with Boccaccio’s Decameron
- [Bloomsday](https://wordsworth-editions.com/bloomsday/) - On Bloomsday, Sally Minogue looks at the life of Dublin and beyond through Dubliners’ eyes.
- [Mia Forbes looks at The Iliad](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-iliad/) - Mia Forbes looks at the epic ancient Greek poem set in the Trojan War.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Age of Innocence](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-age-of-innocence/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
- [Mia Forbes looks at The Odyssey](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-odyssey/) - Time in the Odyssey - Mia Forbes looks at the second epic ancient Greek poem attributed to Homer
- [Primo Levi and Dante's 'Inferno'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dante-inferno/) - Il Canto di Ulisse: Primo Levi’s 'If This is a Man' and Dante’s 'Inferno'
- [Herman Melville 200](https://wordsworth-editions.com/herman-melville-200/) - Melville and His Age: Henry Claridge looks at the life of the great American author.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Guy de Maupassant](https://wordsworth-editions.com/guy-de-maupassant/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the life and work of the French master of the short story.
- [Sally Minogue looks at Jude the Obscure](https://wordsworth-editions.com/jude-the-obscure/) - ‘I have understanding as well as you’: Sally Minogue looks at the way Thomas Hardy’s 'Jude the Obscure' still has resonance in the 21st century.
- [Mia Forbes looks at Kim](https://wordsworth-editions.com/kim/) - Mia Forbes looks at Rudyard Kipling's tale of a child growing up in India against the backdrop of 'The Great Game', the political conflict between Britain and Russia.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Last Man](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-last-man/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Mary Shelley's 'crucial early work of post-apocalyptic science fiction'.
- [Sally Minogue assesses Sanditon](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sanditon/) - ‘A little higher up, the Modern began’: Sally Minogue assesses Jane Austen’s unfinished final novel 'Sanditon', a venture into a new world.
- [Sally Minogue watches The Little Prince](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-little-prince-on-stage/) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 'The Little Prince' has been given a ‘radical Afrofuturistic’ theatrical makeover by writer of the moment, Inua Ellams. Sally Minogue went to see it.
- [David Stuart Davies: The Call of the Wild](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-call-of-the-wild/) - With the release of a new film adaptation, David Stuart Davies looks at this ever-popular classic.
- [Stefania Ciocia looks at Little Women](https://wordsworth-editions.com/little-women-film-review/) - Striding with Confidence into the Future: Stefania Ciocia reviews Greta Gerwig’s Little Women
- [William Wordsworth 250](https://wordsworth-editions.com/william-wordsworth-250/) - ‘Trailing clouds of glory do we come’: Sally Minogue salutes William Wordsworth on his 250th birthday.
- [Shakespeare's Sonnets](https://wordsworth-editions.com/shakespeare-sonnets/) - ‘Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme’: Sally Minogue looks at the appeal of Shakespeare’s Sonnets at a time of lockdown.
- [Bloomsday 2020](https://wordsworth-editions.com/bloomsday-2020/) - On Bloomsday, Sally Minogue celebrates James Joyce’s 'Ulysses'.
- [The Other Brontë Sister](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/) - Steve Carver looks at 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall', Anne Brontë's second, and final, novel
- [Andrew Palmer looks at Animal Farm](https://wordsworth-editions.com/animal-farm/) - Andrew Palmer considers whether George Orwell's allegorical tale of the Russian revolution may have had an unexpected influence.
- ['It's a Sin'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/its-a-sin/) - As 'It’s a Sin' comes to the end of its run on Channel 4, and we celebrate LGBTQ+ History month, Sally Minogue looks at the sometimes hidden history of diverse sexualities in literature.
- [The Nobel Prize in Literature](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-nobel-prize-in-literature/) - As the Committee of the Swedish Academy put the Nobel Prizes for 2021 behind them and begin to consider the nominations for 2022, Sally Minogue looks at some of the past winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- [Empire](https://wordsworth-editions.com/empire/) - ‘I shall try to fly by those nets’: Sally Minogue offers a final reflection on literature and Empire. If we needed a reminder of the ability of the British to erase the blood-steeped events of our imperialist history, look no further than the late Queen’s funeral. Charlotte Higgins, writing for The Guardian (online September 19),
- [Sally Minogue looks at Emily](https://wordsworth-editions.com/emily/) - Emily, a film loosely based on Emily Brontë’s life, has hit the screens. Sally Minogue finds herself at odds with the rave reviews. As soon as I had seen the film Emily, I knew what the first sentence of this blog was going to be: ‘Emily is pure codswallop’. But me no buts. But …
- [The supernatural fiction of Edith Wharton](https://wordsworth-editions.com/blog-edith-wharton-ghost-stories/) - Steve Carver discovers the supernatural fiction of Pulitzer Prize-winning author. The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts is the house that Edith Wharton built. She designed it as an elegant retreat from New York society in which she could write and her mentally ill husband, Teddy, could hopefully find some peace. The couple lived within its white
- [Wuthering Heights: Emma Rice's production reviewed](https://wordsworth-editions.com/stefania-ciocia/) - Holding fast with Emma Rice’s Wuthering Heights: Stefania Ciocia embraces the power of Nature and of artistic adventures. I remember the first time I read Wuthering Heights. I remember it for all the wrong reasons. I was still in high-school, and the long summer holidays afforded me ample time to read. With classes over from
- [Try a Little Tenderness: Lady Chatterley's Lover](https://wordsworth-editions.com/try-a-little-tenderness/) - ‘Try a Little Tenderness’: as Lady Chatterley’s Lover comes to Netflix, Sally Minogue looks at both novel and adaptation. I always labour at the same thing, to make the sex relation valid and precious, instead of shameful. And this novel is the furthest I’ve gone. To me it is beautiful and tender and frail as
- [Filming Great Expectations: Part 1](https://wordsworth-editions.com/filming-great-expectations-part-one/) - Part One: ‘We made everything larger than life…’ This year, the arrival of spring will be accompanied by what promises from the trailer to be a radical reimagining of Dicken’s immortal coming of age story Great Expectations, written by Peaky Blinders creator Stephen Knight. This will be Knight’s second Dickens screenplay, following A Christmas Carol
- [Filming Great Expectations: Part 2](https://wordsworth-editions.com/filming-great-expectations-pt2/) - PART TWO: ‘As being calc’lated to lead to larks!’ It was inevitable that Great Expectations would eventually find its way to television, which it first did in a heavily truncated version performed live over two episodes of the NBC dramatic showcase series Robert Montgomery Presents in 1954. This was a prestige show for its time,
- [Sally Minogue looks at Under Milk Wood](https://wordsworth-editions.com/under-milk-wood-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-dog/) - As Wordsworth prepares to publish Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog in January 2024, Sally Minogue gives us a foretaste of the pleasures they will afford for readers. Seventy years ago this November, Dylan Thomas died a deeply distressing and horribly early death in a New York
- [‘Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea’](https://wordsworth-editions.com/time-held-me-green-and-dying/) - As we publish Dylan Thomas’s Collected Poems 1934-1952, Sally Minogue reflects on the riches to be found there. Most of you reading this blog will already know lines from or titles of some of Dylan Thomas’s poems. In the majority of his poems, the title is simply the first line of the poem, and he
- [‘Moments before the Great Corruption’ – Great Expectations](https://wordsworth-editions.com/moments-before-the-great-corruption/) - ‘Moments before the Great Corruption’ – Great Expectations Episode One Review After all the hype, the interviews, and the extended trailer, I must confess I was expecting more from last night’s pilot episode of Steven Knight’s new adaptation of Great Expectations. This is, after all, ‘The Dickens tale as you’ve never seen it before’ according
- [Sumer is icumen in – finally.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sumer-is-icumen-in-finally/) - Sally Minogue reflects on evocations of Summer by some Wordsworth authors. ‘Sumer is icumen in –/ Lhude sing! cuccu.’ Not by one of Wordsworth’s authors, but by one of that large and motley crew, Anon., this early 13th century lyric is still widely recognized because it was set to music and is still sung today.
- [Great Expectations: reduced imaginations](https://wordsworth-editions.com/great-expectations-reduced-imaginations/) - Sally Minogue and Stephen Carver give a final overview of the BBC One adaptation of Dickens’s novel. The first episode of Steven Knight’s adaptation of Great Expectations was a pleasant surprise to both Stephen Carver and me. Stephen will speak in the later part of this blog; but for both of us, I think, this
- [Celebrating Pride](https://wordsworth-editions.com/celebrating-pride/) - In Pride month, Sally Minogue reminds us of a time when writers couldn’t easily be out and proud. A couple of weeks ago I was wandering through the cool paths of the Cimitero Acattolico – the Protestant Cemetery – in Rome, with fellow-blogger and friend Stefania Ciocia as my companion and guide. It was our
- [Orwell and Women](https://wordsworth-editions.com/orwell-and-women/) - As new biographies revisit George Orwell’s standing and attitudes, Sally Minogue considers Orwell and Women George Orwell’s reputation both as man and as writer has been placed under re-examination of late. New biographies of both him and of his first wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy have re-evaluated his standing, and I have just finished listening to this
- [Listening for the leaden circles dissolving in the air](https://wordsworth-editions.com/hours-dalloway-listening-for-the-leaden-circles-dissolving-in-the-air/) - Stefania Ciocia finds new harmonies in The Hours and Mrs Dalloway “In a play, if more than one person speaks at the same time, it’s just noise. No one can understand a word. But with music, with music you can have twenty individuals all talking at once, and it’s not noise – it’s a perfect
- [The Fall of the House of Usher](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher/) - In the summer of 1960, American International Pictures released a little gothic number called The Fall of the House of Usher based on the strange and phantasmagoric short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine in 1839. AIP was a low-budget, independent outfit that banged out cheap
- [The Life and Works of Dylan Thomas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/life_and_works_of_dylan_thomas/) - As Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog are published by Wordsworth, Sally Minogue fills in the background. Dylan Thomas’s best-known and best-loved work, Under Milk Wood, is the principal text in this volume. Dylan Thomas’s self-styled ‘play for voices’ is the last mature work to come from
- [Filming 'A Christmas Carol'.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/filming-a-christmas-carol/) - Stephen Carver takes a seasonal look at the many, many adaptations of Charles Dickens' Christmas classic. Like James Bond and Doctor Who, everyone has their favourite version of Ebenezer Scrooge, the actor that defines the role for them, probably from whatever version of A Christmas Carol they first saw as a kid. I have seen
- [A Blog for Burns Night](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-blog-for-burns-night/) - Mia Rocquemore has a timely look the poetry of Robert Burns. in a A Blog for Burns Night Guests at a traditional Burns Night supper are greeted by the blare of the bagpipe, its fierce notes unmistakable and unignorable. It would be hard to conceive of a more suitable opening for a celebration of Scotland's
- [The Subtle Chiller](https://wordsworth-editions.com/henry-james/) - An appreciation of Henry James by David Stuart Davies
- [Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone: A cornerstone in the development of crime fiction](https://wordsworth-editions.com/wilkie-collins-the-moonstone-a-cornerstone-in-the-development-of-crime-fiction/) - David Stuart Davies looks at ‘The first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels'.
- [Wilkie Collins 'The Moonstone' - we review the BBC production](https://wordsworth-editions.com/wilkie-collins-the-moonstone-we-review-the-bbc-production/) - Wilkie Collins’ classic mystery novel 'The Moonstone', concerning the theft of a precious Indian jewel, has always been a popular choice with dramatists. David Stuart Davies reviews the latest adaptation.
- [Vengeance in Anna Karenina](https://wordsworth-editions.com/anna-karenina/) - Mia Forbes considers the central theme in Tolstoy's novel, considered by many to be one of the finest ever written.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Idiot](https://wordsworth-editions.com/david-stuart-davies-looks-at-the-idiot/) - 'The Idiot' was the third of Dostevesky's classic novels. David Stuart Davies takes up the story. ‘The Idiot anticipates not just the concerns of twentieth century existentialist thought but heralds our modern age in general.’ Agnes Cardinal The Idiot (1869 ) is one of a trio of great Russian novels penned by Fyodor Dostoevsky which
- [‘Avay vith melincholly’: The Story Behind 'The Pickwick Papers'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/avay-vith-melincholly-the-story-behind-the-pickwick-papers/) - Stephen Carver rediscovers the pleasures of reading Dickens' first novel. The Pickwick Papers Dickens had only just celebrated his 24th birthday when the publisher Willian Hall paid a call on him at his lodgings in Furnival’s Inn to offer him a writing contract. It was early February, 1836, and Dickens’ collected Sketches by ‘Boz’ had
- [Book of the Week: The Brothers Karamazov](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-of-the-week-the-brothers-karamazov/) - After an insomniac encounter with a radio adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov, Sally Minogue revisits Fyodor Dostoevsky’s last novel. I’ve always had trouble sleeping; it’s part of my life. I used to listen to the World Service which gave a non-Anglocentric corrective to the standard news, but eventually the reporting of everyday horrors there became
- [Elizabeth Gaskell and 'Wives and Daughters'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/elizabeth-gaskell-and-wives-and-daughters/) - Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at Elizabeth Gaskell's final novel Elizabeth Gaskell died in 1865 leaving behind a wide range of works – novels, novellas, short stories, poetry and non-fiction. Her final novel, Wives and Daughters lay unfinished, just shy of the final chapter or so. There is some common ground here between Elizabeth Gaskell and
- [The Japanese Macbeth](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-japanese-macbeth/) - Dr Stephen Carver looks at one of the most memorable adaptations of Macbeth, Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 film Kumonosu-jō, best known as Throne of Blood. The Japanese Macbeth Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s shortest tragedies, over a thousand lines fewer than both King Lear and Othello, and about half the size of Hamlet. Some literary historians go as far as to argue, in fact, that we
- [Book of the Week: Pride and Prejudice](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-of-the-week-pride-and-prejudice/) - When I first read Pride and Prejudice as a moody fourteen-year-old, I was far from impressed. I had little interest in the characters, even less enthusiasm for the society in which they lived, and as for the preoccupation with marriage, well that just left me cold. Some of you dear readers may gasp in horror
- [When Poe Met Dickens](https://wordsworth-editions.com/when-poe-met-dickens/) - In the United States, one of the first – if not the first – critics to discover the talented new British author Charles Dickens was Edgar Allan Poe. Poe reviewed Dickens’ first book, Sketches by ‘Boz’ in the June 1836 number of the Southern Literary Messenger, the year it was published in London by John
- [King Henry V](https://wordsworth-editions.com/king_henry_v/) - We Happy Few’: Agincourt, History, and National Myth: King Henry V Few stories ignite the British sense of national pride and identity quite as much as those when a small but valiant force hold their ground against a much bigger enemy. This is what the Battle of Britain was all about, the Battle of Rorke’s
- [Book of the Week: The Scarlet Letter](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-of-the-week-the-scarlet-letter/) - The Scarlet Letter: Mia Rocquemore looks at Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in the mid-1700s A novel that combines spectacle with secret, the supernatural with bitter reality, and editorial authority with subjective narration, Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter demands a psychological reading. Its characters are so complex, their motivations and
- [The Moonstone: The first modern detective story](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-moonstone-the-first-modern-detective-story/) - It is not widely known nowadays that T.S. Eliot had a passion for detective stories. He held Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie in particularly high regard, and kept up with the evolving contemporary genre, frequently reviewing new tales of mystery and detection in The Criterion, the literary magazine he both created and edited.
- [Book of the Week: The Woman in White](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-of-the-week-the-woman-in-white/) - In the first of two blogs on Wilkie Collins, Stephen Carver looks at the novel the author considered to be his greatest achievement. The Woman in White Much as letters were carefully preserved in the 19th century, it was the custom of the children of eminent Victorians to dutifully produce a biography of their departed parent.
- [Gothic Short Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/gothic-short-stories/) - David Stuart Davies looks at our collection of chilling tales from a genre now in its fourth century.
- [Exploring Crusoe's Adventures](https://wordsworth-editions.com/robinson-crusoe/) - The Only Man on the Island or What did Crusoe do with Friday on Saturday Night?
- [W.B. Yeats and the Nobel Prize](https://wordsworth-editions.com/w-b-yeats-and-the-nobel-prize/) - This week marks the centenary of W. B. Yeats being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature – the first Irishman to be granted that honour. Sally Minogue looks at Yeats’s achievement and suggests some of his poems to enjoy. W.B. Yeats was 58 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature – a good
- [Mia Rocquemore looks at the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson](https://wordsworth-editions.com/mia-rocquemore-looks-at-the-works-of-alfred-lord-tennyson/) - “It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles” Many of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s most beloved poems are set on the water. In Crossing the Bar, the eighty-year-old poet, writing as he passed over the Solent to the Isle of Wight, hopes that his own
- [Stephen Carver looks at Lady Audley's Secret](https://wordsworth-editions.com/blog-lady-audleys-secret/) - Stephen Carver looks at Mary Elizabeth Braddon's classic example of Victorian 'Sensation Fiction', which helped create the template for modern crime fiction.
- [Shakespeare's Titles](https://wordsworth-editions.com/shakespeares-titles/) - David Ellis finds fault with 'The Swan of Avon' Shakespeare's Titles As anyone who has ever put pen to paper will know, finding titles for what you have written can be difficult. Reading a book on Shakespeare’s treatment of old age I was struck recently by the felicity of its title. The author had taken
- [Nicola Bradbury looks at Dombey and Son](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dombey-and-son/) - To coincide with the screening of 'Dickensian', guest writers select their favourite Dickens' novel. Nicola Bradbury starts us off with 'Dombey and Son'.
- [The Spirits of Charles Dickens](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dickens-ghost-stories/) - David Stuart Davies strikes a Christmas chill with a look at the ghost stories of Charles Dickens.
- [Lionel Kelly looks at Bleak House](https://wordsworth-editions.com/bleak-house/) - Continuing our focus on classic Dickens novels, Lionel Kelly looks at 'Bleak House'.
- [Sherlaugh Holmes or Amusing, My Dear Watson](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sherlock-for-laughs/) - David Stuart Davies look at the humour in Conan Doyle's classic tales.
- [Sally Minogue looks at Great Expectations](https://wordsworth-editions.com/great-expectations/) - Continuing our 'Dickensian' theme, Sally Minogue looks at one of the author's most popular works.
- [Dickensian - We review the BBC's series so far](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dickensian/) - Sally Minogue reflects on the television series so far.
- [Keith Carrabine looks at Little Dorrit](https://wordsworth-editions.com/little-dorrit/) - Continuing our 'Dickensian' series, Keith Carabine looks at 'Humbug' in 'Little Dorrit'
- [Portrait of the Artist as a Young Reader](https://wordsworth-editions.com/david-copperfield/) - Stefania Ciocia looks at 'David Copperfield, Dickens' 'favourite child'.
