The Wordsworth Collection is the working classics line of Wordsworth Editions, the British publisher founded in 1987 in Ware, Hertfordshire by Michael Trayler, dedicated to publishing out-of-copyright classic English-language literature in inexpensive paperback editions at a small fraction of competitor pricing. The collection includes the Wordsworth Classics, Wordsworth Classics of World Literature, Wordsworth Mystery and Supernatural, and Wordsworth Children's Classics series, covering Dickens, Austen, the Brontes, Conan Doyle, Twain, Thackeray, Trollope, Shakespeare, Verne, Wells, and other major out-of-copyright English-language and translated authors.