Series: Wordsworth classics

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 novel is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally-starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-19th century. It is a personal work, written from the author's own experience. Agnes Grey is a trenchant expos of the frequently i...

This work is a tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation. It brings to life and illuminates the geography, ethnology and customs of the ancient world.

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"

The diary is that of someone who acknowledges that he is not a "somebody" - Charles Pooter, a clerk in the city of London, chronicles with often hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle classes during the great Victorian Age. With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professo...

This text is the second volume of the first of the three Forsyte trilogies. It records the feud between Soames and his cousin "Young" Jolyon. The personal dramas of the Forsytes take place against the backdrop of the Boer War and the threat it poses to prosperity.

When Axel deciphers an old parchment that describes a secret passage through a volcano to the centre of the Earth, nothing will stop him and his eccentric uncle from embarking on a perilous, terrifying journey through the subterranean world.

Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passion...

The phrase 'life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Thomas Hardy as the title for this volume of short stories. This collection displays the whole range of Hardy's art as a writer of fiction, from fantasy to uncompromising realism.