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Tales from the Arabian Nights

Autor: Andrew Lang

Wydawca: Wordsworth

The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares he...

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Return of the Native

Autor: Thomas Hardy

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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...

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The House of Mirth

Autor: Edith Wharton

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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...

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The Best Short Stories

Autor: Maupassant de Guy

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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 l...

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Richard III

Autor: William Shakespeare

Wydawca: Wordsworth

Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: ...

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Mary Barton

Autor: Elizabeth Gaskell

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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 ce...

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Ethan Frome

Autor: Edith Wharton

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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 e...

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Kim

Autor: Rudyard Kipling

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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 resourc...

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The Collected Short Stories of Saki

Autor: Munro Hector Hugh

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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 stupidit...

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The Children of the New Forest

Autor: Captain Marryat

Wydawca: Wordsworth

Cavalier and Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war and provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans as they face adversity, survival in the fores...

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Cranford & Other Stories

Autor: Gaskell Elizabeth C.

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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, ...

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Twenty Years After

Autor: Alexandre Dumas

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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 a...

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The Thirty-Nine Steps

Autor: John Buchan

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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...

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Henry IV Parts 1 & 2

Autor: William Shakespeare

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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&...

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The Diary of a Nobody

Autor: George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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 ...

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Candide and Other Works

Autor: Voltaire

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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, t...

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The Complete Mapp & Lucia Volume Two

Autor: E.F. Benson

Wydawca: Wordsworth

These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye). Their constant skirmishes en...

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The Complete Mapp & Lucia Volume One

Autor: E.F. Benson

Wydawca: Wordsworth

Lucia is one of the great comic characters in English literature. Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, ‘as by right divine’ rules over the toy kingdom of &l...

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Richard II

Autor: William Shakespeare

Wydawca: Wordsworth

Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dram...

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The Rainbow

Autor: D.H. Lawrence

Wydawca: Wordsworth

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 ...

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