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Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett Arnold
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good
Anna, a woman of reserve and integrity, lives with her tyrannical and selfish father. Courted for her money by the handsome and successful Henry Mynors, Anna defies her father's wrath--with tragic results. Set in the Potteries against a background of dour Wesleyan Methodism, Anna of the Five Towns is a ...Show more
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth by Leo Tolstoy C. J. Hogarth (Translator)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that would come to fruition in his later masterpieces. Chronicling the experiences of a wealthy landowner's son as he gr ...Show more
Company K by William March; Philip D. Beidler (Introduction by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Library Alabama Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction by Philip D. Beidler This book was originally published in 1933. It is the first novel by William March, pen name for William Edward Campbell. Stemming directly from the author's experiences with the US Marines in France during World War I, the book consists of 113 sketches, or cha ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; Tobias Smollet (Translator); David Whitlock (Introduction by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good
Don Quixote The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, S ...Show more
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A collection of Stevenson's short stories found in one volume. Titles include Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Markheim, Lodging for the Night, Thrawn Janet, The Body Snatcher and The Misadventures of John Nicholson.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
$6.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Library of Classics | Reading Level: good
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
$10.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Just how did all the animals come to have each of their special characteristics? How was the alphabet created?Have you ever wondered how the Leopard got his spots, how the Rhinosaurus got his skin, or how the Alphabet was made? This witty and wonderful collection embarks upon a fanciful voyage to uneart ...Show more
King Kong by WALLACE, EDGAR
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Introduction by Greg Bear Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz The giant prehistoric gorilla King Kong is one of the most recognized images in our culture. So great is the mighty Kong's hold on the popular imagination that his story-a gripping yarn of man versus nature, coupled with a fantastical update of the ...Show more
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good
Raised as a plantation slave, Frederick Douglass went on to become a writer, orator, and major participant in the struggle for African-American freedom and equality. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaig ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they ...Show more