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  Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, "A Pure Woman", infuriated critics wh...

When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsy...

Author: Kenneth Grahame Binding: Paperback Languages: English Number Of Pages: 192 Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Details: Rat, Mole, Badger an...

Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the emergence of the schematic ironies which characterise the author's later works.

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for ...

Clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delig...

'Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes' - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study ...

Sir Walter Scott was a poet, a novelist, editor and critic, but it was as a poet that he started his career. Among his poems included here are "The...

Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Language: EnglishDetails: After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the s...

  Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author inten...

The Comedies with Introductions by Judith Buchanan These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is th...

Sir Willoughby Patterne, rich, fashionable and fatuous, is The Egoist. He pursues three women, each more discerning than he, with little thought fo...

One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least...

Tells a story set in the high society of Europe during the twenties. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her ps...

Alice Vavasour is the nominal heroine of this work. Central to the plot is her vacillation between two suitors, but this is overshadowed by the pre...

Who is John Macnab? Three Scottish landowners receive a note which tells them that he intends to poach from their estates without being caught, th...

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Three noble English brothers battle a sadistic sergeant, fight violent desert tribes in North Africa, and unravel the mystery of a stolen jewel.

From its first publication in 1816, " Rob roy" has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised c...