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Treasury of 5 shorter works by the author of Gulliver's Travels offers ample evidence of the great satirist's inspired lampoonery. Title piece plus The Battle of the Books, A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit and The Abolishing of Christianity in England. Paperback: 64 pages Publisher: Dover Publications Inc. (24 Jun 1996) Language English ISBN-10: 0486287599 Buy the BEST Cheap Classic Fiction Books...
With an introduction and notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury, "Wessex Tales" was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy to realism and from tragedy to comedy. Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Published: 01 October 1995 Format: Paperback 224 pages Buy the BEST Cheap Classic Fiction Books...
"Heart of Darkness" is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in some individuals. It also includes: "Youth: A Narrative" and "The End of the Tether".Imprint: Wordsworth ClassicsISBN/EAN: 1853262404Format: PaperbackPagination: 240 pagesDimensions: 198 x 126 mmCountry of Pub.: United KingdomPub Date: 01/03/1995 Buy the BEST Cheap Classic Fiction Books...
Six masterpieces of the genre include title story plus "An Amateur Peasant Girl," "The Shot," "The Snowstorm," "The Postmaster," and "The Coffin-Maker all fascinating portraits of life in Tsarist Russia by one of that country's greatest poets and most influential writers.Format: Paperback BookISBN: 0486280543Publisher: Dover Publications Inc. Buy the BEST Cheap Classic Fiction Books...
Incisive, masterfully written tales, set in Tsarist Russian milieux, reveal noted author's skills in character, nuance, and setting development. Includes "The Black Monk" (1894), "The House with the Mezzanine" (1896), "The Peasants" (1897), "Gooseberries" (1898), and "The Lady with the Toy Dog" (1899).Format: Paperback BookISBN: 0486264637Publisher: Dover Publications Inc. Buy the BEST Cheap Classic Fiction Books...
Gregor Samsa awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a repulsive bug. Trapped inside this hideous form, his mind remains unchanged - until he sees the shocked reaction of those around him and begins to question the basis of human love and, indeed, his entire purpose in existence. But this, it seems, is only the beginning of his ordeal.Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." Paperback: 96 pages Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.; New edition (26 Aug 1996) Language English ISBN-10: 0486290301 Buy the BEST Cheap Classic Fiction Books...
This book comes with an introduction and notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature.This volume also includes Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, "The Merry Men" and Other Tales and Fables. "The Merry Men" is a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks and madness; "Markheim", the sinister study of the mind of a murderer; "Thrawn Janet", a spine-chilling tale of demonic possession; "Olalla", a study of degeneration and incipient vampirism in the Spanish mountains; "Will O'the Mill", a thought-provoking fable about a mountain inn-keeper; and "The Treasure of Franchard", a study of French bourgeois life.Imprint: Wordsworth ClassicsISBN/EAN: 1853260614Format: PaperbackPagination: 256 pagesDimensions: 198 x 126 mmCountry of Pub.: United KingdomPub Date: 07/07/1993 Buy the BEST Cheap Ghost and Horror Books...
Selected and with an introduction by David Stuart Davies, this gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by "The Ring of Thoth" to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in "The Captain of the Polestar", we encounter a monstrous creature in "The Terror of Blue John Cap" and the beings that live above our heads in "The Brazilian Cat" and "The Leather Funnel"; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in Lot 249.Paperback: 224 pagesPublisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd (24 April 2008)Language EnglishISBN-10: 1840220783 Buy the BEST Cheap Ghost and Horror Books...
This title is edited, along with an introduction, by David Stuart Davies. "Nothing is so improbable as what is true". Of all the writers of ghost and horror stories, Ambrose Bierce is perhaps the most colourful. He was a dark, cynical and pessimistic soul who had a grim vision of fate and the unfairness of life, which he channelled into his fiction. And in his death, or rather his disappearance, he created a mystery as strange and unresolved as any that he penned himself.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce was born in a log cabin on 21st June 1842, in Horse Creek, Meigs County, Ohio, USA. He was the tenth of thirteen children, ten of whom survived infancy. His father, an unsuccessful farmer with an unseemly love of literature, had given all the Bierce children names beginning with 'A'. There was Abigail, the eldest; then Amelia, Ann, Addison, Aurelius etc. So oddness was a part of Bierce's life from the beginning. Poverty and religion of the extreme variety were the two chief influences on young Ambrose's childhood. He not only hated this period of his life, he also developed a deep hatred for his family and this is reflected in some of his stories which depict families preying on and murdering one another. For example, the unforgettable opening sentence of "An Imperfect Conflagration" seems to sum up his bitter attitude: 'Early in 1872, I murdered my father - an act that made a deep impression on me at the time'.Paperback: 304 pagesPublisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd (10 Sep 2006)Language EnglishISBN-10: 1840225343 Buy the BEST Cheap Ghost and Horror Books...
