Classic works of literature with a clean, modern aesthetic! Perfect for both old and new literature fans, the Word Cloud Classics series from Canterbury Classics provides a chic and inexpensive introduction to timeless tales. With a higher production value, including heat burnished covers and foil stamping, these eye-catching, easy-to-hold editions are the perfect gift for students and fans of literature everywhere.
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 | Brighten the season with tales from the master of Christmastime fiction.Charles Dickens’ most famous holiday story was the 1843 publication, A Christmas Carol, but he was a prolific writer in the yuletide genre and a great contributor to many now-prevalent traditions of the holiday itself. In the year following the release… | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
 | Frances Hodgson Burnett | It’s riches to rags for Sara Crewe, the pampered but generous child of a widowed British officer. When her father dies penniless, Sara becomes a cold and hungry drudge at Miss Minchin’s boarding school.This edition is part of the beautiful WordCloud Classics series of imitation leather-bound classics. We believe classics… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | All the “muchness” of Wonderland is captured in one book!Follow Alice down the rabbit hole to Wonderland and enjoy tea with the Mad Hatter, find your way with the Cheshire Cat, and play croquet with the Queen of Hearts. On the other side of the looking-glass, meet Tweedledee and Tweedledum… | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
 | L.M. Montgomery | Anne Shirley is skinny, red-haired, and never stops talking — and she is a girl. The Cuthberts, who had meant to adopt a boy to help them on the farm, are both exasperated and entertained by her constant chatter and romantic imaginings. But they soon find it hard to remember… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | A classic tale of adventure from renowned French author Jules Verne.Originally published in 1872, Around the World in Eighty Days imagined for readers the possibility of circumnavigating the world when the prospect of such a feat was still in its infancy. After an argument with colleagues at London’s Reform Club, the wealthy… | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
 | Anna Sewell | “Where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God’s mark.” –Anna Sewell, Black BeautyAnna Sewell’s 1877 classic, Black Beauty, is considered to be one of the foremost works in animal welfare literature and a leading work in the children’s… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre is Charlotte Bronte’s most enduring masterpiece, the unforgettable tale of an orphan girl’s ardent search for a wider and richer life. Originally published in 1847, it was an immediate popular success, but it also caused a storm of controversy. Bronte’s firm insistence on the equality of the sexes… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Hugo, Victor | Les Miserables is a classic tale of redemption, exploring the complex interplay of mercy and justice. Jean Valjean, a recently paroled criminal, encounters the life-changing power of grace through a saintly bishop’s sacrificial love. His life is profoundly transformed, but his criminal past haunts him as he is pursued by… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Alcott, Louisa May | Follow the adventures of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, in this much-loved classic tale. The sisters fall into one scrape after another, as tempers flare, illness strikes and their lives are filled with new experiences and loves. Based on Louisa May Alcott’s own life experiences, Little Women gives… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Melville, Herman | First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Cather, Willa | Travel to the Old West with Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather.Willa Cather’s novels brought the life of American settlers on the Great Plains to the forefront of the nation’s consciousness during a time when the lands west of the Mississippi were undergoing rapid transformation. My Ántonia, considered by many scholars to… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Austen, Jane | Austen’s comedy of manners–one of the most popular novels of all time–features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of 18-century drawing-room intrigues.This edition is part of the beautiful WordCloud Classics series of imitation… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Meet the boy who can find trouble without even looking. At school, at home, in church and outdoors, if there’s mischief afoot, Tom Sawyer will be in the thick of it! 320 pages.This edition is part of the beautiful WordCloud Classics series of imitation leather-bound classics. We believe classics deserve… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
 | Kipling, Rudyard | “For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack,” –Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle BookPenned by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling in 1894, The Jungle Book is a collection of allegorical stories that take place deep in the Indian jungle. The most famous stories of The… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | “No archer ever lived that could speed a gray goose shaft with such skill and cunning as his, nor were there ever such yeomen as the sevenscore merry men that roamed with him through the greenwood shades. Right merrily they dwelt within the depths of Sherwood Forest, suffering neither care… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
 | Dickinson, Emily | “This is my letter to the world . . .” — Emily DickinsonThe Poetry of Emily Dickinson is a collection of pieces by 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, who insisted that her life of isolation gave her an introspective and deep connection with the world. As a result, her work parallels… | Literature ⋅ Poetry | |
 | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle’s gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Stevenson, Robert Louis | Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map that will lead him to the fabled Treasure Island. But a host of villains, wild beasts and deadly savages stand between him and the stash… | Literature ⋅ Classics |