- [War and Peace - The Epilogue](https://wordsworth-editions.com/war-and-peace-looking-back/) - As the fog of war clears from this lavish adaptation, Henry Claridge assesses its success
- [A Tale of Two Cities - 'It was the best of tales...'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-tale-of-two-cities/) - As 'Dickensian' nears its end, David Stuart Davies is the last of our guest writers to look at their favourite Dickens work.
- [Dickensian - The Finale](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dickensian-the-finale/) - Sally Minogue reflects on the series as it comes to an end
- [The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/) - David Stuart Davies looks at a title that has been one our best sellers over the last year.
- [Virginia Woolf: January 25th 1882 - March 28th 1941](https://wordsworth-editions.com/virginia-woolf-1941/) - Sally Minogue considers the mental illness that had such an impact on the author's life and work.
- [Shakespeare: Still Relevant?](https://wordsworth-editions.com/shakespeare-still-relevant/) - To start our commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Cedric Watts considers the playwright's place in our cultural heritage.
- [Charlotte Brontë turns 200](https://wordsworth-editions.com/charlotte-bronte-200/) - Sally Minogue revisits Haworth and reflects on the life and work of the author.
- [How Kipling's Jungle Book helped make the modern Disney](https://wordsworth-editions.com/how-rudyard-kiplings-the-jungle-book-helped-make-the-modern-disney-part-2/) - In the second part of his essay on how Rudyard Kipling and 'The Jungle Book' influenced the modern Disney, Parker Lancaster takes a look at anthropomorphism, CGI and the success of previous adaptations...
- [Discovering the pleasure of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure](https://wordsworth-editions.com/discovering-the-pleasure-of-shakespeares-measure-for-measure/) - Professor Cedric Watts examines one of the Bard's most accessible and, in hindsight, contemporary plays.
- [Cervantes - The Man of Madrid and Don Quixote](https://wordsworth-editions.com/cervantes-the-man-of-madrid-and-don-quixote/) - David Stuart Davies looks at a great comic novel that also functions as an historical one.
- [Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: A journey of laughter and tears](https://wordsworth-editions.com/shakespeares-twelfth-night-a-journey-of-laughter-and-tears/) - David Stuart Davies looks at this ever-popular comedy with a darker side.
- [Villette re-imagined.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/villette-reimagined-we-visit-the-west-yorkshire-playhouse-adaptation/) - 'As the play got into its stride', says Sally Minogue, 'I began to see that it was indeed true to the central spirit of Villette, and especially true to Lucy Snowe'.
- [A less than towering 'Inferno'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/inferno-looking-for-our-own-robert-langdon/) - Whatever the merits, or otherwise, of Tom Hanks’ latest outing as Robert Langdon in the film adaptation of Dan Brown’s 'Inferno', in our eyes it’s a winner.
- [‘You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.’](https://wordsworth-editions.com/you-cant-wait-for-inspiration-you-have-to-go-after-it-with-a-club-jack-london/) - On the centenary of Jack London's death, David Stuart Davies considers his life and work.
- [No slumming for Danny Dyer](https://wordsworth-editions.com/no-slumming-for-danny-dyer/) - We look at the current popularity for tracing your family history
- [Ford Madox Ford, Brexit and Trump](https://wordsworth-editions.com/ford-madox-ford-brexit-and-trump/) - On Ford's birthday, Sara Haslam considers how he might have viewed the momentous events of 2016
- [Stefania Ciocia reviews the National Theatre's Peter Pan](https://wordsworth-editions.com/theatrical-magic-and-thought-provoking-choices-in-sally-cooksons-peter-pan/) - Stefania Ciocia reviews the current National Theatre production
- [James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man-joyce/) - Sally Minogue salutes James Joyce’s ambitious first novel
- [‘All children, except one, grow up.’](https://wordsworth-editions.com/peter-pan/) - In Part One of a two-part article David Stuart Davies looks at the perennially popular story of 'Peter Pan'.
- [Eastwood in Nottinghamshire](https://wordsworth-editions.com/visiting-eastwood/) - David Ellis visits the birthplace of D.H. Lawrence
- [J. M. Barrie – The Father of Peter Pan](https://wordsworth-editions.com/j-m-barrie-the-father-of-peter-pan/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the author of one of the best-loved of children's books.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Father Brown](https://wordsworth-editions.com/father-brown/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the history of the ever-popular priest with a flair for detection.
- [Stefania Ciocia reviews A Quiet Passion](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-quiet-passion/) - A flawed labour of love: Terence Davies’s take on Emily Dickinson in 'A Quiet Passion' is reviewed by Stefania Ciocia
- [The Invisible Man: Out of Mind, Out of Sight](https://wordsworth-editions.com/out-of-mind-out-of-sight/) - Part One of Parker Lancaster's look at the film adaptations of H.G.Wells' 'The Invisible Man'.
- [The Invisible Man: The Hands Can't Hit What the Eyes Can't See](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-hands-cant-hit-what-the-eyes-cant-see/) - In the second part of his look at the film adaptations of 'The Invisible Man', Parker Lancaster reviews the sequels that followed James Whale's classic adaptation.
- [Stefania Ciocia muses over Little Women](https://wordsworth-editions.com/little-women/) - Little Women and the test of time: Stefania Ciocia muses on a childhood favourite
- [Cedric Watts recounts Shakespeare's Hamlet](https://wordsworth-editions.com/hamlet/) - Cedric Watts recounts his dealings with this most problematic of Shakespeare's plays.
- [Walt Whitman, we salute you.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/walt-whitman/) - ‘O camerado close!’: Sally Minogue salutes Walt Whitman on his birthday
- [Book of the Week: The Mystery of Edwin Drood](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-of-the-week-the-mystery-of-edwin-drood/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Charles Dickens's last, unfinished, novel The real mystery of Edwin Drood concerns his sudden disappearance, which raises the question of whether he is dead or alive, for no body is discovered. If dead, has he been murdered and if so, by whom? Sadly, Charles Dickens died before he was able
- [Jane Austen 200](https://wordsworth-editions.com/jane-austen-200/) - On the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, Sally Minogue pays tribute to her final novel, 'Persuasion'.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Madame Bovary](https://wordsworth-editions.com/madame-bovary-blog/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Flaubert's first, and best-known, novel.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Jungle Book](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-jungle-book/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Kipling's enduringly popular collection of stories.
- [Back to School with Anne of Avonlea](https://wordsworth-editions.com/back-to-school-with-anne-of-avonlea/) - Denise Hanrahan-Wells looks at Anne of Avonlea, the sequel to Anne of Green Gables. ‘Oh, will I ever learn to stop and reflect a little before doing reckless things? Mrs Lynde always told me I would do something dreadful someday, and now I’ve done it.’ Fans of the eponymous orphan Anne Shirley will have probably
- [‘What a lark! What a plunge!’ Sally Minogue looks at Mrs Dalloway](https://wordsworth-editions.com/mrs-dalloway-blog/) - Sally Minogue dives below the surface of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, published 94 years ago this month.
- [Walt Whitman turns 200](https://wordsworth-editions.com/walt-whitman-200/) - As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth, Sally Minogue looks at his enduring appeal to British audiences.
- [Sally Minogue looks at Daniel Deronda](https://wordsworth-editions.com/daniel-deronda/) - In the bicentenary year of George Eliot’s birth, Sally Minogue looks at her final and most controversial novel, Daniel Deronda.
- [Sally Minogue looks at The Good Soldier](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-good-soldier/) - The saddest story’? Sally Minogue examines the claims of Ford Madox Ford’s modernist masterpiece The Good Soldier on today’s reader..
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Dead Souls](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dead-souls/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Nikolai Gogol's comic masterpiece
- [David Ellis looks at The Pickwick Papers](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-pickwick-papers/) - David Ellis looks at Sam Weller, one of Dickens' earliest and most popular characters.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Emma](https://wordsworth-editions.com/emma/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Jane Austen's 'Emma', the latest classic to get a makeover on the big screen.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Invisible Man](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-invisible-man/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the original novel that inspired (albeit tenuously) a new film released today
- [The Rise of the Gothic Novel](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-rise-of-the-gothic-novel/) - 'It was a question of suspense versus horror'. Stephen Carver compares the works of the two giants English Gothic literature, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew 'Monk' Lewis.
- [Cedric Watts disagrees with W.B. Yeats](https://wordsworth-editions.com/w-b-yeats/) - Fallible Yeats: Cedric Watts has a disagreement with the great Irish poet
- [Sally Minogue look at The Waves](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-waves/) - ‘Now is life very solid, or very shifting?’ Sally Minogue considers Virginia Woolf’s 'The Waves'.
- [A Study in Scarlet / The Sign of the Four](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-study-in-scarlet-the-sign-of-the-four/) - In the first of a four-part series, David Stuart Davies begins with the novel that introduced the world's first consulting detective.
- [The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-adventures-and-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the classic early short stories first published in 'The Strand Magazine'.
- [Plato's 'Republic'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/plato-republic/) - Mia Forbes looks at The City in Plato’s 'Republic'
- [Pippa Stacey looks at The Secret Garden](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-secret-garden-2/) - A Tale Of Thriving In Times Of Isolation - Pippa Stacey looks at 'The Secret Garden'
- [Reading in lockdown](https://wordsworth-editions.com/reading-in-lockdown/) - Consolation or confrontation? Sally Minogue looks at a few options.
- [The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Return of Sherlock Holmes](https://wordsworth-editions.com/holmes-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-the-return/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the novel that suggested that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not quite finished with his most famous creation, and the collection of stories that confirmed it.
- [Looking for Kafka](https://wordsworth-editions.com/looking-for-kafka/) - Stephen Carver goes in search of an author who 'remains as enigmatic as his fiction'.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Valley of Fear / His Last Bow](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-valley-of-fear-his-last-bow/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the final Sherlock Holmes novel and the penultimate collection of stories.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The King in Yellow](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-king-in-yellow/) - David Stuart Davies looks at a book once described as ‘the most important volume in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns.’
- [The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-casebook-of-sherlock-holmes/) - David Stuart Davies concludes his look at the complete Sherlock Holmes tales with this final collection of short stories
- [Under the Tuscan sun with Romeo and Juliet](https://wordsworth-editions.com/under-the-tuscan-sun-with-romeo-and-juliet/) - In praise of serendipity: Stefania Ciocia’s chance encounter with Romeo and Juliet in the Tuscan countryside
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Scarlet Letter](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-scarlet-letter/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic American novel, a tale of sin, guilt and redemption set in Massachusetts in the mid-seventeenth Century
- [Stephen Carver looks at Northanger Abbey](https://wordsworth-editions.com/northanger-abbey/) - Stephen Carver looks at Jane Austen's first novel, which was also the last to be published
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Mapp & Lucia](https://wordsworth-editions.com/mapp-and-lucia/) - David Stuart Davies looks at E.F. Benson's much-loved comic creations
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Railway Children](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-railway-children/) - David Stuart Davies looks at this classic children's story that has become popular with all ages.
- [Stephen Carver looks at Mary Barton](https://wordsworth-editions.com/mary-barton/) - Stephen Carver looks at Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, on the plight of factory workers in the mills of Manchester in the 1840s
- [David Stuart Davies takes a look at Mark Twain](https://wordsworth-editions.com/mark-twain/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the man that William Faulkner described as 'The father of America Literature'
- [Lights, Camera, Sherlock: Part Four](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sherlock-on-the-screen-part-four/) - David Stuart Davies concludes his series with a look at the modern portrayals of the timeless sleuth.
- [Lights, Camera, Sherlock: Part Three](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sherlock-on-the-screen-part-three/) - In Part Three, David Stuart Davies looks at the work of Basil Rathbone and Peter Cushing.
- [Lights, Camera, Sherlock: Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sherlock-on-the-screen-part-two/) - David Stuart Davies continues his series on Holmes on stage and screen.
- [Stefania Ciocia looks at the 'Alice In Wonderland' books](https://wordsworth-editions.com/alice-2/) - Dr Stefania Ciocia looks at how adults and children interpret the Alice stories differently
- [The 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://wordsworth-editions.com/alice/) - Carroll’s “ideal child-friend” - Dr Stefania Ciocia writes on what our continuing fascination with Alice says about us.
- [Lights, Camera, Sherlock: Part One](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sherlock-on-the-screen-part-one/) - The history of the media career of the world’s most famous detective in four parts by David Stuart Davies
- [Lady Chatterley’s Lover: the expurgated version](https://wordsworth-editions.com/lady-chatterley-blog-4/) - Sally Minogue reviews last night's TV broadcast
- [Lady Chatterley - A Woman's View](https://wordsworth-editions.com/lady-chatterley-blog-3/) - Decried by feminist writers in the 1970s, D.H.Lawrence's status is reassessed by Sally Minogue.
- [Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or servants to read?](https://wordsworth-editions.com/lady-chatterley-blog-2/) - David Stuart Davies considers the history and impact of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
- [Lady Chatterley’s Lover: found innocent](https://wordsworth-editions.com/lady-chatterley-blog-1/) - In the first of a series of articles on this ever-controversial classic, Sally Minogue recalls her first encounter.
- [Vampire: Blood is the Life - Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-vampire-tale-second-bite/) - David Stuart Davies concludes in a similar vein.
- [Still unequal after all this time. Gaskell and Browning.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/gaskell-and-browning/) - Sally Minogue reflects on Elizabeth Gaskell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- [Sherdian LeFanu. A Deft Touch of the Macabre - Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sheridan-lefanu-part-two/) - The final part of David Stuart Davies' appreciation of Sheridan LeFanu
- [A Deft Touch of the Macabre - Part One](https://wordsworth-editions.com/sheridan-lefanu/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the work of a rather neglected master of his art, Sheridan LeFanu
- [Unsettling Dark Pleasures - Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/gothic-fiction-part-two/) - The conclusion of David Stuart Davies' history of Gothic fiction
- [Gore by Proxy: The Penny Dreadfuls. Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/penny-dreadful-part-two/) - The final part of David Stuart Davies' story of the rise and fall of the 'Penny Dreadful'.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Fathers and Sons](https://wordsworth-editions.com/fathers-and-sons-blog/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the major work by one of the greatest Russian authors. ‘We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.’ Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a novelist poet and playwright, and one of the greatest figures of Russian literature. His novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as
- [Sally Minogue looks at Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan Pier](https://wordsworth-editions.com/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london-the-road-to-wigan-pier/) - ‘At least I could go amongst these people, see what their lives were like’: Sally Minogue looks at George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier.
- [The 'Strand Magazine' - Part One](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-strand/) - David Stuart Davies reveals there was far more to 'Strand Magazine' than just Sherlock Holmes.
- [The Legacy of Sherlock Holmes - Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/legacy-of-sherlock-holmes-part-two/) - David Stuart Davies concludes his review of the detectives that followed Conan Doyle's iconic creation.
- [The Legacy of Sherlock Holmes - Part One](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-legacy-of-sherlock-holmes/) - David Stuart Davies looks at at the fictional detectives that followed in the footsteps of the most famous sleuth of them all.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at the work of Wilkie Collins](https://wordsworth-editions.com/wilkie-collins/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the work of Wilkie Collins - a pioneer of the detective story.
- ['Why I wept on first reading Conrad' - Part One](https://wordsworth-editions.com/joseph-conrad/) - Keith Carabine looks back to the origins of his life-long love of Joseph Conrad.
- [Never judge a book by its movie...](https://wordsworth-editions.com/never-judge-a-book-by-its-movie/) - Sally Minogue writes: Never judge a book by its movie...
- [The pleasures of reading F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://wordsworth-editions.com/f-scott-fitzgerald/) - Henry Claridge writes on the pleasures of reading F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- [Mia Forbes looks at King Lear](https://wordsworth-editions.com/king-lear/) - Morality, justice and Christianity in King Lear By Mia Forbes
- [Stephen Carver looks at Moll Flanders](https://wordsworth-editions.com/moll-flanders/) - 'Thus I gave up myself to a readiness of being ruined without the least concern, and am a fair Memento to all young Women, whose Vanity prevails over their Virtue.' Stephen Carver looks at Daniel Defoe's novel of the progress of a poor orphan girl in 17th century England.
- [Sally Minogue celebrates The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-ragged-trousered-philanthropists-2020/) - 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of Robert Tressell’s birth; Sally Minogue celebrates his iconic novel, 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'.
- [Black Beauty and Chronic Illness](https://wordsworth-editions.com/black-beauty/) - Pippa Stacey finds a connection with Anna Sewell's Children's Classic beyond the book itself.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Lorna Doone](https://wordsworth-editions.com/lorna-doone/) - David Stuart Davies looks at R.D. Blackmore's romantic West Country classic.
- [‘Based on the Writings of Henry James’](https://wordsworth-editions.com/based-on-the-writings-of-henry-james/) - The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents and The Haunting of Bly Manor: Stephen Carver takes up the story
- [The Gothic Life of Edgar Allan Poe](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-gothic-life-of-edgar-allan-poe/) - Stephen Carver looks at the life of probably the most innovative and influential figure in 19th century American literature.
- [Mr Orwell dramatised](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dramatising-mr-orwell-animal-farm/) - Part One: Animal Farm. David Stuart Davies looks at the various attempts to dramatise George Orwell's allegorical novella of Stalinist Russia.
- [A Strange Idolatry: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-strange-idolatory/) - Steve Carver looks at 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', Oscar Wilde's only novel.
- [Mr Orwell dramatised](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dramatising-mr-orwell-1984/) - Part Two: Nineteen Eighty-Four. David Stuart Davies looks at the many adaptations of Orwell's dystopian classic.
- [Chills at Christmas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/chills-at-christmas/) - A consideration of spooky tales for the festive season by David Stuart Davies
- [Sally Minogue introduces George Orwell](https://wordsworth-editions.com/george-orwell/) - In January 2021, we publish four seminal works by George Orwell: his fictions, 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', and his documentary writings, 'Down and Out in Paris and London', and 'The Road to Wigan Pier'. Sally Minogue offers some introductory remarks.
- [The Plays of Oscar Wilde](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-plays-of-oscar-wilde/) - 'The Importance of Being Earnest' and 'Lady Windermere's Fan' are the two most popular of a quartet of brilliant plays that established Oscar Wilde as one of the great British playwrights. David Stuart Davies takes up the story.
- [The Short Stories of Saki](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-short-stories-of-saki/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the work H. H. Munro, better known by his pen name of Saki, who is considered one of the great short story writers.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Way We Live Now](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-way-we-live-now/) - David Stuart Davies considers what many believe to be Anthony Trollope's greatest work.
- [The Personal is the Political: Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-personal-is-the-political/) - Sally Minogue reflects on the connection between the two in George Orwell’s 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.
- [D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rainbow'](https://wordsworth-editions.com/d-h-lawrences-the-rainbow/) - Like the later Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Rainbow was initially banned for obscenity on its publication in 1915, but for only a mere eleven years. Mia Rocquemore revisits this complex novel. D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow contains all the features of a Victorian story that so appeal to the critical eye of modern literature undergraduates: there
- [Dante 2021 and the hills we climb](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dante-2021-and-the-hills-we-climb/) - Stefania Ciocia basks in the light of two radiant literary visions
- [Janet Brown looks at The Descent of Man](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-descent-of-man/) - On the 150th anniversary of its publication, Janet Browne looks at the initial controversy over Charles Darwin's 'The Descent of Man' and its subsequent political consequences
- [Stephen Carver looks at Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde](https://wordsworth-editions.com/jekyll-and-hyde/) - Stephen Carver looks at Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of 'the duality of man'.
