The adventures of huckleberry finn

Hiding from his drunken, tyrannical father, wild boy Huckleberry Finn escapes to Jackson's Island, where he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together, they hope to escape 'sivilization' by sailing a raft down the Mississippi in a last bid for freedom.

Adventures of huckleberry finn

The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. …

The idiot

Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, from the beautiful, self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna to the dangerously obsessed Rogozhin and the radical student Ippolit, The Idiot is one of Dostoevsky's most personal and intense works of fiction

The valley of fear

The Valley of Fear is the last Sherlock Holmes novel, in which Holmes and his assistant Watson finally begin to understand the threat arch-nemesis Moriarty presents. When Holmes receives a tip-off from within Moriarty's circle that a man is in danger, he and Watson rush to the victim's house. They are too late. Yet certain suspicious circumstances around the death suggest that there is a greate…

The hound of the baskervilles: a sherlock holmes adventure

Originally serialized in the Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamois Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson as they inversitgae the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose body is found on the misty and desolate Devon moors. The locals blame his death on the legend of the fearsome phantom hound that they claim has haunted the Baskerville family for ge…

A tale of two cities

It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickens?s most exciting books?a historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events…

Oliver twist

Tells the story of a poor orphan's adventures in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London.

Martin chuzzlewit

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9781853262050

Collation

762 p. ; 20

Series Title

Wordsworth classics

Call Number

SS F DIC m

A tale of two cities

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There, two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn agai…

A tale of two cities

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There, two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn agai…