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Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many langua ...Show more
Three Sea Stories: Typhoon, Falk, the Shadow-line by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance a ...Show more
Time Machine and Other Works by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries later as the richest man in a world of new technologies, power-greedy leaders, sensual el ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it tou ...Show more
Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Following on from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) became one of Mark Twain's most popular books. Again we meet his world famous characters: Tom Sawyer, 'Nigger Jim', and Huck Finn - together now on a fantastical balloon journey acr ...Show more
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accide ...Show more
Treasure Island (Wordsworth Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
`Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written. When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map in ...Show more
Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers by Henry James; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Claire Seymour (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
In these two chilling stories, Henry James shows himself to be a master of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension. The Turn of the Screw tells of a young governess sent to a country home to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the house, she soon b ...Show more
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of Twelfth Night have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, but is further enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment. In it, Sir Toby Belch and his com ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave: Including; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Solomon Northup
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
‘I was sitting upon a low bench, made of rough boards, and without coat or hat. I was handcuffed. Around my ankles also were a pair of heavy fetters. One end of a chain was fastened to a large ring in the floor, the other to fetters on my ankles . . . Then did the idea begin to break upon my mind, at fi ...Show more
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