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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the 'monster' turns out to be the giant submarine, Nautilus, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by who ...Show more
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury. A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers, /em>, 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 ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Ulysses is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. It is considered to be one of the most important works of Modernist ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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 respons ...Show more
Under Milk Wood by DYLAN THOMAS
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Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Under Milk Woodis 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 Dogis his first collection solely of short stories, published in 1940. These two works show us his remarkable creative brilliance at the start ...Show more
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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. Ho ...Show more
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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 ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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 o ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Based on Charlotte Bronte'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 ...Show more
Virgin and the Gypsy & Other Stories by D.H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one exception written and published in the latter half of the 1920s, coinciding with the composition of Lawrence's controversial masterpiece Lady Chatterley's Lover. At this time Lawrence declared himself to be 'rea ...Show more
Voyage of the Beagle by CHARLES DARWIN
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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-tropica ...Show more
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