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Frankenstein by MARY SHELLEY
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1818 first edition text of the novel, introduced and annotated by J. Paul Hunter. Three maps and eight illustrations. A wealth of source and contextual materials, thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics include "Sources, Influences, Ana ...Show more
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by MARY SHELLEY
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
A powerful masterpiece from the gothic pen of Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein is a man of science obsessed with the idea of creating life. So much so, that he creates a giant, human-like being out of a patchwork of corpses. However, on achieving his miracle, Frankenstein finds himself horrified by his ...Show more
Great Expectations (Collector's Edition) by Dickens C
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectationstraces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memo ...Show more
Great Gatsby by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge ), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsbyis F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with ...Show more
Greek Ancient Origins: Stories of People and Civilization by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: History | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
A striking companion volume to Greek Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Ancient Greek culture, from its tribal beginnings to its foundational impact on modern life. Gorgeous Collector's Edition. The period of the first Ancient Greek peoples, the Mycenean civilization, from the 1700s BCE ...Show more
Greek Myths & Legends: Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. From the birth of Zeus, to Prometheus, Pandora and Helen of Troy, Odysseus and Jason and the Argonauts, the myths of the Greeks and, later, the Romans, are passionate and powerfully told. The Gods are jealous of each other's powers, subject to mighty outbursts of love and a ...Show more
Hamlet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with ...Show more
Irish Folk & Fairy Tales: Ancient Wisdom, Fables & Folkore by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Fairy stories, especially from the fertile landscape of Ireland where the supernatural grew from the legends of the Celts, are the magic stories of everyday folk seeking solutions to the challenges of the day. This spritely new collection brings together the fables and stories of banshees, kings, trembl ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Collector's Edition) by Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart!' Orphaned at a young age, Jane Eyre is foisted upon unfriendly relations, sent to school to suffer illness, injustice and privation, before ...Show more
Japanese Ancient Origins: Stories of People and Civilization by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: History | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Beautiful edition, and companion to Japanese Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Japanese society and culture. A gorgeous Collector's Edition covering the history of Japan from the early Jomon period to the Edo. Japan has gripped the imagination of readers of their spiritual and delicate ...Show more
Japanese Myths & Legends: Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Legends of the Sea, Bells, Mirrors and Tea, Japanese mythology is delightful and enigmatic, full of spirits, gods and legendary creatures. It draws on Buddhist and Shinto traditions to explain the nature of the world of the island of Japan, the mystical Mount Fuji and the h ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. LAWRENCE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an ...Show more