Wordsworth Editions & Other Books
For the more than thirty years Wordsworth Editions have been making great literature available at a price that all can afford. It all began back in 1992 when they created the £1 classic paperback and ever since then they have stuck to one simple principle: to produce the best quality books that they can at the lowest possible price.
We are pleased to be able to stock these high quality cloth-bound hard back editions of classic books such as
Wuthering Heights, Anne of Green Gables, The Railway Children, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Wind in the Willows, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, The Great Gatsby, Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales, The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, The Complete Works of Jane Austin and The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde.
We also source books from other companies. This month we are proud to have some lovely sets of the 'Moomintroll Books' by Tove Jansson. In our 'Charlie Bears section of the online shop we also have a beautiful 'Moomintroll' soft toy.
Tove Jansson
Tove Marika Jansson ( 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up be artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930-1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm and Paris. She held her first solo art exhibition in 1943. Over that same period, she penned short stories and articles for publication, and subsequently drew illustrations for book covers, advertisements, and postcards. She continued her work as an artist and writer for the rest of her life.
Jansson wrote the Moomin novel series for children, starting with the 1945 'The Moomins and the Great Flood.. The following two books, Coment in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, published in 1946 and 1948 respectively, were highly successful, and sales of the first book increased correspondingly.
For her work as a children's author she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966; among her many later awards was the Sekna Lagerlof Prize in 1992. Her Moomin stories have been adapted for the theatre, the cinema, and as an opera and are still as popular today
Photograph: Per Olov Jansson ©
