The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works.The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeares most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the worlds literature. In the theatre and on screen King Lear continues to challenge and enthral. This Wordsworth edition of King Lear provides a comprehensive, integrated text of the play.

The series of which this title forms a part examines the wayin which all the major editions of Shakespeare's plays have beeninterpolated by a series of editors who have been systematicallychanging Shakespeare's texts from the 18th century onwards. Thistext looks at "Measure for Measure". --This text refers to anout of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Amazon.com Review "'No, I don't believe in ghosts, but I'm afraid of them,' is muchmore than the cheap paradox it seems to many. To 'believe,' in thatsense, is a conscious act of the intellect, and it is in the warmdarkness of the prenatal fluid far below our conscious reason thatthe faculty dwells with which we apprehend ghosts." Edith Wharton,known for her keen observations of an emotionally stiflingupper-class social world, was so afraid of ghosts that for manyyears she couldn't even sleep in a room with a book containing aghost story. As horror scholar Jack Sullivan writes, "It is thissharply felt sensation of supernatural dread filtered through askeptical sensibility that made Wharton a master of the ghoststory." This collection contains 11 of her elegant, chilling tales,including "Afterword," "The Triumph of Night," and "PomegranateSeed," plus Wharton's 1937 preface and an autobiographicalpost*. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailableedition of this title. Product De*ion

Here is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback;Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest torturedby his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony,it is a work that gives full play to the author's brilliantimagination.

With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists, Edith Wharton's characterisation and deft handling of reversals of fortune are so accomplished that Ethan Frome has remained enduringly popular since its first publication in 1911 and is considered her greatest tragic story.

With dramatic eloquence, this story of the French Revolutionbrings to life a time of terror and treason, and a starving peoplerising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadentregime.