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Aesop's Fables (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Aesop
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the manger, the wolf in sheep's clothing and many others - have entered the languages and ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels,- of destiny, d ...Show more
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession. Wallace writes with a freshness and immediacy ...Show more
Bhagavad-gita by Vrindar Nabar (Formerly, Professor of English, Bombay University, India)
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Consists of the dialogue between Prince Arjuna and his mentor and friend, Lord Krishna, on the eve of the battle of Kuruksetra. This discourse contains an exposition of the Hindu philosophy of Karma Yoga as Prince Arjuna struggles with his understandable 'existential' anguish at having to join battle ag ...Show more
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies. Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead. Seen through his eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the ...Show more
Complete Father Brown Stories by G. K. CHESTERTON
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in ...Show more
English Fairy Tales (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Arthur Rackham
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, ...Show more
Jewish Antiquities by JOSEPHUS Flavius
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Whiston's translation, with an Introduction by Brian McGing. The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus represent one of the most important records of Judaism and the Jews that survive from the ancient world. The Jewish Antiquities, his largest historical enterprise, is an account in twenty books o ...Show more
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
Persuasion by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of ...Show more
Peter Pan & Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by James Matthew Barrie
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand w ...Show more