Authors:William Wordsworth,  Jonathan Wordsworth,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: part, prelude, poems, abbey, tintern, wordsworth, pedlar, william
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 1985-01-31
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521319374
ISBN-13: 9780521319379

This volume is an excellent introduction to Wordsworth’s poetry. His great autobiographical poem The Prelude runs to thirteen books in the text of 1805. But by 1799 the poet had already written a version covering his childhood and adolescence in under a thousand lines. This complete, self-contained work includes most of the beautiful poetry that has made the longer Prelude famous. The text of this two-part Prelude has been in print since 1973 but has not until now been readily available. It is prefaced by two poems that form a natural introduction: The Pedlar, the poet’s first auto

Author: Variou
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, editions, special, classic, book, erotica
Number of Pages: 1488
Published: 2007-04-10
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1840222719
ISBN-13: 9781840222715

A sensational assembly of salacious stories selected from the secret shelves of the libraries of libertines, long-gone gentlemen, rakes and roues. These pages are patinated with the pulsating passion of vigorous youths, willing wenches, innocent initiates, meddling madames and vicarious voyeurs. The passionate participants, the actors and actresses of these romances, the heroes and heroines of these tales all seem to need little encouragement to indulge in their ribald and riotous recreation. Few avenues of amorous adventure and exotic experiment will be left unexplored. Here some great and so

Author: Wilkie Colli
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, collection, classics, woman
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1998-01-05
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1853260770
ISBN-13: 9781853260773

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Scott Brewster, University of Central Lancashire Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in North London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. The intricate plot is peopled with a finely characterised cast, from the peevish invalid Mr Fairlie to the corpulent villain Count Fosco and the enigmatic woman herself.

Author: Charlotte Bronte
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, collection, classics, shirley
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1853260649
ISBN-13: 9781853260643

The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman’s role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society’s expectations. The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchisement, the drama of Luddite machine-breaking, and the divisive effects of the Napoleonic Wars. But Charlotte Bront’s particular strength lies in exploring the hidden psychological drama of love, loss and t

Author: Vatsyayana
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, classics, classic, kama, sutra
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1999-12-05
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 185326606X
ISBN-13: 9781853266065

The Kama Sutra (the ’science of love’) is one of the world s greatest books. Written between the 1st and 4th centuries AD, it is a magnificent treatise on sexual conduct and erotic technique. Its purpose is not simply to provide a menu for the sensual epicure or a training programme for the sexual athlete, but to comment on the situations in which men and women encounter, and to deal with them in such a way as to achieve personal fulfilment through ecstasy. This edition contains the classic translation by Sir Richard Burton, first published in 1883.

Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, collection, classics, leagues, sea
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1853260312
ISBN-13: 9781853260315

Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the ’Father of Science Fiction’, but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole.

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: wordsworth, collection, classics, vanity, fair
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 1998-01-05
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1853260193
ISBN-13: 9781853260193

With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull Thackeray’s upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled ’A Novel without a Hero’, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.