The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. 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...

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...

‘As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved…It was good, good, good…’ Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents – a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into...

Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's corruption and delay,...

At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's death...

Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success are thwart with disappointment but together they attempt to find a way to happiness.

Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and moral...

Szatan we własnej osobie, ekscentrycznie ubrany Korowiow, gadatliwy kot Behemot , Asasello z kurzym udkiem w kieszeni marynarki i rudowłosa wiedźma Hella. Woland – wraz ze swą świtą - dokona niemałego zamieszania, gdy pojawi się w Moskwie. Ale czego spodziewać się po kimś, kto jadł śniadanie z samym Immanuelem Kantem, choć ten – gdy rozgrywa się akcja powieści - nie żyje od ponad stu lat…?...

CZYTAJ WCIĄGAJĄCĄ POWIEŚĆ W ORYGINALE I UCZ SIĘ ANGIELSKIEGO! Kiedy mały Heathcliff trafia z ulicy do zamożnej rodziny Earnsharów, pomiędzy nim a Cathy pojawia się wyjątkowa więź. Z czasem przeradza się w uczucie, które staje się tak silne, że para przestaje przejmować się konwenansami oraz zdaniem innych. Bohaterowie płacą za swoją miłość najwyższą cenę, a za ich błędy będzie musiało...

Experience the internet's most talked-about book, now a major motion picture, from Anna Todd, the writer Cosmopolitan called “the biggest literary phenomenon of her generation.” Now a Major Motion Picture on Netflix! There was the time before Tessa met Hardin, and then there’s everything AFTER... Life will never be the same. #Hessa     Tessa is a good girl with a sweet,...

W 80 dni dookoła świata to najpopularniejsza powieść francuskiego pisarza Juliusza Verne’a, swoją premierę miała w 1873 roku. Należy do cyklu powieściowego Niezwykłe podróże. Akcja książki rozpoczyna się w XIX-wiecznym Londynie. Phileas Fogg tajemniczy, angielski dżentelmen wiedzie monotonne, samotne i uporządkowane życie, do czasu, gdy założył się z kolegami o to, że w osiemdziesiąt dni...

Język angielski Poziom B2-C1 Lubisz czytać dobre powieści a jednocześnie chcesz doskonalić swój angielski? Mamy dla Ciebie idealne połączenie! Klasyka literatury światowej w wersji do nauki języka angielskiego. CZYTAJ – SŁUCHAJ - ĆWICZ CZYTAJ – dzięki oryginalnemu angielskiemu tekstowi Sense and Sensibility przyswajasz nowe słówka, uczysz się ich zastosowania w zdaniach i poszerzasz...

Gdy Serena zaczyna pracę jako stewardessa, jej związek z Gregiem zostaje wystawiony na próbę. Kiedy pewnego dnia lot powrotny z Pragi do Londynu zostaje odwołany, znużona wyrzutami Grega Serena postanawia odwiedzić Phila, swojego dawnego nauczyciela muzyki, obecnie znanego pianistę. Spotkanie wzbudza w obojgu niepohamowaną falę pożądania... Serena&s Nocturnes to powieść erotyczna dla...

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out...

From the bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGOTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Thank you Taylor Jenkins Reid for the escapism we all need- a sex-on-the-beach cocktail (quite literally) of a book' PANDORA SYKES'I LOVE it . . . I can't remember the last time I read a book that was so fun' DOLLY ALDERTON'It's 365 pages of pure exhilaration'...

Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the...

Throughout his life George Orwell aimed, in his words, to make 'political writing into an art'. This collection brings together the best of his matchless political essays and journalism with his timeless satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm. It includes articles on subjects from the corruption of language to the oppressive British Empire; his masterly wartime Socialist polemic, 'The Lion...

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 new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted...

Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England’s national identity. Today, to some of us, Richard II may appear conservative; but, in Shakespeare’s day, it could appear subversive: ‘I am Richard II’, declared...

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