Wordsworth Classics

01/27/2024

04/27/2023

Desperate Remedies is the first published novel written by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) and as such is a wonderful amalgam of gothic mystery and an exploration of the themes and ideas about life, fate and the way unpredictable circumstance can dictate the path one takes through life, which were expand...

04/24/2023

The basic premise of the story of Faust is generally well known. It concerns a magician who agrees to surrender his soul to Mephistopheles, an evil spirit, for a certain period of time in exchange for otherwise unattainable knowledge and magical powers giving him access to all the world’s pleasure...

03/27/2023

The annual March 17 reminder that, to this day, no one has collected.

03/24/2023

PART TWO: ‘As being calc’lated to lead to larks!’It was inevitable that Great Expectations would eventually find its way to television, which it first did in a heavily truncated version performed live over two episodes of the NBC dramatic showcase series Robert Montgomery Presents in 1954.

03/03/2023

George Eliot’s Middlemarch is set in the period of the 1832 Reform Act and general election. Sally Minogue uncovers some similarities with the present. George Eliot’s Middlemarch is a compendious novel, generous in its sweep, with a cast of characters of near-Dickensian proportions (though Eliot...

02/14/2023

Happy Valentine’s Day from Wordsworth Classics!!🤍❤️🤍❤️

02/11/2023

When you aren’t reading your favorite book, what do you find yourself doing?
I may have a puzzle addiction thanks to

02/02/2023

✨🌧️✨ Rainy day checklist. First, warm blanket . Second, a really good book.📚 Our mystery and supernatural books are perfect for this weather.

01/26/2023

David Stuart Davies looks at the second published novel of Charlotte Brontë

01/24/2023

✨ showcased one of our Wordsworth Collectors Editions and our New Luxe Edition books so beautifully! ✨

01/20/2023

✨A beautiful flat lay by .farm.library . The collector editions are so beautiful to look at.✨