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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘…man is not truly one, but truly two.’In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Born from a nightmare and anticipating Freud’s theory of the unconscious, Stevenson literalises the concepts of the supernatural doppelgänger and the split personality in a timeless tale of guilt, desire, and violence by which all subsequent ‘double’ stories must be judged. In seeking to cleanse his soul of sin, Dr Henry Jekyll instead unleashes a monster. First published in 1886, this tragic study of the duality of man established Stevenson’s international reputation as an author. This volume also contains Stevenson’s 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, which includes a further exploration of the mind of a murderer, ‘Markheim’, and the occult tales of terror, ‘The Merry Men’, ‘Olalla’, and ‘Thrawn Janet’.

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man''s nature, and it is the book which established Stevenson''s reputation as a writer. Also included in this volume is Stevenson''s 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. The Merry Men is a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks and madness; Markheim , the sinister study of the mind of a murderer; Thrawn Janet , a spine-chilling tale of demonic possession; Olalla , a study of degeneration and incipient vampirism in the Spanish mountains; Will O'' the Mill , a thought-provoking fable about a mountain inn-keeper; and The Treasure of Franchard , a study of French bourgeois life.

DKK 79.00

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook. Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time. In the early story Family Happiness, Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife. In The Kreutzer Sonata he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown, in The Devil a powerful depiction of the power of sexual temptation, and, in perhaps the finest of all, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, he portrays the long agony of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality. This volume also includes an Introduction and Notes written specially for this Wordsworth edition by Dr Tim Cook, formely lecturer in literature at the Universities of Kingston and Ulster. Previous work contributed by Dr Cook for Wordsworth includes an introduction and notes to Charles Dickens'' Nicholas Nickleby.

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Mansfield Park - Jane Austen - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her.

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Villette - Charlotte Bronte - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Based on Charlotte Brontë''s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude. Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid social order, it is also the story of a woman''s right to love and be loved.

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The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. This novel, based on George Eliot''s own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it, and the result, on more than one level, is tragedy.

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To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf''s novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children''s perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War.

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Wuthering Heights (Heritage Collection) - Emily Bronte - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man.He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

DKK 182.00

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Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine''s father. After Mr Earnshaw''s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine''s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

DKK 120.00

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Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury. ‘When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life’. Richard Aldington This novel is Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. Lawrence’s novels are perhaps the most powerful exploration in the genre in English of family, class, sexuality and relationships in youth and early adulthood.

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Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Pride and Prejudice , which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.

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The Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers - Henry James - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre. The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe, a theme in which Henry James is at his most assured and accomplished. The author cleverly evokes the drama of comédie humaine against the settings of a Venetian palace.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (Collector's Edition) - George Orwell - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision of a world where totalitarian power is absolute.In this novel, continuously popular since its first publication, readers can explore the dark and extraordinary world he brought so fully to life. The principal characters who lead us through that world are ordinary human beings like ourselves: Winston Smith and Julia, whose falling in love is also an act of rebellion against the Party. Opposing them are the massed powers of the state, which watches its citizens on all sides through technology now only too familiar to us. No-one is free from surveillance; the past is constantly altered, so that there is no truth except the most recent version; and Big Brother, both loved and feared, controls all. Even the simple act of keeping a diary – as Winston does – is punishable by death. In Winston’s battle to keep his freedom of thought, he has a powerful adversary in O’Brien, who uses fear and pain to enter his very thought processes. Does 2+2 = 4? Or is it 5? We find out in Room 101. Nineteen Eighty-Four was Orwell’s last novel; but the world he created is always with us, as successive generations of readers find within it a mirror for their own times and a warning for the future.

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Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine''s father. After Mr Earnshaw''s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine''s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

DKK 152.00

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Middlemarch (Collector's Edition) - George Eliot - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry James described Middlemarch as a ‘treasure-house of detail’ while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot’s masterpiece as ‘one of the few English novels written for grown-up people’

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Emma - Jane Austen - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a ''heroine whom no one but myself will much like'', but Emma is irresistible. ''Handsome, clever, and rich'', Emma is also an ''imaginist'', ''on fire with speculation and foresight''. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married. Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen ironically tweaks into a clearer perspective. Judgement and imagination are matched in games the reader too can enjoy, and the end is a triumph of understanding.

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. After Sherlock Holmes'' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in The Adventures of the Empty House. The stories are illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest of illustrators, from which our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive. This is the second of three volumes of The Complete Sherlock Holmes newly typeset from the original copies of The Strand Magazine The three books present all the Holmes stories in order of first publication.

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Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy''s most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer. However, the novel is not merely a charming rural idyll. The double-plot, in which the love story of Dick Dewey and Fancy Day is inter-related with a tragic chapter in the history of Mellstock Choir, hints at the poignant disappearance of a long-lived and highly-valued traditional way of life.

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Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine''s father. After Mr Earnshaw''s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine''s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

DKK 78.00

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Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. In the hope of saving her brother''s life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Measure for Measure ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare''s problem plays. The drama shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial severity and mercy, between sexual repression and decadence, and between political vigilance and social manipulation. These problems remain topical, and, in Measure for Measure, they are given immediacy by vivid character-conflicts and memorably intense poetry. This is one of Shakespeare''s most probing and powerful works.

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Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘Fifteen men on the dead man''s chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!’ Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written. When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint''s sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails with Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Dr Livesey, the sinister Long John Silver and a frightening crew to Treasure Island. There, mutiny, murder and mayhem lead to a thrilling climax.

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Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth''s rebellion (1685). It is also a moving love story told through the life of the young farmer John Ridd, as he grows to manhood determined to right the wrongs in his land, and to win the heart and hand of the beautiful Lorna Doone. Continuously in print since its first publication in 1869, Lorna Doone has remained perennially popular with a wide readership ever since.

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Middlemarch - George Eliot - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry James described Middlemarch as a ‘treasurehouse of detail’ while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot’s masterpiece as ‘one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.

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Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and equally memorable characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Isaac of York, and his beautiful, spirited daughter Rebecca; Wamba and Gurth, jester and swineherd respectively. Scott explores the conflicts between the Crown and the powerful Barons, between the Norman overlords and the conquered Saxons, and between Richard and his scheming brother, Prince John. At the same time he brings into the novel the legendary Robin Hood and his band, and creates a brilliant, colourful account of the age of chivalry with all its elaborate rituals and costumes and its values of honour and personal glory.

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Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics'' Shakespeare''s 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. Variously melancholy, lyrical, joyous and farcical, Twelfth Night has long been a popular comedy with Shakespearian audiences. The main plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love. Both Olivia and Orsino are attracted to Viola, who is disguised as a young man; and Viola’s brother, Sebastian, finds that he is loved not only by Antonio but also by Olivia. Meanwhile, in the comic sub-plot, Sir Toby Belch and his companions outwit the vain Malvolio, who is ludicrously humiliated. While offering broad comedy, Twelfth Night teasingly probes gender-roles and sexual ambiguities.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Villette - Charlotte Bronte - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Wuthering Heights (Heritage Collection) - Emily Bronte - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers - Henry James - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Nineteen Eighty-Four (Collector's Edition) - George Orwell - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Middlemarch (Collector's Edition) - George Eliot - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Emma - Jane Austen - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Middlemarch - George Eliot - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare - Bog - Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Plusbog.dk

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