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By: Beatrix Potter

ISBN: 9781840227246
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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The second of two volumes which contain the complete collection of Beatrix Potter's much-loved tales.


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By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN: 9781853267482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1998
UK Publication Date: 5th June 1998
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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David Stuart Davies' selection of the best stories of the master sleuth


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By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN: 9781853260704
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1995
UK Publication Date: 5th November 1995
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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These two fascinating sets of stories, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow, make a glorious farewell to the greatest detective of them all and his erstwhile companion, Dr Watson.


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By: Thomas Hardy

ISBN: 9781853264023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1994
UK Publication Date: 9th May 1994
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of Thomas Hardy. Hardy's poetry spanned over 50 years from the last half of the 19th century to the period after World War I, and ranges from pessimistic works to those which were witty and fanciful.


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By: W.B. Yeats

ISBN: 9781853264542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2000
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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This volume includes all of Yeats's published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics by which he is still best remembered, to the later work which some argue put beyond question his status as one of the foremost poets of his age.


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By: William Wordsworth

ISBN: 9781853264016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1994
UK Publication Date: 5th January 1994
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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This full edition of Wordsworth's poetical works shows how the poet was much influenced by the events of the French revolution in his youth, breaking away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical traditions of the 18th century.


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By: Hector Hugh Munro

ISBN: 9781853260711
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1993
UK Publication Date: 5th September 1993
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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The extraordinary stories of 'Saki' are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried.


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By: G.K. Chesterton

ISBN: 9781853260032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1992
UK Publication Date: 5th May 1992
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Father Brown first made his appearance in "The Innocence of Father Brown" in 1911. This collection contains all of the Father Brown stories, showing thr quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner.


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By: E.F. Benson

ISBN: 9781840226737
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2011
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, 'as by right divine' rules over the toy kingdom of 'Riseholme' based on the Cotswold village of Broadway. Her long-suffering husband Pepino is 'her prince-consort', the outrageously camp Georgie is her 'gentleman-in-waiting', and the village green is her 'parliament'.


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By: E.F. Benson

ISBN: 9781840226744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2011
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye).


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By: John Keats

ISBN: 9781853264047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1994
UK Publication Date: 5th January 1994
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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This collection comprises the works of John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and contemporary of Byron and Shelley. The collection includes "Endymion", "Lamia", "Isabella" and "Hyperion".


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By: Walt Whitman

ISBN: 9781853264337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1995
UK Publication Date: 5th April 1995
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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This collection contains the poetic works of Walt Whitman. These poems reflect the vitality of a new nation and the vastness of its lands. They combine autobiographical, sociological and religious themes but did not conform to previous genres.


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By: John Buchan

ISBN: 9781840226553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2010
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Here are all five of the adventures featuring Richard Hannay, the hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps.


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By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9781840224535
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2004
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Tolstoy wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time.


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By: Edward Gibbon

ISBN: 9781853264993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1998
UK Publication Date: 5th September 1998
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Published between 1776 and 1788, this text is acknowledged as a masterpiece of English historical writing. Covering the history of Europe from the 2nd-century AD, to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, this edition includes footnotes, explanatory comments, and a precis of the chapters not included.


(Paperback, UK ed.)

By: Charles Darwin

ISBN: 9781840226980
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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The Descent of Man is Darwins second book, first published in 1871. In this edition, Darwin applies evolutionary theory to humans and details his theory of sexual selection.


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By: George Grossmith

ISBN: 9781853262012
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1994
UK Publication Date: 5th May 1994
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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The diary is that of someone who acknowledges that he is not a "somebody" - Charles Pooter, a clerk in the city of London, chronicles with often hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle classes during the great Victorian Age.


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By: Dante Alighieri

ISBN: 9781840221664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2009
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Writing his "Comedy" (the epithet "Divine" was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman.


(Paperback, Revised and expanded)

By: Aleister Crowley

ISBN: 9781840227345
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley. Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Of the fifty-two stories in the present volume, only thirty were published in his lifetime


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By: Edith Nesbit

ISBN: 9781853261299
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Feb 1994
UK Publication Date: 5th February 1994
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover the Sleeping Princess at the centre of the maze, astonishing things begin to happen.


(Paperback, UK ed.)

By: David Hume

ISBN: 9781840226669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2011
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Morris David Hume (1711-1776) was the one of the important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This title contains his major philosophical works.


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By: John Galsworthy

ISBN: 9781840224382
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2002
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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The Forsyte Saga comprises of The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let, produced in a single volume.


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By: John Maynard Keynes

ISBN: 9781840227475
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2017
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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John Maynard Keynes is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the 20th century. He ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched.


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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9781853260414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1992
UK Publication Date: 5th May 1992
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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A summary of the "roaring twenties", and a expose of the "Jazz Age", this book, through the narration of Nick Carraway, takes the reader into the world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.

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