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 ni......
Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour,University of Kent at Canterbury The proverbial phrase life s little ironies was coined by Hardy for his t......
Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens’ comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author"s deve......
内容简介Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with......
The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century ph......
The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story forwhich Henry lames is best remembered. Set in anEnglish country house, it is a chilling tale of the......
The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series Presents a newly-editde sequence of William Shakespeare’s works。The textual editing takes account of recen......
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drarna are irnplied rather th......
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,Gentleman took fiction into unknown realms,combining an entirely new concept in form with an idiosyncratic ty......
First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the nove......
Charlotte Bronte was a natural story-teller with a gift for creating memorable characters and for evoking atmosphere. The novel is set among the cloth......
Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France s......
One of Sir Walter Scott's most celebrated novels,Rob Roy is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first l......
Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alt......
The Swiss Family Robinson is a story of the happy discovery of the wonders of natural history by a family shipwrecked on a desert island, who remain u......
The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906)are world famous animal stories.Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s,The Cal......
In this novel, symptomatic of Lawrence's later work, Kate Leslie, an Irish widow visiting Mexico, finds herself equally repelled and fascinated by wha......
内容简介《Jane Eyre(简爱)》讲述了这样一个故事：简·爱自幼父母双亡，投靠冷酷的舅母，但舅母无情地抛弃了她。她在一所慈善学校做了六年的学生和两年的教师。十八岁时，简·爱受聘到桑菲尔德府学当家庭教师，认识了主人罗切斯特。两人都被对方独特的气质和丰富的感情所吸引，于是不顾身份和地位的巨大差距深深......
Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus,Greek warrior,as the strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after......
内容简介弗•司各特•菲茨拉德(F.Scott Fitzgerald ，1896——1940)是二十世纪美国著名作家,"迷惘一代"的代表作家,短暂一生中只写有为数不多的几部作品，《了不起的盖茨比》是作家最具代表性的作品。 Book DescriptionThe Wordsworth Classics ......
