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Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the ...Show more
Histories (Wordsworth) by Herodotus
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: very good
Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith. Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilom ...Show more
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and ...Show more
Little Red Riding Hood by Grimm Brothers; Joy Cowley (retold)
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Category: Picture Paperbacks | Series: World Classics
The sweet and kind Little Red Riding Hood sets off through the woods to her sick grandmother's hosue with a basket of food. On the way, she forgets her mother's instructions not to wander off the path and when she finally arrives at grandmother's house something is not quite right. Fortunately, an obser ...Show more
The Frog Prince by Grimm Brothers; Joy Cowley (retold)
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Category: Picture Paperbacks | Series: World Classics Ser.
The Brothers Grimm tale about a spoiled princess who reluctantly befriends the Frog Prince is faithfully followed in this edition. The beautiful artwork combines etching and illustration techniques.
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
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Category: Picture Paperbacks | Series: World Classics
The luminous art of three-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney transforms the nineteenth-century Danish girl of Andersen's tale into a child plucked straight from America's melting pot, shedding new light on the invisibility of the poor among the prosperous-a circumstance as familiar in Andersen ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon. His languag ...Show more
The Three Little Pigs by Joseph Jacobs; Joy Cowley (retold)
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Category: Picture Paperbacks | Series: World Classics
The Three Little Pigs is a fable about three pigs who build three houses of different materials. A big bad wolf blows down the first two pigs' houses, made of straw and wood respectively, but is unable to destroy the third pig's house, made of bricks.
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