The Fifth Child by Doris May Lessing
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Paladin Books
A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four chi ...Show more
Vera by Elizabeth Von Arnim
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is Wemyss's 'sweet girl', and to Lucy, Everard is the whole world. The only blot on Lucy's happiness is the shadowy figure of Wemyss's first wife, Vera, who died in mysterious circum ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: near fine
A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in "Penguin Classics". When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Perrault
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!' Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day. Pe ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The most admired of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are presented here in the original language but with spelling and annotations for modern readers. Sources and background information are included for the General Prologue and for most of the tales, enabling students to understand them in the light of releva ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a h ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination, caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a h ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Collins Classics
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Truman Capote Reader by Truman Capote
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Abacus Bks.
This omnibus contains virtually all of the author's published work and includes several short pieces that have never been published in book form. The collection is divided into six parts - short stories, novellas, travel sketches, reportage, portraits and essays.
James Joyce Reader by James Joyce; Harry Levin (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Contains the text of Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, together with the Collected Poems (including Chamber Music and Pomes Penyeach) and Joyce's only drama, Exiles. There are also episodes from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Penguin Celebrations
Matthew Kneale's "English Passengers" tells the story of an 1857 expedition to Tasmania, in search of the Garden of Eden, whose members - including a vicar and a sinister racial theorist - don't realise they are actually aboard a manx smuggling ship. Told by a score of different characters and packed wi ...Show more
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Penguin Popular Classics Ser.
A book that caused a huge sensation when it was first published in 1903, The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers is a vivid account of German preparations to invade England, released at a time when tensions between the two countries were at an all time high. Named by The Guardian newspaper as one of ...Show more