War of the Worlds / The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened. The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to di ...Show more
Water Babies (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Kingsley
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bo ...Show more
We by Evgenij Samjatin [ Yevgeny Zamyatin ]
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Description: COVER DESIGNS THAT COME TO LIFE! ANIMATE THESE COVERS WITH THE FREE INSERTED SHEET The citizens of the One State live in a condition of 'mathematically infallible happiness'. D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where natur ...Show more
We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn; Mint Editions (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Mint Editions Ser.
We of the Never Never (1908) is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn. Based on her experience accompanying her husband Aeneas to the remote cattle station of Elsey, Gunn's novel is a fascinating masterpiece of Australian literature that explores the landscape of the continent's Northern Territory w ...Show more
We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn; Bogdan Meunier (Editor)
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Category: Classics
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
What Katy DidKaty #1by Susan CoolidgeWhat Katy Did is an 1872 children's book written by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey under her pen name Susan Coolidge. It follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s. ...Show more
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
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Category: Classics | Series: Children's Classics
'I mean to do something grand. I don't know what, yet; but when I'm grown up I shall find out'Katy Carr is the longest girl that was ever seen. She is all legs and elbows, and angles and joints. She tears her dress every day, hates sewing and doesn't care a button about being called 'good'. Her head is ...Show more
What Katy Did (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Susan Coolidge; Addie Ledyard (Illustrator); Jacqueline Wilson (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
'I mean to do something grand. I don't know what, yet; but when I'm grown up I shall find out'Katy Carr is the longest girl that was ever seen. She is all legs and elbows, and angles and joints. She tears her dress every day, hates sewing and doesn't care a button about being called 'good'. Her head is ...Show more
What Katy Did at School & What Katy Did Next (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Susan Coolidge
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Category: Classics | Series: Children's Classics
What Katy Did at School and What Katy Did Next continue the story of the high-spirited and rebellious American girl, Katy Carr, and her family, who first appeared in What Katy Did. What Katy Did at School is a compelling tale of the intrigues of life at the New England girls' boarding school which Katy ...Show more
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. For all its sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupted adult world, this novel is one of James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behaviour of the ch ...Show more
What Would Gandhi Do? by Michael Kirby
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
Former High Court justice Michael Kirby reflects on the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, analysing how the Mahatma might respond to some pressing issues facing modern society
What is History?: Popular Penguins by E. H. Carr
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Since its first publication in 1961 E.H. Carr's What is History? has established itself as the classic introduction to the subject. Ranging across topics such as historical objectivity, society and the individual, the nature of causation, and the possibility of progress, Carr delivered an incisive text ...Show more