- [Mia Forbes looks at The Karamazov Brothers](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-karamazov-brothers/) - The Devil is in the Details: Mia Forbes looks at Fyodor Dostoevsky's final novel, considered by many to be his finest.
- [Private passions and Italian families](https://wordsworth-editions.com/private-passions-and-italian-families/) - Stefania Ciocia takes a sideways look at Dante
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Tristram Shandy](https://wordsworth-editions.com/tristram-shandy/) - This unique and extraordinary novel has entertained readers since its first publication in 1759. David Stuart Davies takes up the story.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Tom Jones](https://wordsworth-editions.com/tom-jones/) - David Stuart Davies looks at another great comic novel, Henry Fielding's 'Tom Jones'.
- [Stephen Carver writes about Professor Challenger](https://wordsworth-editions.com/professor-challenger/) - Dinosaurs, Disintegration Machines and Talking to the Dead: The Wild World of Professor Challenger.
- [Sally Minogue looks at The Woodlanders](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-woodlanders/) - Thomas Hardy’s 'The Woodlanders' is currently being serialised on BBC Radio 4. Sally Minogue looks at one of Hardy’s lesser-known novels.
- [Stephen Carver looks at Tom Sawyer](https://wordsworth-editions.com/tom-sawyer/) - ‘Church ain’t shucks to a circus’: Tom Sawyer and the literature of subversion.
- [Stephen Carver on Huckleberry Finn](https://wordsworth-editions.com/huckleberry-finn/) - The First Great American Novel
- [Sally Minogue looks at The Great Gatsby](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-great-gatsby-2021/) - In the year when Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is released from American copyright, Sally Minogue considers the novel’s seductive power.
- [Sally Minogue looks at D.H. Lawrence](https://wordsworth-editions.com/d-h-lawrence/) - Sally Minogue picks a path through 'The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence'
- [Stephen Carver looks at Orlando](https://wordsworth-editions.com/orlando-2021/) - ‘The longest and most charming love letter in literature’ – Virginia Woolf’s 'Orlando'
- [Mia Forbes looks at Silas Marner](https://wordsworth-editions.com/silas-marner/) - Mia Forbes looks at George Eliot's (Mary Anne Evans) third novel.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Awakening](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-awakening/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Kate Chopin's influential novel, first published in 1899.
- [Sally Minogue looks at W.B. Yeats' Collected Poems](https://wordsworth-editions.com/w-b-yeats-2021/) - In the centenary year of Irish Partition, Sally Minogue looks at The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats in the light of the poet’s relationship to Irish history and identity.
- [Shelley and the Peterloo Massacre](https://wordsworth-editions.com/shelley/) - On the 202nd anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, Sally Minogue looks at Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetic responses to it.
- [Stephen Carver looks at Treasure Island](https://wordsworth-editions.com/treasure-island-2021/) - Gentlemen o’ Fortune and Boys Smart as Paint: Stevenson’s 'Treasure Island'
- [Stephen Carver looks at Vanity Fair](https://wordsworth-editions.com/vanity-fair-four/) - ‘A great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling’: Life in 'Vanity Fair'
- [Stephen Carver looks at Candide](https://wordsworth-editions.com/candide-2021/) - Running and Laughing: 'Candide', God, and the Meaning of Life
- [Steven Carver looks at The Island of Dr. Moreau](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-island-of-doctor-moreau/) - ‘Are we not Men?’ – Evolution and Degeneration on 'The Island of Dr. Moreau'
- [Mia Forbes looks at the poetry of Christina Rossetti](https://wordsworth-editions.com/christina-rossetti/) - “Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.” Mia Forbes looks the poetry of Christina Rossetti.
- [Sally Minogue looks at The Canterbury Tales](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-canterbury-tales/) - On National Poetry Day, Sally Minogue salutes the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer, and his seminal work, 'The Canterbury Tales'.
- [Mia Forbes looks at The Poetry of Oscar Wilde](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-poetry-of-oscar-wilde/) - “I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.” Mia Forbes looks at the poetry of Oscar Wilde.
- [Stephen Carver looks at The Time Machine](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-time-machine/) - ‘Heirs to the Ages’ – 'The Time Machine', History, and the Class War
- [Halloween – The Night of Dark Spirits](https://wordsworth-editions.com/halloween-the-night-of-dark-spirits/) - David Stuart Davies selects some titles that suit All Hallows’ Eve
- [Sally Minogue reflects on Hard Times](https://wordsworth-editions.com/hard-times/) - Hard Times: For These Times: Sally Minogue reflects on hard times in 19th century England as reflected in Charles Dickens’ novel, and hard times now.
- [Mia Forbes looks at The Death of Ivan Ilyich](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-death-of-ivan-ilyich/) - “The very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.” Mia Forbes looks at Tolstoy's classic novella
- [Sally Minogue looks at A Tale of Two Cities](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-tale-of-two-cities-2021/) - Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities: a tale of Revolution, alienation, and knitting. Sally Minogue gives some pointers.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Moonfleet](https://wordsworth-editions.com/moonfleet/) - “And more than once I have stood rope in hand in that same awful place, and tried to save a struggling wretch; but never saw one come through the surf alive, in such a night as he saved me.” David Stuart Davies looks at a classic adventure story.
- [Stephen Carver looks at The Phantom of the Opera](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-phantom-of-the-opera/) - The Last Gothic Novel: Stephen Carver looks at the book behind the musical.
- [The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson](https://wordsworth-editions.com/e-f-benson/) - What Ho! The Pestilence that Walketh in Darkness: On reading E.F. Benson instead of M.R. James at Christmas
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Around the World in Eighty Days](https://wordsworth-editions.com/around-the-world-in-eighty-days/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Jules Verne's classic adventure, and the many TV, stage and film adaptions of it.
- [Sally Minogue looks at North and South](https://wordsworth-editions.com/north-and-south-2022/) - Elizabeth Gaskell’s 'North and South' is well recognised as a radical novel about social and economic divisions. But might it also cast light on British imperialism? Sally Minogue looks at a rich and many-sided novel.
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Lord Jim](https://wordsworth-editions.com/lord-jim/) - 'You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends'. David Stuart Davies looks at Joseph Conrad's tale of a man's mission to gain redemption after an act of cowardice.
- [Stefania Ciocia takes a look at Little Men](https://wordsworth-editions.com/little-men/) - Home and away: Stefania Ciocia takes a look at the genesis of Alcott’s 'Little Men' (1871) and its place in the March family saga
- [Sally Minogue looks at Mrs Dalloway](https://wordsworth-editions.com/mrs-dalloway-2022/) - BBC Radio 4 this week begins a 10-part reading of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. Sally Minogue looks at the Modernist context as Woolf conceived and wrote her fourth novel.
- [Ulysses: Saluting a novel like no other](https://wordsworth-editions.com/ulysses-blog/) - February 2nd is James Joyce’s birthday – and also the 100th birthday of Ulysses! Sally Minogue salutes a novel that is like no other.
- [Tender is the Night](https://wordsworth-editions.com/tender-is-the-night/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the fourth and final complete novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me, there’ll always be the person I am tonight’. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life was as exotic, dramatic and eventually as tragic
- [Andrew Lang and his magical tales](https://wordsworth-editions.com/andrew-lang-and-his-magical-tales/) - David Stuart Davies looks at three collections by a master storyteller. Here are three books which have the power to transport you well away from a world in turmoil to the realm of fairy tales, legendary adventures and charming folklore. I refer to the Tales of Troy and Greece, Tales of King Arthur, and Tales
- [The Children of the New Forest](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-children-of-the-new-forest/) - David Stuart Davies looks at a classic children's story set in the time of the English Civil War. Frederick Marryat (1792 – 1848) wrote novels for both adults and children. He ran away to sea as a young boy and had a notable naval career, distinguishing himself by a number of heroic deeds and inventing
- [The Last of the Mohicans](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-last-of-the-mohicans/) - David Stuart Davies looks at a classic tale of American history. 'The Last of the Mohicans'. American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851) penned five novels about frontier life across north-eastern America in the eighteenth century. Each novel features the rather oddly named character Natty Bumppo, a frontier scout known to European-American settlers as
- [Sally Minogue reconsiders Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness](https://wordsworth-editions.com/lit-and-colonialism-heart-of-darkness/) - ‘And this also has been one of the dark places of the earth’. As we all recalibrate our understanding of Empire, Sally Minogue reconsiders Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, in the first of a short series of blogs on literature and colonialism. A few months ago, in the balmy Spring weather, I walked with friends
- [The Pickwick Papers: David Stuart Davies looks at Dickens' first novel](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-pickwick-papers-2/) - "That punctual servant of all work, the sun, had just risen, and begun to strike a light on the morning of the thirteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, when Samuel Pickwick burst like another sun from his slumbers, threw open his chamber window, and looked out upon the world beneath.’ In 1836
- [Houdini and Doyle: A Modern Ghost Story](https://wordsworth-editions.com/houdini-and-doyle-a-modern-ghost-story/) - Part One: Atlantic City, 1922 Some of you may recall a few years back a TV series entitled Houdini and Doyle. Created by David Hoselton (previously a staff writer on House) and David Titcher (the creator of The Librarian fantasy franchise), the show used the real friendship between the famous author and the equally famous
- [Houdini & Doyle - Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/houdini-doyle-part-two/) - Part Two: Boston, 1924 Growing increasingly bitter in his grief, Houdini never tired of exposing mediums, even while touring at the height of his fame. As he told a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, ‘It takes a flimflammer to catch a flimflammer.’ So it was that when the Scientific American, capitalising on the interest
- [The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-ghost-stories-of-edith-wharton/) - Although best known for her novels such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton was a talented writer of supernatural fiction. David Stuart Davies takes up the story. The genre of the ghost story has attracted writers from the highest echelons, none more so than the Pulitzer Prize winner, Edith Wharton. As a
- [A winter journey into Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles](https://wordsworth-editions.com/tess-of-the-durbervilles-2/) - When I am preparing a blog, I often dwell on the novel or poetry I am writing about, and sometimes the author, for a few days or even weeks beforehand, so that other experiences often chime with that inner conversation. So it has been with Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Hardy’s great tragic novel with ‘A
- [Book of the Week: A Room of One's Own / The Voyage Out](https://wordsworth-editions.com/blog-a-room-of-ones-own-the-voyage-out/) - David Stuart Davies looks at Virginia Woolf's first novel, plus her essay that is considered as a key work of feminist literary criticism Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) holds a very special position in the pantheon of English Literature. She was perhaps the most prominent feminist writer of the 20th Century. Her work, ideas and
- [Book of the Week: Crime and Punishment](https://wordsworth-editions.com/crime-and-punishment-blog/) - David Stuart Davies looks at what is widely considered to be Dostoevsky's finest novel ‘Though Crime and Punishment is sometimes cited as the first psychological thriller, its scope reaches far beyond Raskolnikov’s inner turmoil. From dark taverns, dilapidated apartments and claustrophobic police stations, the underbelly of 19th-century St Petersburg is brought to life by Dostoevsky’s
- [The Count of Monte Cristo: A classic adventure tale](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-count-of-monte-cristo-blog/) - “On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.” The Count of Monte Cristo begins and ends with voyages. The opening line heralds the arrival of the hero, the young sailor Edmond Dantès, in his native Marseilles after a voyage across
- [Keith Carabine on Mike Irwin's Hardy Introductions cont.....](https://wordsworth-editions.com/carabine-irwin-hardy-introductions-pt2/) - Keith Carabine writes further on Mike Irwin's Hardy Introductions
- [Into the Arena of the Extra - Dimensionals](https://wordsworth-editions.com/h-p-lovecraft/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the work of H.P. Lovecraft
- ['Why I wept on first reading Conrad' - Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/joseph-conrad-part-two/) - Keith Carabine concludes his reminiscence of how he discovered Conrad.
- [A Journey into the Imagination](https://wordsworth-editions.com/jules-verne/) - David Stuart Davies writes on the fantastic tales of Jules Verne.
- [Writings dark as a raven’s wing](https://wordsworth-editions.com/writings-dark-as-a-ravens-wing/) - David Stuart Davies on the master of terror and pioneer of detective fiction - Edgar Allan Poe
- [Not Your Average Halloween Read: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’](https://wordsworth-editions.com/not-your-average-halloween-read-charlotte-perkins-gilmans-the-yellow-wall-paper/) - Fans of vintage horror will find that this short story holds its own against Edgar Allan Poe’s most terrifying tales. Stefania Ciocia has a closer look for us.
- [H.G Wells: Everything you ever wanted to know](https://wordsworth-editions.com/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-hg-wells/) - Durham University's Professor Simon James take us through the great author's life and works
- [Will the real father of 'modern' Christmas please stand up!](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dickens-christmas/) - Where do our (often non-religious) traditional customs originate from? Two words: Charles Dickens
- [What If… The science fiction films of H. G. Wells](https://wordsworth-editions.com/what-if-the-science-fiction-films-of-h-g-wells/) - Part One of David Stuart Davies' review of how Wells' classic novels have fared on the big screen
- [Wells in Free Flight](https://wordsworth-editions.com/wells-in-free-flight/) - Laurence Davies looks at H.G. Wells fascination with flight and its depiction in contemporary fiction.
- [H. G. Wells and His Literary Milieu at the Fin-de-Siecle](https://wordsworth-editions.com/h-g-wells-and-his-literary-milieu-at-the-findesiecle/) - Linda Dryden of the H.G. Wells Society looks at Wells often difficult relationships with his fellow writers.
- [Woolf Works](https://wordsworth-editions.com/woolf-works/) - Wayne McGregor and the Royal Ballet re-imagine Virginia Woolf and her work - Sally Minogue reviews.
- [Will the real protagonist please stand up?](https://wordsworth-editions.com/will-the-real-protagonist-please-stand-up/) - New guest blogger NUTS4R2 looks at the archetypal heroes of classic fiction.
- [Mia Forbes takes up the story of Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit](https://wordsworth-editions.com/martin-chuzzlewit/) - 'This is not the republic I came to see; this is not the republic of my imagination. Charles Dickens' visit to America in 1842 did not go well, and his disillusionment showed in his next novel, Martin Chuzzlewit. Mia Forbes takes up the story. “The curse of our house”, said the old man, looking kindly
- [David Stuart Davies looks at The Secret Agent](https://wordsworth-editions.com/conrad-secret-agent-blog/) - David Stuart Davies looks at one of Joseph Conrad's later political novels.. The Secret Agent is a bleak novel, the gloom of which is alleviated by the subtle thread of humour which is woven into the story. The dark and often depressing mood of the book is said to have been influenced by Charles Dickens’
- [The Real Count Dracula](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-real-count-dracula/) - Dr Stephen Carver looks at the most famous vampire of them all. When Bram Stoker died after a series of strokes on April 20, 1912, his obituary in The Times made only a single and cursory reference to Dracula noting that ‘He was the master of a particularly lurid and creepy kind of fiction’. The
- [Sally Minogue looks at Kim](https://wordsworth-editions.com/blog-sm-kim/) - Sally Minogue continues her ‘Empire’ series, looking at Rudyard Kipling’s novel Kim and touching on some of his poetry. Rudyard Kipling has elements in common with my previous subject, Joseph Conrad, in spite of appearances to the contrary. ‘Rudyard’ was Kipling’s second given name (his first was Joseph), derived from Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire where
- [David Stuart Davies looks at Agnes Grey](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dsd-agnes-grey-blog/) - Agnes Grey was Anne’s Brontë's first novel, written at the time when her sister Emily was working on Wuthering Heights and sister Charlotte on The Professor. David Stuart Davies takes up the story. ‘The statistics touching lunatic asylums give a frightful proportion of governesses in the list of the insane.’ - Fraser’s literary magazine, 1844
- [Scene at Christmas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/scene-at-christmas/) - David Stuart Davies looks at festive moments in literature. It is perhaps not surprising that many writers have included a Christmas scene or passage in their novels. It is a time of year when passions are roused and the potential for great comedy or chilling melodrama is rife. Christmas is like an isolated moment in
- [Book of the Week: Far From the Madding Crowd](https://wordsworth-editions.com/hardy-blog/) - Far From the Madding Crowd has disaster and desperation within it, but it remains one of Hardy’s most optimistic novels. Sally Minogue considers why. To begin at the end - Far From the Madding Crowd is one of Thomas Hardy’s happier novels, which is to say, it ends happily. This being Hardy, there is much
- [Book of the Week: Middlemarch](https://wordsworth-editions.com/george-eliot-middlemarch/) - George Eliot’s Middlemarch is set in the period of the 1832 Reform Act and general election. Sally Minogue uncovers some similarities with the present. George Eliot’s Middlemarch is a compendious novel, generous in its sweep, with a cast of characters of near-Dickensian proportions (though Eliot is an entirely different kind of novelist), taking in Italy
- [Elizabeth Gaskell: A radical spirit.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/elizabeth-gaskell/) - Below the benign surface of Elizabeth Gaskell, the author of 'Cranford', Sally Minogue recognises a radical spirit.
- [‘Children of the night… what music they make.’](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dsd-blog-bram-stoker/) - David Stuart Davies writes on Bram Stoker
- [M. R. James – A Pleasurable Uncertainty](https://wordsworth-editions.com/m-r-james/) - David Stuart Davies on one of the great writers of ghost stories
- [Virginia Woolf's Orlando](https://wordsworth-editions.com/virginia-woolf-orlando/) - A new staging of Virginia Woolf’s 'Orlando' at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, inspires Sally Minogue to revisit the novel.
- [Anything But Elementary](https://wordsworth-editions.com/anything-but-elementary/) - David Stuart Davies reflects on the continuing appeal of Sherlock Holmes.
- [The Brontës at Haworth](https://wordsworth-editions.com/haworth-museum/) - Sally Minogue revisits the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
- [Sally Minogue writes on Charlotte Brontë](https://wordsworth-editions.com/charlotte-bronte/) - Sally Minogue writes on the life and works of the oldest of the Brontë sisters.
- [The pleasures of James Joyce](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-pleasures-of-james-joyce/) - Professor Cedric Watts on the pleasures of reading James Joyce:
- [Wordsworth Introductions](https://wordsworth-editions.com/wordsworth-introductions/) - Keith Carabine reflects upon our introductions in general, and 'The Great Gatsby' in particular.
