Series: Wordsworth classics

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"

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 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...

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.

This is an analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the first Reform Bill of 1832. It is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid 1...

From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. When Maggie is cast out by Tom, she is ostracized by society, and must face the consequences of r...

This novel tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner, a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England, and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. It is a tender tale of sin and repentance set in a rural world.

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

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.