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46363 THE COLLECTED TALES AND POEMS OF


EDGAR ALLAN POE by Edgar Allan Poe


Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities - journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional


genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (1841) - he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of ‘The Raven’ in 1845. The poem’s instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. He died at the age of 40. Paperback. 800 pages. ONLY £7


55434 EPIGRAMS OF OSCAR


WILDE by Oscar Wilde Wilde’s well-turned phrases and spontaneous insults still cause much amusement and admiration. Many of the quotes in this book are taken from Wilde’s plays, novels and essays which were also packed with witticisms amounting to an outrageous philosophy. Though from prison came a few last brilliant works, Wilde was never to recover


his health or standing in society. He died in Paris bankrupt, broken and alone. He is buried at Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise, one of Paris’s finest cemeteries. 240pp. Paperback. ONLY £4


47918 SELECTED WORKS OF


THE BRONTË SISTERS by the Brontë Sisters ‘Agnes Grey’, Anne Brontë’s deeply personal novel, is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-19th century. ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’ shows Anne Brontë’s bold, naturalistic and passionate


style. It is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectations, love, oppression, sin and betrayal. ‘Jane Eyre’ ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. ‘Villette’ is based on Charlotte Brontë’s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings and cruel circumstances borne with heroic fortitude. ‘Wuthering Heights’ is Emily Brontë’s wild, passionate tale of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. 1376 pages. Paperback. ONLY £7


56215 SHAKESPEARE AND HIS TRAGIC LIFE: A Biography by Frank Harris


First published in 1909 as ‘The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life Story’ this is a lively biography of England’s and arguably the world’s greatest playwright and poet by an ardent admirer. A product of late-Victorian Bardolatry, Harris’s ‘Shakespeare’ was both hailed and criticised in its day. Controversial and self-confident, this biographical study retains its interest as a work of period charm. Bristling with fresh, if not always convincing arguments, combative in style and with a full battery of belletristic effects, Harris as ever pulls off a tour de force. 312pp in Wordsworth paperback. With an introduction and biography by J. H. Stape. ONLY £4


47916 SELECTED WORKS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF by Virginia Woolf


‘To the Lighthouse’ is the most autobiographical of Woolf’s novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children’s perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’, ‘the longest and most charming love letter in literature,’ playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf’s close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. ‘I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot’, said Woolf of ‘The Waves’. Regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. 1024 pages. Paperback. ONLY £7


62733 DESPERATE


REMEDIES by Thomas Hardy The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with ‘Desperate Remedies’, a ‘sensation novel’ in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit. Hardy


contrived also, in this unlikely context, to give a first airing to various of the ideas and technical experiments which were to characterise his later fiction. The result is an exhilaratingly uneven work: at any point in the narrative some brilliant passage of description or metaphor may burst out like a firework. 368 page paperback. ONLY £2


25250 THE PROPHET by Kahil Gibran The Prophet represents the acme of Kahil Gibran’s achievements. Written in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I’s Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and


Oriental wisdom that derives from his native Lebanon. Before returning to his birth place, Almustafa, the Prophet is asked for guidance by the people of Orphalese. His words call for universal unity and affirm the author’s certainty of the correlated unity of all existence and of reincarnation. A touchstone of spiritual literature. Paperback. ONLY £4


33870 MARLOWE: The Plays by Christopher Marlowe


If Shakespeare had died at the age Marlowe died, there would have been no question that Marlowe would have been the leading figure in English Renaissance drama. This edition of all his plays shows why. The plays give us a clear picture of Marlowe as a radical theatrical poet of great linguistic and dramatic daring, whose characters constantly strive to break out of the social, religious, and rhetorical bonds within which they are confined. Accused during his lifetime of blasphemy and homosexuality, Marlowe still has the power to challenge our assumptions about conventional morality through his innovative theatricality. By placing less known plays such as The Massacre at Paris and Dido Queen of Carthage alongside the acknowledged masterpieces Edward II and Dr Faustus, this edition gives a full picture of Marlowe’s distinctive and provocative talent. 546pp. Paperback. ONLY £4


53204 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES Poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought- provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas. From the straightforwardly anecdotal to the more analytical of human behaviour, all are guaranteed to capture the imagination, stir the emotions, linger in the memory and whet the reader’s appetite for more. Short stories by a host of towering literary figures ranging from Arnold Bennett to Virginia Woolf. A literary feast. 1408pp. Paperback. ONLY £7


