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The Complete Father Brown Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)
G. K. Chesterton
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998
A priestly paradox: crime meets the cleric.
In the genre of the finely crafted English detective story, Chesterton's "Father Brown" stories are wholesome and stimulating detective tales surpassed by few others, except perhaps Doyle's legendary Sherlock Holmes. In contrast to the arrogant Holmes, however, ...
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The Prophet (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics)
Kahlil Gibran
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997
Eight Decades Later: Still Relevant, Insightful and Eloquent
These days, Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet" often gets dismissed as "hippie" literature. Yet, this book had been a bestseller LONG before the 1960s. Originally published in 1923, it almost instantly became a hit and even did well through the Great Depression. Today, ...
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Orlando (Wordsworth Classics)
Virginia Woolf
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
This Book is Still Hip -- Hard to Believe Written and Published in 1928 Edwardian England [63]
Written in 1928, this book clearly sought to shock the reading public. For every repression delivered by Victorian authorities which surely hampered Woolf's freedoms, this book delivers a defiant rebuke to the same.
Orlando - it states in the beginning - is a man ...
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Complete Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Library Collection)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2008
Sherlock Holmes can do no wrong
This is a classic. Sherlock Holmes is my favorite detective of all time and this book will have a permanent place in my library. I do not mind the small print. I love the convenience of having all his works in one volume.
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The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics)
Alexandre Dumas père
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997
A Pleasant Surprise
The only reason I picked up the book was because it was one of "those" books in the school library. You wanted to read it for the points, but everybody who picked it up gaze up and put it back down. *I* even tried to read it once and gave up. But I'm always up for a ...
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Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics)
Dostoevsky
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000
Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment ...
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The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
Rudyard Kipling
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
Enchanting
Rudyard Kipling has an amazing animal sense. He depicted the characters well and enchanted you to continue reading by keeping you in suspense about Mowgli. This is a must read book.
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Mansfield Park (Wordsworth Classics)
Jane Austen
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998
Not about imperialism or slavery
Since Edward Said wrote his foolish piece on Mansfield Park it has become de rigeur to attach agendas that reflect the intramural (ie bogus) leftism of the academy to novels (sorry texts) Even so this effort to do so in Mansfield Park is particularly outlandish. In ...
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Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics of World ...
Edward Gibbon
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This is a great read. It has absolutly everything you could hope for in a book. I loved the decline and I especially loved the fall.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
A towering, very important American classic
For whatever reasons, I'm one of those who, over the years, never gave "Uncle Tom's Cabin" much thought. I'm afraid I dismissed the book based on the derogatory cliche of describing a complacent black man as an Uncle Tom. What a pleasure to find how wrong I was.
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Fanny Hill: Memoirs Of A Woman of Pleasure (Wordsworth Classics) (Wadsworth Classics)
John Cleland
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2001
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland's open celebration of sexual enjoyment was a best selling novel. Fanny's story, as she falls into prostitution ...
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Wordsworth Reference)
H. W. Fowler
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997
The standard to which all the others are compared
It is somewhat amazing that this book, first published in 1926, is still in print. The language has changed quite a bit since then; thousands of words have been added, hundreds have gone obsolete, and hundreds more have had their meanings shaded; and of course many of ...
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The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth (Wordsworth Collection)
William Wordsworth
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998
Five Stars for the poetry, but One Star for. . .
this edition.
The Wordsworth Poetry Library offers some decent printings of the works of any number of poets for fantastic prices. These editions may not be of the best quality, but that's okay for most of the books in the collection. However, when it comes to ...
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Wuthering Heights (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
Emily Bronte
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997
very intense
The outdated writing style takes a little getting used to, but once you do, it's good. It's incredible to me how the author, with her unusually limited experience of the outside world, who probably never had a boyfriend or lover in her life and lived a secluded life in ...
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Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Special Editions) (Wordsworth Royals Series)
William Shakespeare
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997
Good ol' William
It's taken me years to read plenty of Shakespeare, and there will probably always be something to read. He is the master of the drama and comedy.
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