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane. Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Published: 01 March 1996 ISBN:1853261017
This collection of over forty of Anderson's most popular stories includes "The Ugly Duckling", "The Red Shoes", and "The Little Match Girl." The highest standards in editing and production have been applied to the Wordsworth Children's Classics, while the low price makes them affordable for everyone. Wordsworth's list covers a range of the best-loved stories for children, from nursery tales, classic fables, and fairy tales to stories that will appeal to older children and adults alike. Many of these volumes have contemporary illustrations, and while they are ideal for shared family reading, their attractive format will also encourage children to read for themselves. Like all Wordsworth Editions, these children's books represent unbeatable value. Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Published: 01 March 1996 ISBN:1853261009
'In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged...' Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as "Mary Barton" (1848) but she also wrote some fascinating tales of the supernatural and the macabre, which are collected here in this volume. The real charm of this dark anthology is its variety. Unlike so many writers of this kind of material, Gaskell allows the story to fit the style rather than the other way around and as result there is a charming freshness to each tale. This remarkable author uses different voices, tones and topics to engage her readers and as you turn from one story to the next you cannot be quite sure what to expect.Paperback: 320 pagesPublisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd (5 Sep 2008)Language EnglishISBN-10: 1840220953 Buy the BEST Cheap Ghost and Horror Books...
This book comes with an introduction by John S Whitley, University of Sussex. After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in "The Adventure of the Empty House". This is the second of three volumes of "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" reproduced from original copies of "The Strand Magazine".Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdPublished: 06 September 1995Format: Paperback 336 pages Other Sherlock Holmes books are available here too:The Hound of the BaskervillesThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThe Casebook of Sherlock HolmesThe Return of Sherlock Holmes
This collection contains works by such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Gaskell, Dickens and M.R. James, alongside that of anonymous authors from Britain to America. It brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales.Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdPublished: 01 September 2002Format: Paperback 272 pages Buy the BEST Cheap Ghost and Horror Books...
Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Seminal work introduced moral, religious, political and social themes that dominated Dostoyevsky's later masterworks. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction. Paperback: 96 pages Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.; New edition (20 Jul 1992) Language English ISBN-10: 048627053X Buy the BEST Cheap Classic Fiction Books...
This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories, reprinted from "The Strand Magazine". It contains "The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes", "The Valley of Fear", "His Last Bow" and the last 12 stories of "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes"Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdPublished: 01 April 1995Format: Paperback 480 pages Other Sherlock Holmes books are available here too:The Hound of the BaskervillesThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThe Casebook of Sherlock HolmesThe Return of Sherlock Holmes
With an Introduction by Dr. Julian Wolfreys This edition of The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes contains the earliest cases of the greatest fictional detective of all time. It comprises the complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, newly reprinted from the original text of The Strand Magazine. It is illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest of illustrators, and the man from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive. This is the first of three volumes of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. The three books present all the Holmes stories arranged chronologically in order of first publication.Format: Paperback 528 pagesPublisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdISBN: 1853262730Other Sherlock Holmes books are available here too:The Hound of the BaskervillesThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThe Casebook of Sherlock HolmesThe Return of Sherlock Holmes
The science fiction stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stand alongside those of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. The protagonist, the 'cave-man in a lounge suit', is the maddening, irascible and fascinating Professor George Edward Challenger. In these collected tales he faces adventures such as that high above the Amazon rain forest in "The Lost World" and the challenges of "The Land of Mist".Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdPublished: 01 April 1995Format: Paperback 480 pages Buy the BEST Cheap Classic Fiction Books...
Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last."The Whisperer in Darkness" brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Included in this volume are several early tales, along with the classics "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Dunwich Horror" and "At the Mountains of Madness". Arm yourself with a copy of Abdul Alhazred's fabled Necronomican and prepare to face terrors beyond the wildest imaginings of all save H.P. Lovecraft.Paperback: 384 pagesPublisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd (10 Feb 2007)Language EnglishISBN-10: 1840226080 Buy the BEST Cheap Ghost and Horror Books...
This collection of 100 of O Henry's finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America's best and best-loved short story writers. The variety of the stories is amazing; O Henry is as at home describing life south of the Rio Grande as he is chronicling the activities and concerns of 'the four million' ordinary citizens who inhabited turn-of-the-century New York. They are marked by coincidence and surprise endings as well as the compassion and high humour that have made O Henry's stories popular for the last century.Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdPublished: 01/03/1995Format: Paperback 752 pages Buy the BEST Cheap Classic Fiction Books...
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