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Tales of Troy and Greece (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Andrew Lang
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons and the Wooden Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told. Also included in t ...Show more
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Deerslayer is the culmination of James Fenimore Cooper's 'Leather-Stocking' novels, featuring Natty Bumppo (the deer-slaying young frontiersman) and the Mohican chief, Chingachgook. Cooper portrays the hubris of the conquest of a vast territory. The action takes place during the American wars of the ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination, caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a h ...Show more
The Inferno (Divine Comedy #1) by Dante Alighieri
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: very good
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he ...Show more
The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgl ...Show more
Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the ...Show more
The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he is an undisputed master. The Man Who would be King (later adapted as a spectacular film) is a vivid narrative of exotic adventure and disaster. The other tales include the ironic, ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham. Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative P ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing 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 the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon. His languag ...Show more
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Rudolf Wyss
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This story tells of the happy discovery of the wonders of natural history by a family shipwrecked on a desert island, who remain united through all the adversities they encounter. Inspired by Robinson Crusoe, this joyful narrative by a Swiss pastor remains a classic tale to be enjoyed by all.
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Ha ...Show more