- [Book of the Week: 'Shirley'.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dsd-looks-at-shirley/) - David Stuart Davies looks at the second published novel of Charlotte Brontë Shirley is one of the lesser-known works of Charlotte Brontë (1816 -55), overshadowed somewhat by her blockbuster Jane Eyre, which is a shame because it is a fine novel with an engrossing narrative. Hurt by certain the criticisms of Jane Eye as being
- [Book of the Week: Bleak House](https://wordsworth-editions.com/dsd-bleak-house/) - Keep out of Chancery… it’s like being ground to bits in a slow mill; it’s like being roasted at a slow fire; it’s being stung to death by single bees; it’s being drowned by drops; it’s going mad by grains.’ John Jarndyce, Bleak House Bleak House (1851-53) is one of Dickens’ greatest novels. It has
- [Book of the Week: Desperate Remedies](https://wordsworth-editions.com/desperate-remedies-hardys-first-novel/) - Desperate Remedies is the first published novel written by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) and as such is a wonderful amalgam of gothic mystery and an exploration of the themes and ideas about life, fate and the way unpredictable circumstance can dictate the path one takes through life, which were expanded upon in his subsequent
- [Book of the Week: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom](https://wordsworth-editions.com/blog-seven-pillars-of-wisdom/) - The Seven Pillars of Wisdom' ‘It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language. As a narrative of war and adventure it is unsurpassable.’ Winston Churchill Thomas Edward Lawrence (1886 – 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat and author, best known for his legendary was activities in the Middle East
- [Book of the Week: Faust](https://wordsworth-editions.com/faust-reviewed/) - The basic premise of the story of Faust is generally well known. It concerns a magician who agrees to surrender his soul to Mephistopheles, an evil spirit, for a certain period of time in exchange for otherwise unattainable knowledge and magical powers giving him access to all the world’s pleasures. It is believed that the
- [Book of the Week: The Mayor of Casterbridge](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-mayor-of-casterbridge-blog/) - ‘Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies’. Thomas Hardy’s novels of rural life in his fictional county of Wessex (standing in for Hardy’s own county of Dorset) are filled with dark moralising and pessimistic philosophy, epitomized by the author’s assertion in the final lines of The Mayor
- [Book of the Week: Notes from Underground](https://wordsworth-editions.com/notes-from-underground-blog/) - David Stuart Davies writes on our collection of the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Here we have a volume, sometimes translated as Memoirs from Underground (1864) which is a comprehensive collection of the short fiction by the great Russian writer Fydor Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881). Its importance derives from the fact that more than the
- [The Timeless Story of The Railway Children](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-railway-children-2/) - The story of The Railway Children is one that has resonated with readers for over a century. Now, beloved children’s author Jacqueline Wilson has put her own twist on E. Nesbit’s tale, modernising the narrative for a whole new audience of young readers. The Primrose Railway Children, her own title, was released in paperback earlier
- [Spooks on Screen](https://wordsworth-editions.com/spooks-on-screen/) - As the nights draw in, the leaves turn red and gold with a chill wind easing them from the branches to provide a rainbow carpet below, and so we move into the Haunting Season. It is the time of Hallowe’en, when all the ghosts and long-legged beasties come out to taunt us poor mortals –
- [A Princess in the Attic](https://wordsworth-editions.com/a-princess-in-the-attic/) - Denise Hanrahan-Wells looks at Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic Children's Story I first came across A Little Princess through the 1973 BBC adaptation and was immediately captivated by it. I am not sure exactly what drew me in but having recently returned to the original novel I realise I was a similar age to the gently
- [Adam Bede](https://wordsworth-editions.com/adam-bede-blog/) - Published in 1859, 'Adam Bede' was the first novel by Mary Ann Evans, writing under her pen name George Eliot. David Stuart Davies takes up the story.
- [The Science Fiction Films of H.G. Wells: Part Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-science-fiction-films-of-h-g-wells-part-two/) - David Stuart Davies concludes his review of the film adaptations of H.G. Wells 'scientific romances'.
- [Beyond The Three Musketeers: The life and times of Alexandre Dumas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/beyond-the-three-musketeers-the-life-and-times-of-alexandre-dumas/) - David Stuart Davies describes how his novels remain a continuing monument to his brilliance as a storyteller
- [To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters](https://wordsworth-editions.com/to-walk-invisible-bronte/) - Sally Minogue watches Sally Wainwright’s new drama about the Brontës
- [How Shelley broke new ground with Frankenstein](https://wordsworth-editions.com/how-mary-shelley-broke-new-ground-with-frankenstein/) - Not only in gothic story-telling, but also in the form of the novel - David Stuart Davies looks at her work.
- [Sally Minogue re-evaluates Robinson Crusoe](https://wordsworth-editions.com/robinson-crusoe-2/) - The story of Robinson Crusoe is familiar to us in many forms; here Sally Minogue re-evaluates Daniel Defoe’s novel some 300 years after it was first published. I touched briefly on Robinson Crusoe (1719) in my final ‘Empire’ blog as an example of a novel whose depiction of power relations received a countering fictional response in
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- [E.T.A Hoffman](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/e-t-a-hoffman/) - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist.[1][2][3] He is the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. In addition, his stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann,
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- [Nesbit E.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/nesbit-e/) - The greatest wish of Edith Nesbit (1858 - 1924) was to be remembered as a poet, but her poetry, like much of her adult fiction, is long forgotten. She came to write children's stories in later life, and was a responsible for a string of enduring titles, the most notable being 'The Railway Children'. She has been described as 'the first modern writer for children', although Wordsworth readers have also been introduced to her talents as a writer of supernatural fiction.
- [Blackwood Algernon](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/blackwood-algernon/) - Algernon Henry Blackwood CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was a British author, journalist, paranormal investigator and broadcaster. Blackwood wrote in a number of genres, including children’s fiction, but was best known as a writer of weird tales, horror, and ghost stories. The British press dubbed him ‘The Ghost Man’, and H.P. Lovecraft
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- [Lawrence T.E.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/lawrence-t-e/) - The image of 'Lawrence of Arabia', dressed in white Arab robes astride a camel is a familiar one, propagated by David Lean's film 1962 film, but dating back to American journalist Lowell Thomas's sensationalist account of Lawrence's part in the Arab revolt, and from Lawrence's own autobiographical account 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' which, despite some doubts as to its truth in parts, has been described as 'one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'.
- [Gilbert Henry](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/gilbert-henry/) - Henry Gilbert (1868–1937) was a journalist, who wrote a number of books for children based on historical figures, mainly legendary, the most popular of which is 'Robin Hood'.
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- [Lang Andrew](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/lang-andrew/) - Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) was one of the most important collectors of folk and fairy tales, which he edited into twenty volumes, from 'The Blue Book' onwards. Some of his best work is available from Wordsworth, in 'Tales from the Arabian Nights', 'Tales of Troy and Greece', and 'Tales from King Arthur'.
- [Dostoevsky Fyodor](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/dostoevsky-fyodor/) - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is a Russian novelist. Of his eleven novels, his three most famous were written later in life: 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'. His books have been translated into over 170 languages, and have sold over 15 million copies.
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- [Ford Ford Madox](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/ford-ford-madox/) - One of the primary reasons for the works of Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) being undervalued was his own endless self-promotion – truly a legend in his own mind – which tended to produce the opposite effect with his critics. In truth, ‘The Good Soldier’ is one of the great modern novels, ranking alongside Conrad, Joyce and James, and his fine tetralogy which makes up ‘Parade’s End’ has been the subject of a recent TV adaptation.
- [Flaubert Gustave](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/flaubert-gustave/) - Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) achieved instant success and fame, indeed notoriety, with his first novel, ‘Madam Bovary’, published in 1857. He was prosecuted on the basis that the novel was ‘offensive to public morality and religion’. Although found not guilty, Flaubert earned a lecture from the judge on the dangers of ‘realism’. The book was a huge success, and Flaubert came to be considered one of the great novelists of Western literature.
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- [Fielding Henry](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/fielding-henry/) - Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was an English novelist; building on the foundations put in place by Daniel Defoe and others, he was a major contributor to the form of the modern novel. He wrote four novels, of which the most enduring is ‘The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling’, widely regarded as among the finest books ever written.
- [Dickens Charles](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/dickens-charles/) - When 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club', his first novel, was published, Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was just twenty-four. Published, like most of his books, in weekly instalments, it started him on a path to fame, wealth and international acclaim. Widely considered to be a literary genius second only to Shakespeare, Dickens' works, such as 'Great Expectations' and 'A Christmas Carol', remain as popular as ever.
- [Doyle Conan Arthur Sir](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/doyle-conan-arthur-sir/) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and writer. His works encompass a wide variety of genres, and it was his historical novels that he considered his finest work. However, posterity remembers him only as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Each new generation discovers Holmes afresh, as the current TV and film adaptations demonstrate. Doyle created a character so well known that he exists in the borderline between fiction and reality.
- [Eliot George](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/eliot-george/) - George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880), one of the leading writers of Victorian times. Like many of her contemporary female writers, she published her books using a male name in order to be taken seriously. Her novels, including ‘Adam Bede’, ‘The Mill on the Floss’ and ‘Middlemarch’, have remained perennially popular and the subject of numerous television adaptations.
- [Kingsley Charles](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/kingsley-charles/) - Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875) was a Victorian clergyman and writer, whose book 'The Water Babies' not only became a classic children's story, but also a force for social change in the form of improved working conditions for boy chimney-sweeps.
- [Jacobs Joseph](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/jacobs-joseph/) - Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) was an Australian-born collector of folklore, represented here by a collection of his stories, 'Irish Fairy Tales'.
- [Hughes Thomas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/hughes-thomas/) - Thomas Hughes (1822 - 1896) attended Rugby School. The school and its headmaster, Dr Thomas Arnold, served as his inspiration for 'Tom Brown's School Days', an adventure based on life in a public school.
- [Haggard H. Rider](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/haggard-h-rider/) - Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925) was an English writer famous for his adventure stories set in Africa, 'King Solomon's Mines' and its sequel, 'Allan Quatermain'.
- [Coolidge Susan](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/coolidge-susan/) - Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncy Woolsey (1835-1905), the creator of 'What Katy Did' and its four sequels. This ever-popular series was very influential on later books in the same genre.
- [Collodi Carlo](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/collodi-carlo/) - Carlo Collodi was the pen name of Carlo Lorenzini (1826-1890) who dismissed his own work, 'The Adventures of Pinocchio' as "childish twaddle", little suspecting that, after his death, it would become one of the best-loved children's stories ever written.
- [Aesop](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/aesop/) - Aesop lived approximately 620-564 B.C. and his fables have been in print in English since 1484. Although now considered as children's stories, they are believed to have been written as thinly disguised social and political criticisms. Whatever their origins, the stories and their morals are very familiar to readers of all ages.
- [Wallace Lewis](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/wallace-lew/) - The writing career of Lew Wallace (1827-1905) was very much a supplement to an eventful life. His military career started with the Mexican American war of 1846, and in the American Civil War he reached the rank of Major-General. Subsequently he became governor of New Mexico, and then U.S. minister to the Ottoman Empire. In the midst of all this activity, he found time to write 'Ben-Hur', a novel of the later days of the Roman Empire, and the early days of Christianity, which became one of the best-selling American novels of the nineteenth century.
- [Virgil](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/virgil/) - Considered the greatest of the Roman poets, Publius Vergilius Maro, known as Virgil (70BC -19BC) took Greek literary traditions and transformed them into something unique. 'The Aeneid', which consists of twelve books, each between 700 and 1,000 lines long, is considered the crowning achievement of Roman culture.
- [Lamb Charles and Mary](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/lamb-charles-and-mary/) - Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834) was an accomplished writer and essayist, best remembered for 'Tales from Shakespeare', a rewriting of the plays which made them more accessible for children. He wrote them with his sister, Mary (1764 - 1834), he, the tragedies, she, the comedies.
- [Lear Edward](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/lear-edward/) - The gravestone of Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) in an Italian cemetery reads simply 'Landscape Painter In Many Lands', and this echoed Lear's own view of his principal achievement. Posterity remembers him for inspired lunacy of his nonsense poetry, collected in 'A Book of Nonsense'.
- [Clausewitz Carl von](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/clausewitz-carl-von/) - Carl von Clausewitz (1780 - 1831) was a Prussian professional soldier, who achieved fame as a military theorist, and his classic work, 'On War', has become one of the most inflential books on the philosophy of warfare.
- [Ali Abdullah Yusuf](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/ali-abdullah-yusuf/) - Hafiz Abdullah Yusuf (1872 - 1953) was an Indian Islamic scholar who translated the Qur'an into English. His translation is one of the most widely-known and used in the English-speaking world.
- [Sewell Anna](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/sewell-anna/) - Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878) had just one book published. Written while in ill health, she sold it to a local publisher for £40. Published five months before her death, 'Black Beauty' is the most popular animal story ever written, and the sixth best seller in the English language.
- [Saint-Exupery Antoine de](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/saint-exupery-antoine-de/) - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944) was a French aviator and writer who has achieved literary immortality through his story, 'The Little Prince', a story for children that has a great appeal for readers of all ages.
- [Falkner J. Meade](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/falkner-j-meade/) - John Meade Falkner (1858 - 1932) a teacher, tutor and successful industrialist. Notable among the relatively small number of books that he wrote was 'Moonfleet', a tale of smugglers that was a much-loved book for young readers for many years.
- [Rackham Arthur](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/rackham-arthur/) - Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939) was an English illustrator responsible for the pictures in a huge number of classic children's titles, many of which feature in the Wordsworth list. 'Mother Goose' was a collection of traditional nursery rhymes which he edited and illustrated.
- [Montgomery Lucy](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/montgomery-lucy/) - Few writers can claim to have had a first novel more succesful than the Canadian writer L(ucy) M(aud) Montgomery (1874 - 1942) with 'Anne of Green Gables'. It sold over one million copies during her lifetime, and has been in print ever since, together with the various sequels that she wrote.
- [Porter Eleanor H.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/porter-eleanor-h/) - Eleanor H(odgman) Porter (1868 - 1920) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose children's story 'Pollyanna' became the Harry Potter of its day. Pollyanna's irrepressible optimism is illustrated by the 'glad game', in which she would find the positive in any situation. 'Glad Clubs' were formed, and the book was adapted for the theatre, cinema and television.
- [Spyri Johanna](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/spyri-johanna/) - Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) was a Swiss writer, and 'Heidi', her story of the Swiss orphan girl sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps, has been a perennial favourite since its publication in 1880.
- [Steel Flora Annie](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/steel-flora-annie/) - Flora Annie Steel (1847- 1929) was an English writer who spent most of her adult life living in, and writing about, India. In later life she moved to Scotland, where her interest in folk tales led her to publish 'English Fairy Tales', in conjunction with the famous illustrator, Arthur Rackham.
- [Marryat Captain Frederick](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/marryat-captain-frederick/) - Captian Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848) spent most of his working life at sea, and used his experiences for the basis of much of his writing. His works are now largely forgotten, with the exception of his popular children's book, 'The Children of the New Forest'.
- [Tzu Sun](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/tzu-sun/) - Sun Tzu was an ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher who is traditionally believed to have written 'The Art of War', an influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy. Sun Tzu has had a significant impact on Chinese and Asian history and culture, both as an author and through legend. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 'The Art of War' grew in popularity and saw practical use in Western society, and his work has continued to influence both Asian and Western culture and politics.
- [James M.R.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/james-m-r/) - M(ontague) R(hodes) James (1862-1936), the son of a Kent curate, enjoyed a glittering academic career, and was acknowledged as a leading authority on medieval manuscripts and biblical apocrypha. By way of diversion, over a period of time he wrote thirty four of what are acknowledged to be the best ghost stories ever written. The passing of time does not lessen their popularity or their ability to chill, and our edition of 'Collected Ghost Stories' remains the best-selling book in the series.
- [Lewis Matthew](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/lewis-matthew/) - Matthew Lewis (1775 - 1818) is an English writer remembered for his novel. 'The Monk'. Although not totally original, having been influenced by the writings of Ann Radcliffe and Hugh Walpole, 'The Monk' has nevertheless maintained its place in the early examples of Gothic horror, shocking its readers, and causing Jane Austen to send it up in 'Northanger Abbey'.
- [Goethe Johann Wolfgang von](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/goethe-johann-wolfgang-von/) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) is widely acknowledged as the greatest writer of the German tradition. He began writing his masterpiece, the play 'Faust', at the age of twenty-three, and finished the second part just before his death. Building on an old legend of the scholar who makes a pact with the devil, Mephistopheles, his work has had an enduring reputation and influence.
- [Herodotus](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/herodotus/) - Herodotus (c.484 BC -c.420 BC) is often called the "Father of History," and is the earliest, and one of the greatest of the ancient Greek prose writers. In most instances, his account is the only substantial one that survives of many key historical events.
- [Kafka Franz](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/kafka-franz/) - Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) is a Jewish Czechoslovakian who wrote in German, and who ranks among the twentieth-century's most acclaimed writers. His works evoke the bewildering oppressiveness of modern life, of anxiety and alienation in a world that is largely unfeeling and unfamiliar. Although most of his work was published posthumously, his body of work, including the novels 'The Trial' (1925) and 'The Castle' (1926) and the short stories including 'The Metamorphosis' (1915) and 'In the Penal Colony' (1914), is now considered among the most original in Western literature.
- [Tzu Lao](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/tzu-lao/) - Dating from around 300BC, 'Tao Te Ching', attributed to Lao Tzu, is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. A profound mystical insight into the nature of things, forms the basis for a humane morality and vision of political utopia.This ancient text is the world's most widely translated next to the Bible.
- [Marx Karl](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/marx-karl/) - Karl Marx (1818 - 1883). Generally considered to be the least funny of the Marx Brothers.
- [Rousseau Jean-Jacques](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/rousseau-jean-jacques/) - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) was, arguably, the most original, profound, and creative writer of the eighteenth century, but also the most controversial, and his work continues to divide opinion to this day. His 'Confessions' recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relationship between the individual and the state.
- [Plato](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/plato/) - Plato (c. 428 B.C.-348 B.C.?) stands at the centre of philosophical thought in the ancient world, being the first person to approach philosophical issues systematically. Virtually every philosopher who came after Plato in antiquity was responding, either favorably or unfavorably, to what he had written. Plato's thought was studied throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and holds a significant position in the history of Western philosophy.
- [Engels Friedrich](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/engels-friedrich/) - Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895) was a German writer, and a close friend and collaborator with Karl Marx. On moving to England, he was shocked by the poverty he found, which resulted in 'The Condition of the Working Class in England'. He co-operated with Marx in writing 'The Communist Manifesto', and after Marx's death, Engels assembled the second and third volumes of 'Das Kapital'.
- [Machiavelli Niccolo](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/machiavelli-niccolo/) - Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 - 1527) remains one of the most controversial figures of political history. 'The Prince' is his highly controversial manual of political conduct and the application of power, written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence. His ideas are finding new relevance in the world of corporate business.
- [Nietzsche Friedrich](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/nietzsche-friedrich/) - When the German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) lapsed into insanity in 1889, he had little conception of the fame and controversy his works would come to attract. Initially influential on writers such as George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Mann, his ideas would be misappropriated by the Nazis in the 1930s to support their policies on anti-Semitism, nationalism and warfare. It would be some years, and with the benefit of better translations, before his works would become more properly evaluated.