23841 KING LEAR by William Shakespeare King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeare’s most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world’s literature. In the theatre and on screen King Lear


continues to challenge and enthral. This Wordsworth edition of King Lear provides a comprehensive, integrated text of the play. 160pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


23800 DIARY OF A NOBODY by George and Weedon Grossmith


The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a “Somebody” - Charles Pooter of ‘The Laurels’, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London - and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle class during the Great Victorian age. 224pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


100422 DUBLINERS by James Joyce Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally- drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country by seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature. Introduction and notes. 176pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


23980 TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE


by Charles and Mary Lamb ‘The Tales from Shakespeare’ by Charles and Mary Lamb were written to be an ‘introduction to the study of Shakespeare’, but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style, and their literary quality has made them


popular and sought-after ever since their first publication in 1807. This edition contains the delightful pen-and-ink drawings of Arthur Rackham. 320pp. ONLY £2


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23787 CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER by Thomas De Quincey


‘Confessions of an English Opium-Eater’ (1821) relates Thomas De Quincey’s early life and experiences of opium addiction at the time when that drug was widely used for the relief of pain, and before its addictive qualities were properly understood. It is a work which encompasses amusement with nightmare as the author experiences in turn the marvels of opium-induced dreams and equally vivid nightmares which are their counterpart. ONLY £2


224pp. Paperback.


23811 THREE MEN IN A BOAT by Jerome K. Jerome


This comic novel describes the boating expedition on the Thames of three friends and their dog, Montmerency. The difficulties and vicissitudes of these innocents abroad are magnified to epic proportions, and give the book an air of fresh innocence. 160pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


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31853 UNCLE TOM’S CABIN by Harriet Beecher Stowe


Uncle Tom’s Cabin has earned the title of not only the first bestseller, but also the first protest novel to have a direct impact on political events. The story follows the life and vicissitudes of Uncle Tom, a noble, high-minded African American, and portrays the humanity of an enslaved black people and the moral evil of their enslavement. Uncle Tom remains a loveable almost saintly figure from the opening chapters when he is ‘sold down the river’ to pay off gambling debts until the climactic ending when the brutal Simon Legree has Uncle Tom flogged to the point of death. The inspirational quality of the writing has moved succeeding generations of readers to agree with Frederick Douglass, who called it a flash to “light a million camp fires in front of the embattled hosts of slavery”. 432pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


24302 RED BADGE OF COURAGE by Stephen Crane


Complete and unabridged Wordsworth American classic of one of the greatest war novels of all time. The book reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier. It evokes the chaos and the dull clatter of war, the acrid smoke, the incessant rumours of coming battles, the filth and cold, numbing monotony and the unworldly wail of the dying. Crane also captures some strange beauty: brilliant red flags against a blue sky, steel bayonets flashing in the morning sun... 192pp in paperback. ONLY £2


£ 27111 COUNT OF


MONTE CRISTO by Alexandre Dumas The story of Edmond Dantès, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantès is fired by a desire for retribution and


empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an


anonymous agent of fate. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Dumas’ novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero’s ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implications of his own actions. 928pp in paperback. ONLY £2


23648 JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH


by Jules Verne Jules Verne’s third great science fiction novel describes the discovery and exploration of a secret tunnel which leads through a volcano to the centre of the Earth. The leader of the expedition is an archetypal comic and eccentric boffin, and together with his ward, his nephew Axel (who is in love with the ward), and


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an estimable Icelandic guide, the journey is made. ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’ achieved instant and enduring popularity on publication in 1874. Together with ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’, ‘Five Weeks in a Balloon’ and ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’, it established Verne as an author of high adventure who filled his stories with a wealth of technical detail, and the energy and freshness of an extraordinary inventive imagination. 192pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


27116 THREE SEA STORIES by Joseph Conrad


As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest maritime writer. In Typhoon, Conrad’s funniest story, Captain MacWhirr blunders into a hurricane that reveals the sea’s treachery, violence and terror. Falk is desperate to get married, but first he must tell of his terrible experiences as sole survivor of a stricken ship that once drifted into the ice-caps of Antarctica. The Shadow-Line is a poignant and beautiful story. Written during the First World War and based on Conrad’s fond evocation of his own first-command, it expresses his solidarity with all who were obliged to cross in early youth the shadow- line of their war-torn generation. Paperback. ONLY £2


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