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  • 100 Selected Stories

    by O. Henry, Keith Carabine, Cedric Watts ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.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 tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas.These stories are ... Read more

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  • Ulysses

    by James Joyce, Keith Carabine ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.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 ... Read more

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  • Macbeth

    by William Shakespeare, Cedric Watts, Keith Carabine ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    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 course to gain and retain the crown of ... Read more

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  • Romeo and Juliet

    by William Shakespeare, Cedric Watts, Keith Carabine ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. ... Read more

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  • Heart of Darkness and Other Tales

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    HEART OF DARKNESS * AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS * KARAIN * YOUTH The finest of all Conrad's tales, 'Heart of Darkness' is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renowned and formidable Mr Kurtz. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrify and perplex him, and call into ... Read more

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  • Jude the Obscure

    by Thomas Hardy ...
    When Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895, it immediately caused scandal and controversy. Its frank treatment of Jude’s sexual relationships with Arabella and Sue, its scathing criticisms of late-Victorian hypocrisy, its depiction of the “New Woman,” and its attacks on “holy wedlock” and religious bigotry outraged numerous reviewers; one called the book “Jude the Obscene.” Others saw ... Read more

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  • Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

    A Tribute to John Sutherland

    by Tony Bareham, Michael Caines, Mario Curreli, Simon Eliot, Lara Feigel, David Finkelstein, Simon Frost, Simon Gatrell, Philip Horne, Graham Law, Deirdre Le Faye, David Lodge, Brian Maidment, Karl Miller, K. M. Newton, Robert L. Patten, Fred Schwarzbach, Patrick Scott, Joanne Shattock, Cedric Watts, Alexis Weedon, René Weis, Troy J. Bassett, Linda Hughes, Rosemary Ashton ...
    This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland’s work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles. With contributions from over twenty-five distinguished critics, ... Read more

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  • Typhoon and Other Tales

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    TYPHOON * FALK * AMY FOSTER *THE SECRET SHARER The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. 'Typhoon' is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by tempest, and of the stolid captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. In 'Falk' a taciturn young woman is bizarrely courted by a tug-boat ... Read more

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  • Dubliners

    A Masterful Collection of Short Stories Capturing Life, Love, and Longing in Early 20th-Century Ireland

    by James Joyce ...
    Fifteen stories. One city. A world of human emotion. First published in 1914, Dubliners is James Joyce's groundbreaking collection of short stories that paints an intimate, unflinching portrait of life in Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. From the youthful awakening of "Araby" to the haunting paralysis of "The Dead," Joyce's characters—ordinary men and women—struggle with love, loss, ... Read more

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  • Robinson Crusoe

    by Daniel Defoe, James Kelly ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Victorian Mystery Megapack: 27 Classic Mystery Tales

    by Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, Anna Katharine Green, Susan Glaspell, G.K. Chesterton, Max Pemberton, John Kendrick Bangs, Israel Zangwill, W.S. Gilbert, Rudyard Kipling0, Grant Allen1, Jacques Futrelle2, M. McDonnell Bodkin3, Catherine Louisa Pirkis4, Robert Barr5, Robert Barr6, H. Greenhough Smith7, Edgar Allan Poe8, Jack London9, Charles Dickens0, J.P. Buschlen1, Dick Donovan2, R.C. Lehmann3 ...
    The theme of this Megapack is classic mystery and crime fiction from the Victorian era. We have taken the liberty of extending the qualifying publication dates to the end of World War I, since that event marked more of a turning point in world literature than the advent of the Edwardian Age. Certainly the spirit of Victorian crime fiction continued beyond Queen Victoria. This volume contains 25 ... Read more

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  • Classic Mystery Collection: Illustrated - Crime, Suspense, Detective fiction. (100+ works) including Sherlock Holmes, Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie, Sax Rohmer & more Mobi Collected Works

    by Various ...
    Table of ContentsHonore de Balzac: An Historical MysteryJohn Buchan: The Thirty-Nine StepsEgerton Castle: The Baron's QuarryEdmund Clerihew Bentley: Trent's Last CaseGilbert Keith Chesterton:The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Was ThursdayFather Brown:The Innocence of Father BrownThe Wisdom of Father BrownRobert Erskine Childers: Riddle of the SandsAgatha Christie:The Mysterious Af... ... Read more

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