- [Radcliffe Ann](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/radcliffe-ann/) - Although Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823) did not invent the Gothic novel, she was a major factor in its development and popularity, and her work was very influential on many later writers, including Jane Austen. Her two best-remembered books are 'The Mysteries of Udolpho' (1794) and 'The Italian' (1797).
- [Gibbon Edward](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/gibbon-edward/) - 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' by Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794) is a work that is instantly familiar to most ears, even to those who would never consider reading it. It comprises 71 chapters, approximately 1,500,000 words, and nearly 8,000 footnotes and covers a time span of close to 1,500 years. Still in use as a reliable record of the period, it has been described as 'the greatest prose epic in the English tongue'.
- [Poe Edgar Allan](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/poe-edgar-allan/) - Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer who, despite being plagued by problems with drink, drugs, gambling, depression and madness, created a body of work which has had a lasting influence on three genres: fantasy and science fiction, detective fiction and horror stories
- [Descartes Rene](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/descartes-rene/) - Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) has been described as the 'father' of modern philosophy, and is, without doubt, one of the greatest thinkers in history. His genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity. His writings attempted to answer the central questions surrounding the self, God, free-will and knowledge, using the science of thought as opposed to received wisdom based on the tenets of faith.
- [Paine Thomas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/paine-thomas/) - Born in Norfolk, Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) emigrated to the British colonies in America in 1774, in time to support and participate in the fight for American independence. Subseqently, he became involved in the French Revolution, and his book 'The Rights of Man' earned the respect of liberals throughout the world, international repute and the ire of the British Government. His popularity suffered a complete collapse with the publication of 'The Age of Reason', with its attack on Christianity, and religion in general, although, in time, the book could be seen to reflect the underlying trend in American thought in the eighteenth century, and 'The Rights of Man' to define many of the principles of both of the revolutions in whuch he participated.
- [Crowley Aleister](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/crowley-aleister/) - The sub-title of the latest biography of Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947), 'Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master - and Spy', gives something of the flavour of his extraordinary life. Identifying himself with the 'Great Wild Beast 666', among his vast literary output was some fascinating short fiction which is gathered together in two Wordworth collections.
- [Gibran Kahlil](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/gibran-kahlil/) - 'The Prophet', by Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) is a book composed of twenty-six poetic essays. Continually in print since its publication in 1923, its ongoing popularity is a continuation of the interest generated by the American counterculture of the 1960s and the New Age movement.
- [Hume David](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/hume-david/) - David Hume (1711-1776) is one of the most important British philosophers, essayists, and historians of the eighteenth century. Hume’s works, controversial in his day, remain deeply and widely influential in ours, especially for his contributions to our understanding of the nature of morality, political and economic theory, philosophy of religion, and philosophical naturalism.
- [Freud Sigmund](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/freud-sigmund/) - Sigismund Freud (1856 - 1939), better known as Sigmund Freud, was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. If some of his ideas, always controversial, have now fallen out of favour, it does not diminish the impact that his thinking has had on psychology, therapy and, indeed, culture in general. His favourite book, 'The Interpretation of Dreams', remains the most significant work on the subject matter, even if some of the underlying theories have been discredited.
- [Spinoza Benedict](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/spinoza-benedict/) - Benedictus de Spinoza (1632 - 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. While living quietly, working as a lens grinder, Spinoza wrote of highly controversial ideas which saw him expelled from his community. His 'Ethics', published posthumously, led him to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy, laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism. Spinoza is considered to be one of Western philosophy's most important philosophers.
- [Yang Shang](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/yang-shang/) - Shang Yang (390 - 338BC) was an important Chinese statesman of Qin in the Warring States Period of ancient China. With the support of Duke Xiao of Qin, Yang enacted numerous reforms (in accordance with his legalist philosophy recorded in The Book of Lord Shang) in the state of Qin that helped to change Qin from a peripheral state into a militarily powerful and strongly centralised kingdom
- [More Sir Thomas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/more-sir-thomas/) - Sir Thomas More’s 'Utopia' is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous ’description’ of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless.
- [Tocqueville Alexis de](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/tocqueville-alexis-de/) - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859) was a French philosopher. His 'Democracy in America' is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, and above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe.
- [Dante](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/dante/) - Dante Alighieri (1265? - 1321) is considered the finest poet that Italy has ever produced, and is also celebrated as a major influence on western European culture through his major work, 'The Divine Comedy'.
- [Lovecraft H.P.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/lovecraft-h-p/) - H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937) is widely considered the twentieth century's most important writer of supernatural horror fiction. Forging a unique niche within the horror genre, he created what became known as "weird tales," stories containing a distinctive blend of dreamlike imagery, Gothic terror, and elaborate concocted mythology.
- [Leroux Gaston](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/leroux-gaston/) - Gaston Leroux (1868 - 1927) was a French novelist, playwright and journalist. His principal claim to fame is to have written 'The Phantom of the Opera', but also he wrote a number of extremely popular detective stories, including the most notable 'The Mystery of the Yellow Room', the original murder-in-a-locked room mystery.
- [Darwin Charles](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/darwin-charles/) - There have been few books written of more significance than 'The Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882). Although some of the detail has superseded by subsequent scientific progress, the book remains central to current evolutionary theory.
- [Williams Bianco Margery](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/williams-bianco-margery/) - Margery Williams Bianco, born on the 22 July 1881, was an English-American author, primarily of popular children's books. A professional writer since the age of nineteen, she achieved lasting fame at forty-one with the 1922 publication of the classic that is her best-known work, The Velveteen Rabbit.
- [Potter Beatrix](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/potter-beatrix/) - 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 to create some of the most enduringly popular children's stories ever written.
- [Keats John](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/keats-john/) - John Keats (1795 - 1821) was only twenty-five when he died of tuberculosis in Italy. During his life he published just fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes, yet his rich, powerful, and exactly controlled poetic style ranks him as one of the greatest lyric poets in English.
- [Chopin Kate](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/chopin-kate/) - Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty on February 8, 1850, was an American author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of the feminist authors of the 20th century.
- [Locke John](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/locke-john/) - John Locke (1632-1704) was considered the father of Classical Liberalism. His 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding' was a milestone in the developing comprehension of the human mind.
- [Hall Radclyffe](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/hall-radclyffe/) - Born Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall in 1880, Hall wrote eight novels, the most famous being 'The Well of Loneliness'. With its overtly lesbian theme, the book was published in 1928, but was deemed obscene and was withdrawn from circulation, not appearing again until 1949.
- [Blake William](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/blake-william/) - William Blake (1757-1827) was an English writer, poet, and illustrator. From the relative obscurity of his reputation in his own time, Blake is now recognised as one of the major poets of the Romantic period and one of the most original and challenging figures in the history of English literature.
- [Tennyson Alfred Lord](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/tennyson-alfred-lord/) - More than any other contemporary writer, Alfred Tennyson (1809 -1892) embodied the Victorian age, and during his lifetime, he, Queen Victoria and William Gladstone were said to be the three most famous people alive. Much loved by Victoria and Albert, he became poet laureate in 1850, and remained so until his death, the longest serving before and since. He was also unique in being the first peer to be created for his writing. By general consensus, then and now, he was the finest of the Victorian poets.
- [Chaucer Geoffrey](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/chaucer-geoffrey/) - Widely regarded as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) is the outstanding writer in English before Shakespeare, and 'The Canterbury Tales' is still widely read, studied and enjoyed.
- [Rossetti Christina](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/rossetti-christina/) - Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) is best remembered for her collection of verse 'Goblin Market and Other Poems', but her stories, essays, and religious poetry have also found readers throughout the twentieth century. Most of Rossetti's work was influenced by her devout religious convictions and the pressures placed upon women during Victorian times.
- [Hobbes Thomas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/hobbes-thomas/) - Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher. He is best remembered for 'Leviathan', a hugely influential book that has caused him to be considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
- [Wordsworth William](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/wordsworth-william/) - When William Wordsworth (1770-1850) published 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Coleridge in 1798, they launched the Romantic Age of English Literature. Although now generally considered the greatest poet of his age, at the time he would have been considered secondary to Keats, Scott and later Tennyson. His semi-autobiographical poem, 'The Prelude', raised little interest when it was published by his widow after his death, but it has come to be viewed as his masterpiece.
- [Whitman Walt](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/whitman-walt/) - Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. The collection of his poetry,' Leaves of Grass' was highly controversial in its day, as some found its overt sexuality offensive. The quality of his later works places him among the most influential American poets, and he has been called' the father of free verse'.
- [Yeats W.B.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/yeats-w-b/) - W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He is widely regarded as the best poet to write in English during the twentieth century, and was the driving force behind the Irish literary revival.
- [Smith Adam](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/smith-adam/) - Adam Smith (1723-1790) was a Scottish historian, political economist, writer, rhetorician, astronomer, and social philosopher, who wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'. It is considered the first book of modern political economy, and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline.
- [MacDonald George](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/macdonald-george/) - George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author and poet. He wrote on many subjects, including Christianity as he was a minister of the church. However, it is his children's fantasy and fairy stories for which he is remembered. J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden and Edith Nesbit, to name but a few, were some of his fellow authors influenced by his work. 'The Princess and the Goblin' is his most enduring work.
- [Voltaire](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/voltaire/) - Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) was better known under his nom de plume of Voltaire. A prolific writer of over 2,000 books and booklets and over 20,000 letters, he is best remembered for novels such as 'Candide'.
- [Shelley Percy Bysshe](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/shelley-percy-bysshe/) - While the reputations of authors and poets can wax and wane both during their lives and the years that follow, few have polarised opinion as much as Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). His name is inextricably associated with the other Romantic poets, Byron and Keats, but his atheism (and his appalling treatment of his wife) invoked genuine hatred while he lived, and the quality of the poetry of the Romantics in general, and his in particular, has, at times, been much derided. However, the list of his admirers is far longer then the list of his critics.
- [Kipling Rudyard](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/kipling-rudyard/) - Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English poet, short-story writer and novelist. His stories of the British in India reached their height of popularity in the 1890s, but opinion turned against him as the public perception of the days of the Empire changed. With the passing of years, he can now be viewed from a historical perspective as a recorder of the world as it was then. His books for children, including 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Second Jungle Book' have an enduring appeal.
- [Conrad Joseph](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/conrad-joseph/) - Born Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski in Ukraine of Polish parents in 1857, Conrad served in the British Merchant Service (1878-94), travelling to Africa, Australia, India, Indonesia and the Orient, becoming a British citizen in 1886. Turning to full-time writing in 1894, his years at sea featured heavily in his early works. His novels, such as 'Lord Jim', and his novella 'Heart of Darkness' (on which the film 'Apocalypse Now' was based) have brought him an enduring reputation.
- [Shakespeare William](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/shakespeare-william/) - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) needs little introduction. As we pass the four-hundredth anniversary of his death, his reputation as one of the greatest writers in the English language is undeniable - except by those who attribute his works to other writers.
- [Gray Rosemary](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/gray-rosemary/) - Rosemary Gray served her apprenticeship in the legendary bookshops of the Charing Cross Road in the 1960s. She moved on to work in the editorial departments of a number of publishers, notably Methuen, Allen & Unwin, Cassell and Harrap, independent publishing companies which flourished in the twentieth century. In 1985 she joined the staff of
- [Rymer James Malcolm](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/rymer-james-malcolm/) - The murky world of the Victorian 'penny dreadful' was the home of James Malcolm Rymer (1814–1884). With stories appearing in instalments over an extended period, and with many contributors, it could be difficult to establish authorship, but recent research has now identified Rymer as the creator of not only 'Varney, the Vampyre,' one of the principal inspirations for 'Dracula', but also of Sweeney Todd, the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street'.
- [Browning Elizabeth Barrett](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/browning-elizabeth-barrett/) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, born 6 March 1806, was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both Britain and the United States during her lifetime.
- [Andersen Hans Christian](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/andersen-hans-christian/) - Few writers are as universally popular as Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). Using experiences from his own rather lonely life, he invented a form of fairy tales that was uniquely his, and which have been translated into over 150 languages.
- [Grahame Kenneth](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/grahame-kenneth/) - Kenneth Grahame 1859-1932 had an unusual writing career. He became an essayist of some note while working his way up to a senior position at the Bank of England, but ceased writing when he retired, then married in 1899. His classic work, 'The Wind in the Willows', came from bedtime stories he wrote for his young son and was published in 1908. Although he lived for over twenty years after, it was his last published work.
- [Baum L. Frank](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/baum-l-frank/) - L. Frank Baum (1856 - 1919) was an American writer and dramatist, who wrote on a part-time basis until he published 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' at the age of 44, at which time he retired to write on a full-time basis. In all he wrote a further thirteen 'Oz' books, and these works have been hugely popular ever since.
- [Alcott Louisa May](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/alcott-louisa-may/) - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) grew up in Massachusetts, and her upbringing in a poor but happy environment gave her stories a strong autobiographical element. Wholesome without being condescending, her deceptively simple writing style made her works instantly popular, and so they have remained. 'Little Women' was her finest work, and was loved for its touching portrayal of American family life.
- [Blackmore R.D.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/blackmore-r-d/) - Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900) was one of the most famous novelists of his generation. The writer of sixteen novels in all, he is now remembered only for his third, 'Lorna Doone'.
- [Boccaccio Giovanni](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/boccaccio-giovanni/) - Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is heralded as one of Europe's foremost storytellers. Boccaccio is renowned for 'Decameron', a collection of one hundred novellas, and widely recognised as a masterpiece of world literature.
- [Bronte Anne](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/bronte-anne/) - Anne Brontë (1820-1849), the sister of Charlotte and Emily, was the youngest of six children and is best known for her novels 'Agnes Grey' and 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'.
- [Brontë Emily](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/bronte-emily/) - Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848) is widely considered to be the greatest writer of the three Brontë sisters. She published only the one novel, 'Wuthering Heights' in 1847, an intense story of almost demonic love and revenge, which over the years has come to be placed among the greatest works of English literature.
- [James Henry](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/james-henry/) - Although born in the United States, Henry James (1843-1916) was educated in Europe, and spend most of his later life in England, eventually becoming a British citizen. His novels often illustrate the clash of cultures between America and Europe, and in truth were not particularly popular during his lifetime, particularly in the country of his birth. In recent years, his novels have been adapted for film and television, and his supernatural stories, particularly 'The Turn of the Screw', remain highly regarded.
- [Lawrence D.H.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/lawrence-d-h/) - D(avid) H(erbert Richards) Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist and poet, whose works were not only controversial during his lifetime, but long after his death. The explicit sexuality of his books, including his most popular work, 'Sons and Lovers', reached a peak with 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', his final book, that was not published in an unexpurgated form in the U.K. until after a court case for obscenity was dismissed, in 1960.
- [Scott Sir Walter](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/scott-sir-walter/) - Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) was a Scottish novelist, playwright and poet. He is notable for being the first British author that gained an international reputation during his lifetime. Although the romanticism of his historic fiction later fell out of favour with critics, his major novels, such as 'Rob Roy' and 'Ivanhoe', are acknowledged as classic works of literature.
- [Stevenson Robert Louis](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/stevenson-robert-louis/) - One of the recurring themes in the works of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 -1894) is the mixture of good and evil in mankind, and the impossibility of separating the two. His two most enduring books, 'Treasure Island' and 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde' illustrate this point, and the depth of his characterisation was very influential on later writers.
- [Wilde Oscar](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/wilde-oscar/) - "I have put my genius into my life, all I have put into my works is my talents". In many ways, the written works of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) are overshadowed by the drama of his life, and the incandescence of his personality, but they should not be undervalued. Whether it is the wit of his plays, the intriguing premise of his only novel, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray, the sporadic brilliance of his poetry or the delightful charm of his children's stories, not just the talent but the genius of the man shines through.
- [Gogol Nikolai](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/gogol-nikolai/) - Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol (1809 - 1852) was a Russian dramatist, novelist and short-story writer, whose satirical works on Russian life in general, and political corruption in particular eventually led to his exile. His best works, including 'Dead Souls' and 'The Nose', make him one of the funniest, yet profound, writers in literature.
- [Keynes John Maynard](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/keynes-john-maynard/) - John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched.
- [Woolf Virginia](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/woolf-virginia/) - (Adeline) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer, whose innovative, experimental novels have had a lasting effect on the development of modern literature. Her books, such as 'Mrs Dalloway', 'The Waves' and 'To the Lighthouse', with their stream-of-consciousness structure, have led her to be recognised as one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century.
- [Wharton Edith](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/wharton-edith/) - Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) was an American writer, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, the first woman to do so. She was a popular novelist and short-story writer during her lifetime, although in the years following her death she came to be viewed as rather old-fashioned. Subsequent reappraisal of her work has established 'The House of Mirth', 'Ethan Frome' and 'The Age of Innocence' as classic American novels, and her excellent ghost stories have found a new audience.
- [Verne Jules](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/verne-jules/) - Jules Verne (1828 -1905) is a French author who, although he did not invent Science Fiction, was probably the most influential writer in the genre. Although basing many of his ideas on the latest technological advances of his time, his invention was so meticulous as to be totally convincing. His novels, such 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea' and 'Journey to the Centre of Earth' are classics of enduring popularity.
- [Twain Mark](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/twain-mark/) - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 -1910) alias Mark Twain, is considered one of America's greatest ever writers. Not only did he write enormously popular novels, such as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', but also a series of classic travel books, including 'Life on the Mississippi' and 'The Innocents Abroad'. Probably his finest work is 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', which is rated as one of the finest American novels ever written.
- [Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/turgenev-ivan-sergeyevich/) - Ivan Turgenev (1818 -1883) was the first Russian author to achieve international fame, and is ranked with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky as the three great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. 'Fathers and Sons' is his most enduring work.
- [Trollope Anthony](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/trollope-anthony/) - Anthony Trollope (1815 -1882) was an English novelist who wrote forty-seven novels and a wealth of other material, both fiction and non-fiction. Enormously popular during his lifetime, his reputation has fluctuated since, partly because in his posthumous autobiography he confessed quite openly to writing for money, which offended many critics. 'The Way We Live Now' is probably his most popular novel now.
- [Tolstoy Leo](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/tolstoy-leo/) - Leo Tolstoy (1828 -1910) is one of the major figures in world literature, and 'War and Peace' is in contention to be considered the greatest novel ever written. But this is only one of his memorable works: 'Anna Karenina' certainly equals it in popularity, and his shorter works, such as 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' are considered excellent.
- [Thackeray William Makepeace](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/thackeray-william-makepeace/) - William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863) was an English writer. His finest work, 'Vanity Fair', brought him fame, and comparisons with Dickens. The novel has retained its perennial appeal, and is widely considered to be one of the finest written during the nineteenth century.
- [Stowe Harriet Beecher](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/stowe-harriet-beecher/) - Although many books have been influential on their times, Abraham Lincoln is said to have suggested that 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' caused the American civil war. When Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) wrote the book, she could not have envisaged its success - sales of the book in the nineteenth century were second only to the bible, and she became a central figure in the fight against slavery.
