Wordsworth: 117 books

The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre. About this book: A Weekend Visit is the sequel to The Way of a Man with a Maid, also published by Wordsworth Editions. In it, Jack, the narrator both of this and...

Diary of a Scaredy Cat: a year in the life of a frightened writer Diane Wordsworth was struggling to get back into the swing of being a full-time freelance writer. She'd done it very well in the past, thank you very much. But years of editing books for various publishers had taken her out of...

The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre. About this book: The Pearl was an extraordinary subterranean magazine that had a brief life of eighteen months in the years 1879 and 1880.  It was devoted to unrestrained...

Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of  the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a  middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London  in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation. Of central importance...

Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott. ‘They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.’ From the...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a limited knowledge of her considerable life’s...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving...

The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre. About this book: The complete text of this classic Victorian sexual romp is taken from a rare copy in the Private Case of the British Library. It describes the elaborate...

The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre. About this book: Edwardian in tone and Rabelaisian in content, this underground English classic first published in 1907 relates the bawdy adventures of a young gentleman,...

The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre. About this book: When the handsome and aristocratic commander of a gunboat is shipwrecked on the coast of Morocco, he is rescued by nine beautiful ladies, the Pasha's concubines....

The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre. About this book: Frank and I, an erotic and delightful Victorian novel of hidden sexuality and erotic escapades is a classic of its genre. The narrator...

The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre. About this book: The four volumes of The Romance of Lust were issued between 1873 and 1876, and they comprise one of the longest and best erotic novels in existence. It...

Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation. Of central importance...

Twee Tales Too is a collection of fifteen short stories by Diane Wordsworth, previously Diane Parkin. Most are brand new, but some have been published before - either in the UK or in India - or have won prizes in competitions. This is the author's second volume of short stories.