Series: Wordsworth classics

Based on the author's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, this work presents a tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.

Set in a provincial town in the early 19th century, 'Wives and Daughters', Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is a subtle representation of historical change explored in human terms.

This collection contains the earliest cases of the fictional detective. It comprises 'A Study in Scarlet', 'The Sign of Four' and the complete 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', reprinted from the 'Strand Magazine'.

This is Dickens' first novel and introduces the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew and follows their adventures. It is widely regarded as one of the most famous of pre-Victorian novels.

This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories, reprinted from "The Strand Magazine". It contains "The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes", "The Valley of Fear", "His Last Bow" and the last 12 stories of "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes"