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Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
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Category: Courtney's Recommendations | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exup ry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world ...Show more
Little Women by L. M. ALCOTT
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
The beautiful 150th anniversary edition of Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of the four March sisters, featuring new illustrations and an introduction by New York Times bestselling author J. Courtney Sullivan For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March ...Show more
Moby Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'. Moby Dickis the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabo ...Show more
Norse Myths & Legends: Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: Reference | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Beautiful edition with a new introduction to the origins of Thor and Loki, Odin and Freya, the gods and giants of the Vikings, highlighting the origins of modern fiction in myth and fable. Gorgeous Collector's Edition. From the legends of Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya and all the gods of Asgard come the 'The ...Show more
Oliver Twist (Collector's Edition) by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers.With Oliver Twisthis reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, despe ...Show more
Peter Pan by J. M. BARRIE
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust" When Peter Pan loses his shadow in the Darling children's nursery, things will never be the same again... ----- Over the rooftops of London, Peter Pan and the fairy Tinkerbell lead Wendy, Michael and John Darling to Neverland to start a new lif ...Show more
Picture of Dorian Gray by OSCAR WILDE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature -- "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife". Its manuscript was initially called First Impressions, but was never pub ...Show more
Secret Garden by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes acros ...Show more
Tess of the d'Urbevilles by THOMAS HARDY
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Thomas Hardy, never one to be conventional, took a very unconventional moral stance in this novel, which shocked Victorian readers. In doing so, he created one of the great romantic novels of all time, the story of a striking and tragic character who came to life for the reader as she did for the author ...Show more
The Railway Children (Cloth-bound HB) by E. Nesbit
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet. However, they soon come to love the ...Show more
Treasure Island (Cloth-bound HB) by R. L. STEVENSON
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow Inn. An old seadog, a resident at the inn, hires Jim to kee ...Show more