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Alice in Wonderland by LEWIS CARROLL
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Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. 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 id ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. MONTGOMERY
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Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
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 ...Show more
Emma by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
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 ...Show more
Frankenstein by MARY SHELLEY
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1818 first edition text of the novel, introduced and annotated by J. Paul Hunter. Three maps and eight illustrations. A wealth of source and contextual materials, thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics include "Sources, Influences, Ana ...Show more
Great Gatsby by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge ), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsbyis F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with ...Show more
Hamlet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
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 ...Show more
Jungle Book by RUDYARD KIPLING
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Category: Picture Books | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
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 Mowgl ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. LAWRENCE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
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 ...Show more
Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
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Category: Picture Books | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
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-Exup ry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world ...Show more
Little Women by L. M. ALCOTT
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Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
The beautiful 150th anniversary edition of Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of the four March sisters, featuring new illustrations and an introduction by New York Times bestselling author J. Courtney Sullivan For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March ...Show more
Macbeth by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Shakespeare's Macbethis 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 a ...Show more
Midsummer Night's Dream by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night's Dreamone 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 a ...Show more