- [Sterne Laurence](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/sterne-laurence/) - Laurence Stern (1713 -1768) was an author whose work divided opinion during his lifetime and has continued to do so ever since. His most notable work, 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy' was a ground-breaking novel which experimented with new forms of narration, parodied other authors and included some bawdy humour for good measure. Dismissed as a novelty by some critics, his book has been cited as an influence on Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and many others.
- [Shelley Mary](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/shelley-mary/) - By the time of her death, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was remembered for two things: having been the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and for writing 'Frankenstein'. Frankenstein's, creation became an iconic figure in literature and film, but in more recent years Mary Shelley's other works, such as the early science fiction work, 'The Last Man' and the disturbing 'Mathilda' have come to be widely appreciated.
- [Munro Hector Hugh](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/munro-hector-hugh/) - Born in Burma in 1870, H(ector) H(ugh) Munro, or Saki, ranks alongside de Maupassant and O. Henry as a master of the short story. Written in the period between Queen Victoris's death, and his own in the trenches in France in 1916, his witty tales of the adventures of the English upper class in Edwardian England were influential on the works of P.G. Wodehouse.
- [Melville Herman](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/melville-herman/) - The writing career of Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) peaked early, with his early novels, such as 'Typee' becoming best sellers. By the mid-1850s his popularity declined sharply, and by the time he died he had been largely forgotten. Yet in time his novel 'Moby Dick' came to be regarded as one of the finest works of American, and indeed world, literature, as was 'Billy Budd', which was not published until long after his death, in 1924.
- [Maupassant Guy de](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/maupassant-guy-de/) - Athough Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) wrote novels, plays, poems and travel journals, it is for his short stories that he is remembered. His output was phenomenal, writing over three hundred short stories in the decade from 1880-1890. These works are rated alongside those of Turgenev, Chekhov, Poe and James, and were highly influential on those that followed him, such as Kipling, Conrad and O. Henry.
- [Mansfield Katherine](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/mansfield-katherine/) - Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (1888 -1923) was a New Zealand-born writer, who spent most of her life in England, and is credited with being a major influence on the development of the short story. Her style, with its 'stream of consciousness', was said to be an influence on the work of Virginia Woolf. The full worth of her written works, and the influence of her innovative written style, were not fully appreciated until some decades after her death.
- [London Jack](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/london-jack/) - Jack London (1876-1916) is a good example of how the popularity of a writer can wax and wane over the years. In the first fifteeen years of the twentieth century, London's stories of his native America monopolised the market like few authors before or since, yet following his early death interest in his work dwindled. It was not until the 1960s that his work began to be re-evaluated, and he is now considered one of America's finest, and most widely translated, writers.
- [Joyce James](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/joyce-james/) - James Joyce (1882 – 1941) was an Irish novelist and playwright, and is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. His short story collection, 'Dubliners', and his novels 'A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man', 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegans Wake' are unique.
- [Jerome Jerome K.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/jerome-jerome-k/) - Jerome K(lapka) Jerome (1859-1927) spent the majority of his creative life writing for the stage, with which he was associated for over 50 years, but it is for a classic work of English humour that he is now remembered. 'Three Men in a Boat', and the sequel, 'Three Men on the Bummel' have an enduring popularity.
- [Hugo Victor](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/hugo-victor/) - Victor Hugo's life (1802-1885) spanned most of the nineteenth century, and no other author portrays that turbulent period of French history than Hugo; on his death, he was accorded a state funeral. He achieved excellence throughout his huge body of work, but his two lasting achievements are 'Les Misérables' (1862) and 'Notre Dame de Paris', now more commonly known as 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.
- [Homer](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/homer/) - The two earliest surviving poetic works of ancient Greece, the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey' are attributed to 'Homer', but it seems likely that no such individual existed, the works being developed over an extended period of time until they achieved their final form in the 6th century BC. Whatever their origins, these epic poems were a major influence in the development of Greek culture.
- [Henry O.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/henry-o/) - O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862 – 1910) an America writer who has achieved lasting fame through his short stories. He began writing while in prison after being found guilty of embezzlement, and was a prolific writer until his early death resulting from his heavy drinking. While he has received little praise from the critics, his stories continue to be hugely popular with the readers around the world.
- [Hawthorne Nathaniel](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/hawthorne-nathaniel/) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short-story writer, born in Salem, Massachusetts. His works are based largely on historical events in New England, and 'The Scarlet Letter' remains his most popular work.
- [Hardy Thomas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/hardy-thomas/) - Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) had a writing career which spanned more than fifty years, and he is now considered both a major novelist and poet. His tales of Wessex, a fictional amalgamation of various south-west counties, have a lasting appeal, and many, such as 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' and 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' have become popular television adaptations.
- [Grossmith George and Weedon](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/grossmith-george-and-weedon/) - George Grossmith (1847 – 1912) and Weedon Grossmith (1854 – 1919) were brothers, both of whom were known for their careers on the stage. They collaborated in writing a column for 'Punch' between 1888-9, which was published as 'The Diary of a Nobody' in 1892. Never out of print, it is one of the classic works of English comedy.
- [Gaskell Elizabeth](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/gaskell-elizabeth/) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) was a popular Victorian novelist, whose works realistically portrayed the harsh realities of urban poverty and industrial strife. Her status as a fine novelist continues to this day, with the television adaption of 'Cranford' increasing public awareness of her works. She was also a talented writer of supernatural stories, as the Wordsworth collection of her stories demonstrates.
- [Defoe Daniel](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/defoe-daniel/) - Born Daniel Foe in London in 1660, Defoe was a prodigious writer on many subjects, producing over 500 books, pamphlets and articles. He is now remembered for his novels, primarily 'The Life and Strange Suprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York' and 'The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders' and is considered to be one of the key figures in establishing the format of the English novel.
- [Cooper James Fenimore](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/cooper-james-fenimore/) - James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American novelist who, at the height of his fame, was one of the world's most widely read writers, and could claim to be America's first popular novelist. Although no longer enjoying the same reputation of past times, his novels, 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'The Deerslayer' are fine pieces of work.
- [Collins Wilkie](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/collins-wilkie/) - "Make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em wait – exactly in that order." William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was the leading sensational novelist of the Victorian era, and during the 1860s his novels, published in weekly instalments, equalled the popularity of the works of his friend Charles Dickens. With 'The Woman in White' and 'The Moonstone', he is credited with the creation of the detective story.
- [Chesterton G.K.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/chesterton-g-k/) - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer, critic, playwright, historian and theologian. From his massive output of work, he is now remembered principally for his fifty-two short stories of Father Brown, the cleric turned detective.
- [Chekhov Anton](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/chekhov-anton/) - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian physician, writer and dramatist. Considered by many to be the most important short-story writer of all time, his prose works have had a lasting influence on the development of literature. His dramatic work is equally highly rated.
- [Chambers Robert W.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/chambers-robert-w/) - Robert William Chambers (1865 - 1933) was an American illustrator and writer, best known for his influential collection of strange short stories, 'The King in Yellow'.
- [Cervantes Miguel de](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/cervantes-miguel-de/) - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in Alcala de Henares, near Madrid, Spain in 1547. His classic work, mostly written while he was in prison for debt, was 'The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'. Part I was published in 1605, and was almost immediately hailed as a masterpiece. The second part was finally published to great acclaim in 1615, just before his death the following year.
- [Carroll Lewis](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/carroll-lewis/) - Lewis Carroll was the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898). His children's stories, such as 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', 'Through the Looking Glass' and 'What Alice Found There', appeal to readers of all ages.
- [Byron Lord](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/byron-lord/) - "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know", George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), was the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantic poets. Lacking the inhibitions of his contemporaries, Byron's poetry is exuberant and spontaneous, causing him to be regarded still as one of the greatest of British poets.
- [Burns Robert](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/burns-robert/) - Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) is a Scottish icon, widely regarded as the national poet of the Scots, and whose life and work is commemorated on 'Burns Night' on the 25th of January each year.
- [Burnett Frances Hodgson](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/burnett-frances-hodgson/) - Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924) was an English writer who spent much of her life in America. Her most popular book during her lifetime was 'Little Lord Fauntleroy', but she is better remembered now for 'The Little Princess' and particularly 'The Secret Garden'.
- [Bunyan John](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/bunyan-john/) - John Bunyan (1628-1688) was the writer of 'The Pilgrim's Progress', that was at one stage the second most popular book after the the Bible.
- [Benson E. F.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/benson-e-f/) - Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940), novelist, was born at Wellington College on 24 July 1867, the third son of Edward White Benson (1829–1896) and Mary Sidgwick (1841–1918). His father was headmaster of Wellington College and subsequently archbishop of Canterbury. He was a younger brother of Arthur Christopher Benson (1862–1925), Mary Eleanor Benson (1863–1890), and Margaret Benson (1865–1916), and
- [Buchan John](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/buchan-john/) - John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish writer of both fiction and non-fiction work. His most enduring work is 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', a ripping yarn featuring Richard Hannay, who went on to appear in a further four novels.
- [Barrie J.M.](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/barrie-j-m/) - J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright now remembered for writing 'Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up', which first appeared as a play in 1904, and eventually as a book in 1928, with the rights being gifted to Great Ormond Street Hospital.
- [Orwell George](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/orwell-george/) - Eric Blair (George Orwell as he was to become when a published writer) was a child of the Empire, born in Bengal, India, on June 25, 1903, the second child of Richard and Ida Blair. Richard was a civil servant in the Opium Department (the trade between India and China having been legalised under British
- [Malory Sir Thomas](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/malory-sir-thomas/) - The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring and influential stories in world literature, and the principal players, Arthur, Merlin, Guenever and Launcelot need no introduction. 'Le Morte d'Arthur' was completed around 1469 -1470, and the most likely author is Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire
- [Lynch Terry](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book-author/lynch-terry/) - Terry Lynch is a dedicated Ripperologist, and 'Jack The Ripper, The Whitechapel Murderer' is his first book.

## Books

- [Sense and Sensibility](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/sense-and-sensibility/) - Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. 'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense
- [Emma](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/emma/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance
- [Mansfield Park](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/mansfield-park/) - Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while
- [Northanger Abbey](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/northanger-abbey/) - Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent. Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and the various characters whom she meets
- [Persuasion](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/persuasion/) - Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature, University of Essex. What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time
- [Pride and Prejudice](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/pride-and-prejudice/) - Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five
- [Wind, Sand and Stars](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/wind-sand-and-stars/) - “Wind, Sand and Stars” is a lyrical memoir by French aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, blending adventure, reflection, and philosophical insight. Drawing from his experiences as a pioneering pilot in the early days of aviation, Saint-Exupéry recounts dramatic flights across deserts, mountains, and open skies. Through tales of survival, solitude, and human connection, he
- [Jacob's Room](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/jacobs-room/) - Virginia Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day (1919), portrays the gradual changes in a society, the patterns and conventions of which are slowly disintegrating; where the representatives of the younger generation struggle to forge their own way, for ‘... life has to be faced: to be rejected; then accepted on new terms with rapture’. Woolf
- [Macbeth](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/macbeth/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. 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
- [Romeo and Juliet](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/romeo-and-juliet/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment; but a combination of old animosities and
- [Complete Father Brown Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/complete-father-brown-stories/) - With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This complete
- [Great Expectations](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/great-expectations/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Keele University. Illustrations by F.W. Pailthrope. Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the
- [Tale of Two Cities](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/tale-of-two-cities/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Principal Lecturer in English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens’ greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens
- [Complete Poems of Walt Whitman](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/complete-poems-of-walt-whitman/) - With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communicated in language and idiom regarded by many at the
- [To the Lighthouse](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/to-the-lighthouse/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and
- [Mrs Dalloway](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/mrs-dalloway/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is
- [Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/study-in-scarlet-and-the-sign-of-the-four/) - With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes' - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective's faithful chronicler. This novel not
- [Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/collected-poems-of-w-b-yeats/) - With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prize-winner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot,
- [Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. ‘…man is not truly one, but truly two.’ In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll
- [Othello](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/othello/) - Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare’s tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona’s love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to
- [The Idiot](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/the-idiot/) - Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which
- [Anna Karenina](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/anna-karenina/) - Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction and Notes by E.B. Greenwood, University of Kent. Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses
- [Hamlet](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/hamlet/) - Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. 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
- [Oliver Twist](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/oliver-twist/) - Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of
- [Origin of Species](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/origin-of-species/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Jeff Wallace, Professor Emeritus, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University. 'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are
- [Ulysses (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/ulysses-collectors-edition/) - James Joyce’s astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom’s voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by
- [Moby Dick](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/moby-dick/) - With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of ‘Poetry Review’. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of
- [Man-size in Marble and Other Grim Tales](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/man-size-in-marble-and-other-grim-tales/) - Selected and Introduced by Stephen Carver The draped effigy just behind him worried him again. He had been trying, at the back of his mind, behind the other thoughts, to strangle the thought of it. But it was there—very close to him. Suppose it put out its hand, its wax hand, and touched him. But
- [Jane Eyre](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/jane-eyre/) - Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against
- [Jane Eyre - Empress](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/jane-eyre-empress/) - Exclusively designed cover by Carmen Di Mauro Silver foil blocking combined with spot-gloss UV on a matte laminated dust jacket Textured hardback cover complete with matching foil blocking (on front, spine and back) Full coloured hand-designed patterned endpapers Digitally sprayed edged on all 3 sides in full colour Co-ordinating head and tail bands Matching ribbon
- [Lurking Fear: Collected Short Stories Volume 4](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/lurking-fear-collected-short-stories-volume-4/) - Selected and Introduced by M.J. Elliot. ‘The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life - a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the
- [Phantom of the Opera](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/phantom-of-the-opera/) - Based on the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ‘… the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death’s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with Satan…’ Erik, the Phantom of
- [Irish Ghost Stories From the Haunted 19th Century](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/irish-ghost-stories-from-the-haunted-19th-century/) - He told more about it to the priest than to others. He certainly had a secret to tell. He might as well have divulged it frankly, for the neighbours all knew well enough that it was the face of dead Ellen Coleman that he had seen. – J.S. Le Fanu I felt a strange creeping sensation
- [Secret Garden](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/secret-garden-adult-edition/) - Frances Burnett Hodgson's novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing and uplifting. It is regarded as one of the best children’s books written in the twentieth century. Mary Lennox, a sickly ten year old girl, adrift in the world after both her mother and father die is sent to Yorkshire to live with an uncle
- [Frankenstein - Empress](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/frankenstein-empress/) - Exclusively designed cover by Carmen Di Mauro Silver foil blocking combined with spot-gloss UV on a matte laminated dust jacket Textured hardback cover complete with matching foil blocking (on front, spine and back) Full coloured hand-designed patterned endpapers Digitally sprayed edged on all 3 sides in full colour Co-ordinating head and tail bands Matching ribbon
- [Wuthering Heights - Empress](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/wuthering-heights-empress/) - Exclusively designed cover by Carmen Di Mauro Silver foil blocking combined with spot-gloss UV on a matte laminated dust jacket Textured hardback cover complete with matching foil blocking (on front, spine and back) Full coloured hand-designed patterned endpapers Digitally sprayed edged on all 3 sides in full colour Co-ordinating head and tail bands Matching ribbon
- [Meditations](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/meditations/) - The "Meditations" of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are a readable exposition of the system of metaphysics known as stoicism. Stoics maintained that by putting aside great passions, unjust thoughts and indulgence, man could acquire virtue and live at one with nature. The Meditations were composed in periods of inaction during the wars which Marcus hated
- [General Introduction to Psychoanalysis](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/general-introduction-to-psychoanalysis/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Wilson, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Sigmund Freud’s controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The ‘Freudian slip’, the ‘Oedipus complex’, ‘childhood sexuality’, ‘libido’, ‘narcissism’ ‘penis envy’, the ‘castration complex’, the ‘id’, the ‘ego’ and the ‘superego’, ‘denial’, ‘repression’,
- [Symposium and The Death of Socrates](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/symposium-and-the-death-of-socrates/) - With an Introduction by Jane O'Grady. Translated by Tom Griffith. In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire. The
- [Social Contract](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/social-contract/) - Translated by H.J. Tozer with an Introduction by Derek Matravers. In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to
- [Decameron](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/decameron/) - A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost, weaving a
- [The Collected Poems 1934-1952](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/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
- [A Christmas Carol (Luxe Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/a-christmas-carol-luxe-edition/) - A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: ‘Every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through
- [Alice in Wonderland (Luxe Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/alice-in-wonderland-luxe-edition/) - Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll’s delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky.
- [The Secret Garden (Luxe Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/the-secret-garden-luxe-edition/) - Frances Burnett Hodgson’s novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing and uplifting. It is regarded as one of the best children’s books written in the twentieth century. Mary Lennox, a sickly ten year old girl, adrift in the world after both her mother and father die is sent to Yorkshire to live with an uncle
- [London Labour and the London Poor](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/london-labour-and-the-london-poor/) - With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the
- [Utopia](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/utopia/) - With an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose. More’s Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous ’description’ of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless. Drawing on the ideas
- [The Jungle Book Limited Collector's Edition](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/the-jungle-book-limited-collectors-edition/) - The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli’s parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the
- [The Little Prince Limited Collector's Edition](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/the-little-prince-limited-collectors-edition/) - The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book’s brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the
- [Alice in Wonderland Limited Collector's Edition](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/alice-in-wonderland-limited-collectors-edition/) - Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll’s delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky. About our Collector’s Editions: These compact hardbacks are cloth-bound, with
- [Peter Pan Limited Collector's Edition](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/peter-pan-limited-collectors-edition/) - The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find wolves, Mermaids and… Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a
- [Woman In White](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/woman-in-white/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Scott Brewster, University of Central Lancashire. Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels
- [Little Women & Good Wives (Children's)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/little-women-good-wives-childrens/) - Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with
- [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/andersens-fairy-tales-childrens/) - Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen’s most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling and many more. It is delightfully illustrated in black-and white by
- [For The Fallen: The Poetry of the First World War](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/for-the-fallen-the-poetry-of-the-first-world-war/) - In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.
- [House of Mirth](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/house-of-mirth/) - Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University. The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry
- [Much Ado About Nothing](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/much-ado-about-nothing/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broader comedy is provided by Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen. The drama
- [Little Women & Good Wives](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/little-women-good-wives/) - Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an
- [A Memoir of Jane Austen](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/a-memoir-of-jane-austen/) - With an introduction by Dr Sally Minogue Jane Austen's nephew James knew her fondly as Aunt Jane when he was a child, attended her funeral in Winchester Cathedral as a young man, and wrote this memoir of her some 50 years after her death, as her fame was growing. He could not have imaged Austen's
- [Sanditon & Other Works](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/sanditon-other-works/) - With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager. In Sanditon, Austen exercises her acute powers of social observation in the setting of a newly fashionable seaside resort. This collection also brings together Jane Austen’s earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature
- [Wonderful Wizard of Oz & Glinda of Oz](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/wonderful-wizard-of-oz-exclusive-edition/) - In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell her to follow the Yellow Brick Road to
- [Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/nineteen-eighty-four/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949
- [Lady Chatterley's Lover](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/lady-chatterleys-lover/) - Notes and Introduction by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. 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
- [Villette](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/villette/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Based on Charlotte Brontë's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude. Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a
- [Shirley](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/shirley/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue. The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's
- [Professor](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/professor/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. The Professor is Charlotte Brontë's first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a life in Brussels. But as
- [Agnes Grey](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/agnes-grey/) - With a specially commissioned Introduction and Notes by Kathryn White, Assistant Curator / Librarian of the Brontë Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire. This novel is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally-starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-19th century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own
- [Tenant of   Wildfell Hall](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/tenant-of-wildfell-hall/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christchurch University College The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious ‘tenant’ of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband. Defying convention,
- [Uncle Tom's Cabin](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/uncle-toms-cabin/) - Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes
- [Women in Love](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/women-in-love/) - Introduction and Notes by Dr Jeff Wallace, Professor Emeritus, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University. Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in
- [The Nutcracker & The Mouse King (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/the-nutcracker-collectors-edition/) - The Nutcracker is a classic fairy tale that tells the story of a young girl named Maria who receives a magical nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. That night, she is swept into a fantastical world where toys come to life, she battles the evil Mouse King, and journeys to the enchanting Land of Sweets. Guided
- [Middlemarch (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/middlemarch-collectors-edition/) - Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other
- [The Fall of the House of Usher (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-collectors-edition/) - The Fall of the House of Usher is a gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of madness, isolation, and decay. The narrator visits the gloomy, crumbling mansion of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, who is suffering from a mysterious illness alongside his equally strange sister, Madeline. As strange and terrifying events unfold,
- [Black Beauty (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/black-beauty-collectors-edition/) - Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna
- [Far From The Madding Crowd (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/far-from-the-madding-crowd-collectors-edition/) - Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish
- [Treasure Island (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/treasure-island-collectors-edition/) - Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow Inn. An old seadog, a resident at the inn, hires Jim to keep
- [Great Expectations (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/great-expectations-collectors-edition/) - Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them
- [Great Gatsby (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/great-gatsby-collectors-edition/) - Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s,
- [Wind in the Willows (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/wind-in-the-willows-collectors-edition/) - Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his 'Poop-poop-poop' road-hogging new motor-car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence
- [Jungle Book (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/jungle-book-collectors-edition/) - The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of
- [Anne of Green Gables (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/anne-of-green-gables-collectors-edition/) - Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for
- [Railway Children (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/railway-children-collectors-edition/) - When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet. However, they soon come to love the railway
- [Little Prince (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/little-prince-collectors-edition/) - The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book’s brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of
- [Great Gatsby (Heritage Collection)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/great-gatsby-heritage-collection/) - Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s,
- [Pride & Prejudice (Heritage Collection)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/pride-prejudice-heritage-collection/) - Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and
- [Alice in Wonderland (Heritage Collection)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/alice-in-wonderland-heritage-collection/) - Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky.
- [Peter Pan (Heritage Collection)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/peter-pan-heritage-collection/) - The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a
- [Christmas Carol (Heritage Collection)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/christmas-carol-heritage-collection/) - A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly
- [Secret Garden (Heritage Collection)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/secret-garden-heritage-collection/) - Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and
- [Emma (Heritage Collection)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/emma-heritage-collection/) - Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a ‘heroine whom no one but myself will much like’, but Emma is irresistible. ‘Handsome, clever, and rich’, Emma is also an ‘imaginist’, ‘on fire with speculation and foresight’. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married. Her matchmaking
- [Little Prince (Heritage Collection)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/little-prince-heritage-collection/) - The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book’s brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the
- [Jane Eyre (Heritage Collection)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/jane-eyre-heritage-collection/) - Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social
- [Little Women (Heritage Collection)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/little-women-heritage-collection/) - Little Women is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, based on the author’s own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition
- [Anne of Green Gables (Heritage Collection)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/anne-of-green-gables-heritage-collection/) - Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for
- [Wuthering Heights (Heritage Collection)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/wuthering-heights-heritage-collection/) - Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years
- [Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/selected-poems-of-emily-dickinson/) - With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll. Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to her death. She had an immense breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for
- [Essential Philosophical Works](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/essential-philosophical-works/) - With an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris. David Hume (1711–1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–1740), published while Hume was still in his twenties, consists of three books
- [Ethan Frome](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/ethan-frome/) - With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the city, trapped for a
- [Best Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/best-short-stories-of-rudyard-kipling/) - With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and technical terms, exotic locations, and social
- [Wives and Daughters](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/wives-and-daughters/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Gaskell’s last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships – father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter – all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements
- [Irish Fairy Tales](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/irish-fairy-tales-childrens/) - Illustrated by John D. Batten. Stories selected by Jennifer Chandler, The Folklore Society. The captivating Irish stories collected in this new edition include both comic tales such as Paddy O'Kelly and the Weasel, and tales of heroes from ancient literature such as How Cormac Mac Art went to Faery. By turns funny, fantastical and mysterious,
- [Three Musketeers](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/three-musketeers/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury. One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and
- [Count of Monte Cristo](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/count-of-monte-cristo/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance,
- [Man in the Iron Mask](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/man-in-the-iron-mask/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under
- [Twenty Years After](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/twenty-years-after/) - With an Introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury. A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In Twenty Years After the much beloved D'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. In the
- [Epigrams of Oscar Wilde](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/epigrams-of-oscar-wilde/) - 'There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about', said Oscar Wilde more than a hundred years ago. But this remark seems perhaps even more relevant to our present world where so many seek publicity at any cost. Wilde's well-turned phrases and spontaneous insults
- [Leviathan](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/leviathan/) - With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and religious warfare of the mid-seventeenth century, it proposes a
- [Of The Night: 20 Gothic Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/gothic-short-stories/) - Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the ‘Age of Reason’. This superb
- [Robin Hood](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/robin-hood-childrens/) - **Discounted due to a darker colour error on cover** Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time. In this edition, Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest - Robin himself, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and Alan-a-Dale, as well as Maid Marian, good King Richard, and Robin's
- [Dracula (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/dracula-collectors-edition/) - 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth
- [Frankenstein (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/frankenstein-collectors-edition/) - Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would ‘curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.’ The tale is a superb blend of science fiction, mystery and thriller. Victor Frankenstein driven by the
- [Picture of Dorian Gray (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/the-picture-of-dorian-gray/) - Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of
- [Phantom of the Opera (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/phantom-of-the-opera-collectors-edition/) - ‘… the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death’s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with Satan…’ Erik, the Phantom of the Paris Opera House, is one of the great icons of horror literature. This tormented and disfigured
- [Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-collectors-edition/) - ‘…man is not truly one, but truly two.’ In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Born from a nightmare and anticipating Freud’s theory of the unconscious, Stevenson literalises the concepts
- [Daniel Deronda](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/daniel-deronda/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher. George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set largely in the
- [Aeneid](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/aeneid/) - With an Introduction, Notes and Glossary by Mandy Green, University of Durham. Translated by Michael J. Oakley. The Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic vision is accompanied by an undertow of sadness at
- [Cranford & Other Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/cranford-other-stories/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple, University of Hull. The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of her art. As diverse in setting as
- [Adam Bede](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/adam-bede/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. 'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...' Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel,
- [Measure for Measure](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/measure-for-measure/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Measure for Measure ends like a comedy,
- [Awakening & Selected Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/awakening-and-selected-stories/) - With an Introduction by Dr Stefania Ciocia, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Canterbury Christ Church University. This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin’s extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short stories, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), and
- [Pilgrim's Progress](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/pilgrims-progress/) - With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim. John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of the
- [Jack the Ripper](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/jack-the-ripper/) - Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They never succeeded in apprehending him, and to this day the mystery of his identity remains an enigma. But he did leave clues to his identity, and numerous
- [The Ghosts of Bly Manor](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/ghost-stories-of-henry-james/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche. This edition includes all ten
- [Sweeney Todd - The String of Pearls](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/sweeney-todd-the-string-of-pearls/) - Fully revised Second Edition. With a new Introduction and Bibliography by Dick Collins. The exploits of Sweeney Todd, ‘The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’, have been recounted many times in plays, films and musicals, but the origins of the character largely were forgotten for many years. The String of Pearls - the original tale of Sweeney
- [Wuthering Heights (Luxe Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/wuthering-heights-luxe-edition/) - Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return
- [The Yellow Wallpaper & Other Stories from the 19th Century](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/short-stories-from-the-nineteenth-century/) - Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies. The Yellow Wallpaper & Other Stories from the 19th Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of the great storytellers presenting evocative snapshots from that bygone era while at the same time
- [The Phantom of the Opera](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/the-phantom-of-the-opera/) - Based on the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ‘… the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death’s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with Satan…’ Erik, the Phantom of
- [Selected Poems of William Blake](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/selected-poems-of-william-blake/) - Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin, W.B.Yeats, and more recently beat poet
- [Picture of Dorian Gray](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/picture-of-dorian-gray/) - With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham. Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake',
- [Jane Eyre (Luxe Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/jane-eyre-luxe-edition/) - Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a
- [Anne of Green Gables (Luxe Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/anne-of-green-gables-luxe-edition/) - Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for
- [Little Women (Luxe Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/little-women-luxe-edition/) - Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an
- [Pride and Prejudice (Luxe Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/pride-and-prejudice-luxe-edition/) - Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and
- [The Great Gatsby (Luxe Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/the-great-gatsby-luxe-edition/) - Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s,
- [Lady Audley's Secret](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/lady-audleys-secret/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Esther Saxey. The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon’s classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder. It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the
- [Alice in Wonderland (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/alice-in-wonderland-collectors-edition/) - Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky. About
- [Dracula & Dracula's Guest](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/dracula-and-draculas-guest/) - Dracula: Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of
- [The Works of Dostoevsky](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/the-works-of-dostoevsky/) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian author whose works deal with human psychology in the often troubled political and social environment that was 19th-century Russia. Many literary critics agree that he is one of the greatest psychologists world literature has ever seen. His major works include: Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Demons and The Brothers Karamazov. This collection contains:- Crime
- [Complete Brontë Collection](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/complete-bronte-collection/) - This boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the Brontë Sisters' best and much-loved works. Beautifully packaged in a rigid slipcase complete with gold blocking detailing, which complements the strikingly beautiful exclusive artwork that adorns this box. It is the perfect gift for any Brontë lover, magpie/lover of shiny things or literary
- [Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/complete-sherlock-holmes-collection/) - The box set contains six books, together creating a complete collection of the famous detective’s cases. The books are beautifully packaged in a ridged, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork. Includes: 9781853260339 - The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 9781853267482 - The Best of Sherlock Holmes 9781853260704 - The
- [Complete Jane Austen Collection](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/complete-jane-austen-collection/) - The perfect gift for any Jane Austen lover. Each box set contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of Austen’s best and much-loved works. Beautifully packaged in a rigid, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork. Includes: 9781853260285 - Emma 9781853260322 - Mansfield Park 9781853260438 - Northanger Abbey 9781853260568 -
- [Ultimate Children's Collection](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/ultimate-childrens-classic-collection/) - This boxset contains seven of most popular novels ever written for children (and many adults). They are beautifully packaged in a rigid, matt-laminated slipcase, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork - the perfect gift for any book-lover. The set includes: 9781853261183 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 9781853261220 - The Wind in the Willows 9781853261039 -
- [Complete Works of William Shakespeare](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/complete-works-of-william-shakespeare/) - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and
- [Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/complete-stories-of-sherlock-holmes/) - It is much more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently
- [Complete Novels of Jane Austen](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/complete-novels-of-jane-austen/) - Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic
- [Haunter of the Dark: Collected Short Stories Volume 3](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/haunter-of-the-dark-collected-short-stories-volume-3/) - Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott. ‘They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.’ From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of
- [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Second Treatise of Government](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-second-treatise-of-goverment/) - Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth century, and Locke’s works are often − rightly − presented
- [In a Glass Darkly](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/in-a-glass-darkly/) - With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story. In a Glass Darkly (1872), one of his most celebrated volumes, purports to be the casebook of Dr
- [Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/works-of-alfred-lord-tennyson/) - With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Karen Hodder. Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often seemed to personify the Victorian Age, he was a poet before it began and his poems endure to speak clearly to this modern one. His mastery of a great variety of poetic forms and moods enables him to communicate such extremes
- [Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/poems-and-sonnets-of-william-shakespeare/) - With an Introduction by Tim Cook. Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love for the notorious 'Dark Lady'.
- [Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/selected-poems-of-christina-rossetti/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Katherine McGowran. Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth-century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular poet. Rosetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring loss and unattainable hope. Her divine poems
- [Collected Poems of Robert Burns](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/collected-poems-of-robert-burns/) - With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan. Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good
- [Animal Farm (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/animal-farm-collectors-edition/) - ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin’s brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still celebrated
- [Pride and Prejudice (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/pride-and-prejudice-collectors-edition/) - Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and
- [Secret Garden (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/secret-garden-collectors-edition/) - Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and
- [Peter Pan (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/peter-pan-collectors-edition/) - The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a
- [Sense and Sensibility (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/sense-and-sensibility-collectors-edition/) - 'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which
- [Persuasion (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/persuasion-collectors-edition/) - What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of
- [Northanger Abbey (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/northanger-abbey-collectors-edition/) - Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and the various characters whom she meets there, and tracks her growing understanding of the world
- [Mansfield Park (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/mansfield-park-collectors-edition/) - Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those
- [Emma (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/emma-collectors-edition/) - Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married. Her matchmaking
- [Little Women (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/little-women-collectors-edition/) - Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an
- [Crime and Punishment](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/crime-and-punishment/) - "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart..." Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied
- [Dracula](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/dracula/) - Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh
- [The Karamazov Brothers](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/the-karamazov-brothers/) - Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan?
