Books published by publisher Gale and The British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound and music records, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 25 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.

Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored." Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.There are now 65,000 titles available (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website.

Deploying a wide range of illustrations, from manuscripts in Wordsworth's hand in The British Library, and at the Wordsworth Trust at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, to photographs, portraits and paintings in many other collections, Stephen Hebron discusses the life of a writer whose works had a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and later poets alike. He recounts how Wordsworth left his upbringing in Cumbria for Cambridge University and travelled extensively in Revolutionary France and the rest of Europe, before returning to Dove Cottage where he created some of the leading works of the Romantic period, becoming an establishment figures in his later years.