Wordsworth Editions

In this week's blog, in advance of the publication of 'For the Fallen: The Poetry of the First World War', Stephen Carver focusses on five of the lesser-known poets that appear in our anthology. Read the blog here: bit.ly/5_War_Poets Details of the book can be found here: bit.ly/For_the_fallen

In this week's blog, Stephen Carver, editor of our Mystery & Supernatural series, chooses his Top Ten classic ghost stories for Halloween. What are your favourites? Attentive readers will have noticed that we have added several new books to this series in recent months, with more in the pipeline. Which authors would you like to see us publish, bearing in mind they must be out of copyright? Read the blog here: bit.ly/Top10Ghosts

In this week's blog, Dr Stephen Carver explains his choices in compiling 'Irish Ghost Stories From the Haunted 19th Century', the latest addition to our 'Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural' series, and available for £4.99 from 7 November. Read the blog: bit.ly/IrishGS_blog Book details are here: bit.ly/IrishGS

In this week's blog, Jeff Wallace looks at Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' and considers how we should read it in 2025. Re the blog here: bit.ly/Darwin_Blog Our edition, for £4.99, is here: bit.ly/OriginWWE

In this week's blog, David Ellis looks at one of Charles Dickens' most popular novels. Read the blog here: bit.ly/OCS_Blog Our edition, for £3.99, is here: bit.ly/OCS_WWE

Does it make sense to think of writing as belonging to a particular place? In this week's blog, Sally Minogue @minogue732 reflects on the influence Yorkshire has had on our national literature. Read the blog here: bit.ly/Yorkshire_Blog Our various editions of 'Wuthering Heights' can be found here: bit.ly/Wuthering_WWE

In today's blog, Sally Minogue reviews the BBC drama 'Miss Austen' which concluded last night. As Sally points out in her article, large parts of it and the book on which it was based were fictitious. Does this matter? Did this have any impact on your enjoyment of the programme? Let us know what you think. Read the blog here: bit.ly/Miss_Austen_bl… Our selection of Jane Austen editions, from £3.99 to £30 can be found here: bit.ly/Austen_WWE #MissAusten

In this week's blog, @MiaForbes1 reflects on time and nature in the poetry of Shelley. Read the blog here: bit.ly/Shelley_Blog Our edition of Shelley's selected poetry and prose, for £4.99, is here: bit.ly/Shelley_WWE

This week's blog has a seasonal theme as Sally Minogue @minogue732 looks at some of the ways that writers, such as Coleridge, Rossetti and Hardy, have drawn inspiration from winter weather. Read the blog here: bit.ly/WinterWWE_Blog

Read Sally Minogue's blog @minogue732 on Herman Melville's classic American novel, 'Moby Dick' here: bit.ly/MobyD_blog Our two editions can be found here, from £3.99: bit.ly/MobyD_WWE

‘He do the Police in different voices’ As Charles Dickens’ last complete novel, 'Our Mutual Friend', is adapted for BBC Radio 4, Sally Minogue looks at the novel’s relationship to his world and to ours. Read the blog here: bit.ly/OMF_blog2 Our edition, for £3.99, is here: bit.ly/OMF_WWE

In our blog for Halloween, Stephen Carver looks at the supernatural fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell, better known for her classic novels 'Mary Barton', 'North and South' and 'Wives and Daughters'. Read it here: bit.ly/Gaskell_Blog Our edition of Gaskell's 'Tales of Mystery and the Macabre' for £4.99 can be found here: bit.ly/TMM_WWE #halloween2024

Best known as the author of the classic novel, 'The Awakening', Kate Chopin also wrote many highly-rated short stories. In today's blog, Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at two of them. Read it here: bit.ly/Chopin_Blog Our edition of 'The Awakening and Selected Stories', for £3.99, can be found here: bit.ly/Chopin_WWE

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes story, 'A Study in Scarlet', in 1887, but he was still writing them into the 1920s. In this week's blog, Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at three of stories that are having their centenary this year. Read the blog here: bit.ly/SH2024_Blog Our full range of Sherlock Holmes titles can be seen here: bit.ly/DoyleWWE

In this final blog on a trio of great Russian novels, Sally Minogue suggests reasons for thinking that Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is the greatest of the three. Read the blog here: bit.ly/AK_Blog Our edition, for £3.99, is here: bit.ly/AK_WWE

'The Idiot' is the novel in which Dostoevsky attempted the difficult experiment of creating a central character who embodied goodness. In this week's blog Sally Minogue looks at the resulting fiction. Read it here: bit.ly/Idiot_Blog Our new Dostoevsky box set can be found here: bit.ly/Dostoevsky_WWE

Continuing our short series on Russian Literature, in this week's blog, Sally Minogue has a look Turgenev's 'Father and Sons' in its contemporary context, and at the novel as we might read it today. Read the blog here: bit.ly/Turgenev_Blog Our edition of the book, for £3.99, is here: bit.ly/Turgenev_WWE

Anyone who has glanced to our Top 10 Bestseller lists in recent years will be aware of just how popular Russian literature is, both here and in the United States. In this week's blog, Sally Minogue sets the scene for an upcoming trio of blogs on Russian Classics: 'Fathers and Sons', 'The Idiot' and 'Anna Karenina'. Read the blog here: bit.ly/RussianLit_Blog

In this week's blog, Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at one of Henry James' finest works, 'The Aspern Papers'. Read the blog here: bit.ly/Aspern_Blog Our edition, for £3.99 (and including 'The Turn of the Screw') is here: bit.ly/Aspern_WWE

“Half the new building will be dedicated to Boris Johnson alone.” Oh this is joyous. Electoral street art, just spotted in Oxford. Planning permission for a new wing at the Bodleian Library. Enjoy 🔥🔥🔥