- [Finnegans Wake](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/finnegans-wake/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Len Platt, Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of Goldsmiths Learning Enhancement Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London. Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well
- [20,000 Leagues Under the Sea](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/20000-leagues-under-the-sea/) - With an exclusive introduction and notes by David Stuart Davies. Translation by Louis Mercier. Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is not only a classic science fiction novel, it is also a thrilling adventure yarn. Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant Conseil and Canadian harpooner Ned Land are held prisoners aboard the fantastic submarine, the Nautilus,
- [Devils](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/devils/) - Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils,
- [Collected Poems of William Wordsworth](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/collected-poems-of-william-wordsworth/) - With an Introduction by Antonia Till. William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to write in
- [Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/collected-poems-of-oscar-wilde/) - With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister
- [Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/selected-poetry-and-prose-of-shelley/) - With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition of his day, a fiery political visionary committed
- [Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/complete-poems-of-d-h-lawrence/) - With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the unexpurgated version of Pansies, and
- [Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/collected-poems-of-rudyard-kipling/) - Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in
- [Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/collected-poems-of-thomas-hardy/) - With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina and
- [Canterbury Tales](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/canterbury-tales/) - Edited with Introductions, Bibliographies, Footnotes and on-page Glossaries by Dr Lesley A. Coote, Lecturer in Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Hull. During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father. Whilst he
- [Selected Poems of Lord Byron](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/selected-poems-of-lord-byron/) - With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Dr Paul Wright, Trinity College, Carmarthen. 'I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be'. wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan, which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe and near East which Byron knew so well,
- [Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/collected-poems-of-elizabeth-barrett-browning/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a limited knowledge of her considerable life’s work
- [Complete Poems of John Keats](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/complete-poems-of-john-keats/) - With an Introduction by Paul Wright. 'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the 'Odes' and the two versions
- [Casebook of Sherlock Holmes & His Last Bow (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/casebook-of-sherlock-holmes-his-last-bow-collectors-edition/) - ‘Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’ In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation and the terrible consequences of infidelity
- [Christmas Carol (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/christmas-carol-collectors-edition/) - A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly
- [Last Man](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/last-man/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, The Godolphin and Latymer School, formerly of Royal Holloway, University of London. The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven
- [Age of Innocence](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/age-of-innocence/) - Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New
- [Rob Roy](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/rob-roy/) - With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair. From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to
- [Rainbow](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/rainbow/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth
- [Frankenstein](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/frankenstein/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Siv Jansson, University of Greenwich. Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would ‘curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.’ The tale is a superb
- [Selected Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/selected-stories/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University. Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination.This collection contains some of the most
- [Journey to the Centre of the Earth](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/journey-to-the-centre-of-the-earth/) - With an introduction by David Stuart Davies. Translation by Frederick Amadeus Malleson. The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a volcano in Iceland on a journey which will
- [Lorna Doone](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/lorna-doone/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685). It is also a moving love story told through the life of
- [Robinson Crusoe](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/robinson-crusoe/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of
- [Call of the Wild & White Fang](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/call-of-the-wild-white-fang/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and
- [David Copperfield](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/david-copperfield/) - Introduction and Notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic,
- [Under Milk Wood](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/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
- [Oliver Twist (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/oliver-twist-collectors/) - Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as
- [Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/turn-of-the-screw-the-aspern-papers/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre. The Aspern Papers is a
- [Middlemarch](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/middlemarch/) - Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives
- [Madame Bovary](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/madame-bovary/) - With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest
- [Odyssey](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/odyssey/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love for his wife and son have
- [Ben Hur](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/ben-hur/) - An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession. This was the book that finally overcame the inherent suspicion of fiction that still prevailed
- [Taming of the Shrew](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/taming-of-the-shrew/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare’s comedies. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously ‘tames’ a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a
- [Good Soldier](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/good-soldier/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Sara Haslam, Department of English, The Open University. The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they
- [Tristram Shandy](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/tristram-shandy/) - With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a
- [Sons and Lovers](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/sons-and-lovers/) - Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury. ‘When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life’. - Richard Aldington This novel is Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the
- [Last of the Mohicans](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/last-of-the-mohicans/) - Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of
- [Silas Marner](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/silas-marner/) - Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England
- [Pair of Blue Eyes](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/pair-of-blue-eyes/) - With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic. With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has
- [Woodlanders](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/woodlanders/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Phillip Mallett, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews. Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving tale that has vibrant characters, many humorous moments and
- [Lost World & Other Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/lost-world-and-other-stories/) - With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells) are linked by their imposing central character, the pugnaciously adventurous and outrageous Professor Challenger. The Lost World (forebear of Jurassic Park) vividly depicts
- [Hard Times](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/hard-times/) - Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster. Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen. Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas
- [Moonstone](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/moonstone/) - Introduction and Notes by David Blair, Rutherford College, University of Kent. The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel's cousin Franklin Blake,
- [Little Dorrit](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/little-dorrit/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. With Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the
- [Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz-and-other-stories/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences
- [Mystery of Edwin Drood & Other Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/mystery-of-edwin-drood-and-other-stories/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens’s final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth-century London. Drugs, sexual
- [Thirty-Nine Steps](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/thirty-nine-steps/) - With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, B.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval power. The resourceful victim of a manhunt, he is pursued by both the police and the
- [Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/adventures-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes/) - With an Introduction by Dr. Julian Wolfreys. ‘My name is Sherlock Holmes. it is my business to know what other people don't know'. ’The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective the readers of The Strand Magazine. In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have some of
- [Lord Jim](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/lord-jim/) - Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford. First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its
- [Don Quixote](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/don-quixote/) - Translated by P. A. Motteux. With an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Boyd, University College, Cork Cervantes’ tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such
- [Heart of Darkness & Other Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/heart-of-darkness/) - Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the
- [Iliad](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/iliad/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and
- [Far from the Madding Crowd](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/far-from-the-madding-crowd/) - Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex. Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy
- [House of the Dead & The Gambler](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/house-of-the-dead-the-gambler/) - Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs. Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out. The House of the Dead is fiction, but based on his four years in a Siberian
- [Dead Souls](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/dead-souls/) - With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who
- [Kim](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/kim/) - With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest;
- [Return of Sherlock Holmes](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/return-of-sherlock-holmes/) - With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. ' … once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.'. Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death in the swirling torrent
- [Twelfth Night](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/twelfth-night/) - Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Variously melancholy, lyrical, joyous and farcical, Twelfth Night has long been a popular comedy with Shakespearian audiences. The main plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love. Both Olivia and Orsino are attracted to Viola, who is disguised as a
- [Antony and Cleopatra](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/antony-and-cleopatra/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, B.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial power and the intensities of his sexual relationship with Cleopatra. She,
- [Collected Short Stories of Saki](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/collected-short-stories-of-saki/) - 'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'. Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional
- [The Tempest](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/tempest/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Tempest is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of Shakespeare's late comedies. Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself
- [Casebook of Sherlock Holmes & His Last Bow](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/casebook-of-sherlock-holmes-his-last-bow/) - With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ‘Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’ In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he
- [Wind in the Willows](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/the-wind-in-the-willows/) - With an Introduction by A.A. Milne. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his ‘Poop-poop-poop’ road-hogging new motor-car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures
- [Fathers and Sons](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/fathers-and-sons/) - With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. Translated by C.J. Hogarth. Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth-century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set
- [Les Misérables Volume Two](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/les-miserables-volume-two/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862). One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche,
- [Les Misérables Volume One](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/les-miserables-volume-one/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862). One of the great classics of western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche,
- [Great Gatsby](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/great-gatsby/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury. Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering
- [Time Machine & Other Works](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/time-machine-other-works/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries
- [Resurrection](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/resurrection/) - With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs Translated by Louise Maude This powerful novel, Tolstoy’s third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called to jury service, is astonished to see
- [Nicholas Nickleby](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/nicholas-nickleby/) - Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B. Cook Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and
- [Ulysses](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/ulysses/) - James Joyce’s astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom’s voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by
- [Mill on the Floss](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/mill-on-the-floss/) - Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she
- [Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/tom-sawyer-huckleberry-finn/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a
- [Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/anne-of-green-gables-anne-of-avonlea/) - Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for
- [Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/three-men-in-a-boat-three-men-on-the-bummel/) - Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged, filmed, televised
- [Little Prince](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/little-prince-adult-edition/) - Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight,
- [Dubliners](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/dubliners/) - Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest
- [Old Curiosity Shop](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/old-curiosity-shop/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cattermole. The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and
- [Secret Agent](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/secret-agent/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. 'Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, variety enough there for any
- [Our Mutual Friend](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/our-mutual-friend/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters
- [Orlando](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/orlando/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens
- [Dombey and Son](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/dombey-and-son/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Karl Ashley Smith, University of St Andrews. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing
- [Christmas Carol](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/christmas-carol/) - With a new Introduction by Dr Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Sussex. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham A Christmas Carol has become a phenomenal touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, stages and filmed, this richly influential novella is powerfully vivid and infallibly moving. Scrooge
- [Christmas Books](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/christmas-books/) - With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and
- [Pickwick Papers](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/pickwick-papers/) - With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury*. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz.) The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge
- [Bleak House](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/bleak-house/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the
- [Moll Flanders](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/moll-flanders/) - With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity
- [Complete Ghost Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/complete-ghost-stories/) - Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens’ lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales,
- [White Nights; Poor Folk; The Double](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/white-nights-poor-folk-the-double/) - Translated by Constance Garnett 'White Nights' is one of Dostoevsky’s earlier short stories but one of his most enduringly popular. It tells the story of four nights in the life of the lonely narrator, who meets and falls in love with the mysterious and beautiful Nastenka. Poor Folk was Dostoevsky’s first novel, written to try
- [War and Peace](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/war-and-peace/) - With an Introduction by Henry and Olga Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude. War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast
- [Barnaby Rudge](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/barnaby-rudge/) - Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cattermole, with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780. Dickens' targets are prejudice,
- [Vanity Fair](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/vanity-fair/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the
- [Tess of the d'Urbervilles](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/tess-of-the-durbervilles/) - Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells
- [Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work. This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the
- [Mayor of Casterbridge](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/mayor-of-casterbridge/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the
- [Julius Caesar](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/julius-caesar/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked. The cry 'Peace,
- [Midsummer Night's Dream](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/midsummer-nights-dream/) - Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex 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.
- [King Lear](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/king-lear/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeare’s most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become
- [Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan Pier](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london-the-road-to-wigan-pier/) - With an Introduction by Dr Sally Minogue and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of
- [Candide and Other Works](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/candide-and-other-stories/) - Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent. Candide (1759) is a bright, colourful literary firework display of a novella. With sparkling wit and biting humour, Voltaire hits several targets with fierce and comic satire: organised religion, the overweening pride of aristocrats, merchants' greed, colonial ambition and the hopeless complacency
- [Best Short Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/best-short-stories-of-guy-de-maupassant/) - With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he
- [100 Selected Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/100-selected-stories/) - With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex This selection of a hundred of O. Henry’s succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to
- [Return of the Native](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/return-of-the-native/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Return of the Native is widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy's Wessex novels. He evokes the dismal presence and menacing beauty of Egdon Heath - reaching out to touch the lives and fate of all who dwell on it.
- [Diary of a Nobody](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/diary-of-a-nobody/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life and values
- [As You Like It](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/as-you-like-it/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its boldly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, sceptical philosophising, and finally a
- [Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/death-of-ivan-ilyich-other-stories/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook. Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood
- [Mary Barton](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/mary-barton/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes are dramatized through personal struggles. John Barton has to reconcile his personal conscience with his
- [Jude the Obscure](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/jude-the-obscure/) - Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex. Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life
- [Ivanhoe](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/ivanhoe/) - Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and equally memorable characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the
- [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/alices-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike
- [Henry IV Parts 1 & 2](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/henry-iv-parts-1-2/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard II was successful, but now he himself is beset by rebels, led by the charismatic Harry Hotspur. The King’s son, Prince Hal, seems
- [Ragged Trousered Philanthropists](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/ragged-trousered-philanthropists/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. With a Foreword by Tony Benn. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic and religious authorities. Epic in
- [Years & Between the Acts](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/years-between-the-acts/) - Edited and introduced by Linden Peach, Professor and Dean of Arts and Humanities, University of Wales, Cardiff. This volume brings together Virginia Woolf's last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941), an account of a village pageant
- [Room of One's Own & The Voyage Out](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/room-of-ones-own-the-voyage-out/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society. The essay
- [This Side of Paradise & The Beautiful and Damned](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/this-side-of-paradise-and-the-beautiful-and-damned/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to adulthood follows him from prep school through to Princeton University, where his literary talents flourish, in contrast to his academic failure. A sequence
- [Complete Richard Hannay Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/complete-richard-hannay-stories/) - Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the dour temperament of the Scot with the stiff upper lip of the Englishman, Hannay is pre-eminent among early spy-thriller heroes.
- [Innocents Abroad](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/innocents-abroad/) - With an Introduction by Stuart Hutchinson, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. 'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a
- [Mysterious Island](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/mysterious-island/) - With an Introduction by Alex Dolby. Translation by W.H.G. Kingston. Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his 'extraordinary voyages' was a
- [Forsyte Saga](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/forsyte-saga/) - With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Forsyte Saga is Galsworthy’s enduringly popular masterpiece. Initially, the plot centres on Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor living in London with his beautiful wife, Irene. A pillar of the late-Victorian upper middle class, wealthy and well-connected, he seems to lead an enviable life. But
- [Hunchback of Notre-Dame](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/hunchback-of-notre-dame/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by James Carroll Beckwith (1899). Set in 1482, Victor Hugo’s powerful novel of ‘imagination, caprice and fantasy’ is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the
- [The Winter's Tale](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/winters-tale/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration
- [Wuthering Heights](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/wuthering-heights/) - Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for
- [Portrait of a Lady](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/portrait-of-a-lady/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading. Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error
- [Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/hound-of-the-baskervilles-the-valley-of-fear/) - With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated Baskerville Hall
- [Waves](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/waves/) - Introduction and Notes by Deborah Parsons, University of Birmingham. 'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the
- [Plays of Oscar Wilde](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/plays-of-oscar-wilde/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A
- [Merchant of Venice](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/merchant-of-venice/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. The text may seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished in the law-court, often triumphs in the theatre.
- [Well of Loneliness](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/well-of-loneliness/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Esther Saxey, University of Sussex. ‘As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved… It was good, good, good…’ Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents – a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer
- [De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Other Writings](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/de-profundis-the-ballad-of-reading-gaol-and-other-writings/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving
- [Gulliver's Travels](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/gullivers-travels/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names
- [Henry V](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/henry-v/) - Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his ‘band of brothers’
- [Essential Kafka](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/essential-kafka/) - Translated and with an Introduction by John R. Williams Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help
- [Animal Farm](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/animal-farm/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Palmer, Principal Lecturer in Modern Literature, Canterbury Christ Church University ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism
- [Treasure Island](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/treasure-island/) - Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow Inn. An old seadog, a resident at the inn, hires Jim to keep
- [Black Beauty](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/black-beauty/) - Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna
- [Collected Short Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/collected-short-stories-of-katherine-mansfield/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University. Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories,
- [Best of Sherlock Holmes](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/best-of-sherlock-holmes/) - Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies. The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories
- [Scarlet Letter](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/scarlet-letter/) - Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much
- [North and South](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/north-and-south/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of Hull. Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell's skilful narrative uses an
- [Under the Greenwood Tree](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/under-the-greenwood-tree/) - With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer. However, the novel is not merely a charming rural
- [Wessex Tales](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/wessex-tales/) - Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable
- [Notes From Underground & Other Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/notes-from-underground-other-stories/) - With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky’s short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich
- [Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume I](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/whisperer-in-darkness-collected-stories-volume-i/) - Selected and Introduced by M.J. Elliott. That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more,
- [Communist Manifesto and Other Works](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/communist-manifesto-the-condition-of-the-working-class-in-england-in-1844/) - Contents: The Communist Manifesto; The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; Socialism: Utopian and Scientific With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away
- [Between Two Worlds: The Weird Tales of Arthur Machen](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/between-two-worlds-the-weird-tales-of-arthur-machen/) - Selected and introduced by Stephen Carver ‘Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen.’ – H.P. Lovecraft. There upon the floor was a dark and putrid mass, seething with corruption and hideous rottenness, neither liquid nor solid, but melting and
- [Wendigo and Other Weird Tales](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/wendigo-and-other-weird-tales/) - Selected and Introduced by Stephen Carver ‘The beauty of the scene was strangely uplifting. Yet, ever at the back of his thoughts, lay that other aspect of the wilderness: the indifference to human life, the merciless spirit of desolation which took no note of man.’ – The Wendigo ‘Of the quality of Mr. Blackwood’s genius
- [Othello (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/othello-collectors-edition/) - Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare’s tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona’s love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery
- [Anne of Avonlea (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/anne-of-avonlea-collectors-edition/) - Anne of Avonlea continues Anne’s story. Now half-past sixteen but as strong-headed and romantic as ever, Anne becomes a teacher at her old school and dreams of its improvement. But her responsible position and mature ambitions do not prevent her entanglement in the scrapes that still seem to beset her in spite of her best
- [Best of Kafka (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/best-of-kafka-collectors-edition/) - Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources,
- [Grimm's Fairy Tales (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/grimms-fairy-tales-collectors-edition/) - The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose
- [Alice Through the Looking Glass (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/alice-through-the-looking-glass-collectors-edition/) - Through the Looking-Glass the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised
- [Wizard of Oz (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/wizard-of-oz-collectors-edition/) - In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell her to follow the Yellow Brick Road
- [Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/hans-christian-andersen-fairy-tales-collectors-edition/) - Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen’s most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling and many more. It is delightfully illustrated in black-and white by
- [Nineteen Eighty-Four (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/1984/) - The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision of a world
- [A Midsummer Night's Dream (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/a-midsummer-nights-dream-collectors-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
- [Macbeth (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/macbeth-collectors-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
- [Hamlet (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/hamlet-collectors-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
- [Crime and Punishment (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/crime-and-punishment-collectors-edition/) - Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart…” Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From
- [Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/study-in-scarlet-the-sign-of-the-four-collectors-edition/) - 'Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes' The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective's faithful chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but
- [Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/hound-of-the-baskervilles-valley-of-fear-collectors-edition/) - The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor. Now the hound seems to be
- [Return of Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/return-of-sherlock-holmes-collectors-edition/) - ' … once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.' Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death in the swirling torrent of the Reichenbach Falls locked in the arms of his
- [Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes-collectors-edition/) - By the time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had completed the twelve stories for The Strand magazine that are gathered together in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, he was already growing tired of his most famous creation, but the financial incentive to continue was too great. So began the second series of stories, known as The
- [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-collectors-edition/) - Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained by The Strand Magazine to contribute a series of twelve short stories, which began with 'A Scandal in Bohemia' in 1891 and were published monthly
- [Dubliners (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/dubliners-collectors-edition/) - Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an
- [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/alices-adventures-in-wonderland-exclusive-edition/) - This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now
- [Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/human-all-too-human-beyond-good-and-evil/) - With an Introduction by Ray Furness. Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out his views in a scintillating and bewildering series of aphorisms which
- [Drug and Other Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/drug-and-other-stories/) - This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume, only thirty-five were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first time. Crowley was a successful critic, editor
- [Collected Works of Oscar Wilde](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/collected-works-of-oscar-wilde/) - Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers
- [Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/collected-works-of-edgar-allan-poe/) - Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia
- [Tales of Mystery and Imagination](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/tales-of-mystery-and-imagination/) - With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Premature Burial' and 'The
- [Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/night-terrors-the-ghost-stories-of-e-f-benson/) - With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ‘His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert
- [Collected Ghost Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/collected-ghost-stories/) - With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. The stories are classics of their genre. Among them are ‘Casting the Runes’, ‘Oh, Whistle and I'll come to you, my lad’, ‘The Tractate Middoth’, ‘The Ash Tree’ and ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’. They are all designed
- [King in Yellow](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/king-in-yellow/) - With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'. With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction.
- [Horror in the Museum: Collected Short Stories Volume 2](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/horror-in-the-museum-collected-short-stories-volume-2/) - With an Introduction by M.J. Elliott. 'My eyes, perversely shaken open, gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature could even imagine without panic, fear and physical exhaustion...' A wax museum in London boasts a new exhibit, which no man has seen and remained sane... A businessman is trapped in a train
- [Haunted Hotel & Other Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/haunted-hotel-and-other-stories/) - Edited and with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?' This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel, a clever combination of
- [Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/ghost-stories-of-edith-wharton/) - Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies. Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. While claiming not to believe in ghosts, paradoxically she did confess
- [Tao te Ching](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/tao-te-ching/) - Translated with Notes by Arthur Waley. With an Introduction by Robert Wilkinson. Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. A profound mystical
- [Art of War - The Book of Lord Shang](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/art-of-war-the-book-of-lord-shang/) - Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson. The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years. The Art of War is the best
- [Ethics](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/ethics/) - Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first banned by the Christian authorities
- [Wealth of Nations](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/wealth-of-nations/) - With an Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario, Canada. Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by
- [Twilight of the Idols with The Antichrist and Ecce Homo](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/twilight-of-the-idols-with-the-antichrist-and-ecce-homo/) - Translated by Antony M. Ludovici. With an Introduction by Ray Furness. The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the Übermensch) are forsaken, as wit, exuberance and dazzling insights predominate,
- [Thus Spake Zarathustra](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/thus-spake-zarathustra/) - Translated by Thomas Common. With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey. This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche’s thought. ‘God is dead’, he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche
- [Capital](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/capital/) - With an Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario, Canada. This edition includes both Volumes One and Two. Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in
- [Prince](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/prince/) - Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich. Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century. Widely quoted in the Press and in academic
- [Seven Pillars of Wisdom](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/seven-pillars-of-wisdom/) - With an Introduction by Angus Calder. As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between
- [General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/general-theory-of-employment-interest-and-money/) - With an Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario, Canada John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched. The General
- [Iliad and the Odyssey](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/iliad-and-the-odyssey/) - Translated by George Chapman, with Introductions by Jan Parker. Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every generation. The questions about mortality and
- [Histories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/histories/) - Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith. Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what
- [Faust - A Tragedy In Two Parts & The Urfaust](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/faust-a-tragedy-in-two-parts-and-the-urfaust/) - Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the
- [Prophet](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/prophet/) - With an Introduction by Christine Baker The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon. His language has a
- [Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/) - Abridged and with an Introduction by Antony Lentin and Brian Norman. Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight
- [Interpretation of Dreams](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/interpretation-of-dreams/) - Translated by A.A. Brill, with an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900. Freud is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis, the key to unlocking the human mind, a task which has become essential to man's survival in the
- [Key Philosophical Writings](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/key-philosophical-writings/) - Translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross. Edited with an Introduction by Enrique Chavez-Arvizo. Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity. Breaking with the conventions of his own time and suffering persecution
- [Voyage of the Beagle](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/voyage-of-the-beagle/) - With an Introduction by David Amigoni. Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropical
- [Divine Comedy](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/divine-comedy/) - Translated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally
- [Descent of Man](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/descent-of-man/) - With an Introduction by Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University. In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures
- [Inferno](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/inferno/) - Translated by H.F. Cary. With an Introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and
- [On War](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/on-war/) - Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude. Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at first hand the immense destructive power of the French Revolutionary armies which swept across Europe between 1792 and 1815.
- [Nicomachean Ethics](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/nicomachean-ethics/) - With an Introduction by Stephen Watt. Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply 'the master of
- [Holy Qur'an](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/holy-quran/) - Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it was revealed, so it was committed to memory by his
- [Tales of Mystery & the Macabre](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/tales-of-mystery-the-macabre/) - With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged'. Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such
- [Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/classic-victorian-edwardian-ghost-stories/) - This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories
- [Jungle Book (Exclusive Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/jungle-book-exclusive-edition/) - The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the
- [Lady Chatterley's Lover (Collector's Edition)](https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/lady-chatterleys-lover-collectors-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
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