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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Wordsworth Library Collection)
Jane Austen
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2007
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Complete Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Library Collection)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2008
Sherlock Holmes can do no wrong
This is a classic. Sherlock Holmes is my favorite detective of all time and this book will have a permanent place in my library. I do not mind the small print. I love the convenience of having all his works in one volume.
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Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics of World ...
Edward Gibbon
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This is a great read. It has absolutly everything you could hope for in a book. I loved the decline and I especially loved the fall.
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Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics)
Dostoevsky
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000
Crime and Punishment = Great!
I love this book. It is hard to get through the first half, but after that it is just amazing. Everything you thought was meaningless isn't. This is a must read.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot (Mystery & Supernatural) (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) (Tales of ...
David Stuart Davies
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2008
It's 1895 again.
This collection is described by the editor as "... a new batch of twenty adventures ... to fascinate and entertain you." The recent appearances of several assemblages of Sherlockian tales constructed around one theme or another have tended to jade the palates of ...
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Collected Ghost Stories (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural)
M.R. James
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2007
SPIFFING!
I wonder whether Mr John Major (remember him?) has read these stories. They are the English of the English (more than you could say for him I guess) and evoke the sort of idealised tranquil Albion that I suppose he was harking after when he tried to present a vision of ...
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Orlando (Wordsworth Classics)
Virginia Woolf
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
This Book is Still Hip -- Hard to Believe Written and Published in 1928 Edwardian England [63]
Written in 1928, this book clearly sought to shock the reading public. For every repression delivered by Victorian authorities which surely hampered Woolf's freedoms, this book delivers a defiant rebuke to the same.
Orlando - it states in the beginning - is a man ...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
A towering, very important American classic
For whatever reasons, I'm one of those who, over the years, never gave "Uncle Tom's Cabin" much thought. I'm afraid I dismissed the book based on the derogatory cliche of describing a complacent black man as an Uncle Tom. What a pleasure to find how wrong I was.
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The Complete Father Brown Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)
G. K. Chesterton
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998
A priestly paradox: crime meets the cleric.
In the genre of the finely crafted English detective story, Chesterton's "Father Brown" stories are wholesome and stimulating detective tales surpassed by few others, except perhaps Doyle's legendary Sherlock Holmes. In contrast to the arrogant Holmes, however, ...
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The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics)
Alexandre Dumas père
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997
A Pleasant Surprise
The only reason I picked up the book was because it was one of "those" books in the school library. You wanted to read it for the points, but everybody who picked it up gaze up and put it back down. *I* even tried to read it once and gave up. But I'm always up for a ...
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100 Selected Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
O. Henry
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997
MASTER OF THE IRONIC TWIST!
O. Henry began writing short stories as a prison inmate, and he quickly fine tuned his skills behind the bars and developed into an excellent story-teller. The distinctive characteristic of O. Henry's short stories is the ironic twist at the end, which never fails ...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)
David Stuart Davies
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2007
it was bound to be, i suppose
having read mr.davies's excellent "the tangled skien", possibly the best holmes-dracula treatment yet created, i was intrigued some time ago by the possibility of a "holmes in zenda" story, which, as readers may recall, was briefly suggested in a footnote in "the seven ...
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Wordsworth Classics)
Lewis Carroll
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
Thanks for the prompt service
So glad to have this book for my library - not sure if I ever read it as a child, but I'm looking forward to reading it this summer at the beach!
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Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics)
Henry Fielding
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
Hilarious, satiric classic
This is one of the best books I've ever read. The plot follows the ups and downs of Tom's fortunes as he travels the English countryside. While this in itself is entertaining and very well crafted, what sets this book apart is the wit, humor, and observations of the ...
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Mansfield Park (Wordsworth Classics)
Jane Austen
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998
Not about imperialism or slavery
Since Edward Said wrote his foolish piece on Mansfield Park it has become de rigeur to attach agendas that reflect the intramural (ie bogus) leftism of the academy to novels (sorry texts) Even so this effort to do so in Mansfield Park is particularly outlandish. In ...
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