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A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, Mark Twain
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: good
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtBy Mark TwainAn extravagant but cleverly planned burlesque that works as a condemnation of Chivalry, one of Twain's chief aversions...
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne
$5.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
Sterne travelled through France and Italy three years prior to writing A Sentimental Journey, which he completed on his death bed. The protagonist is a thinly-disguised Sterne who recounts his - mostly amorous - adventures through the two countries. Sterne very particularly wanted the account to be subj ...Show more
A Short History of English Printing by Henry R Plomer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Series: The English Bookman's Library | Reading Level: good-very good
Aspern Papers & Turn of the Screw by Henry James
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
A literary historian develops a scheme to gain possession of love letters written by an American poet, and a governess tries to protect the two young children in her care from the ghosts she perceives haunting them.
At the Mountains of Madness by H P Lovecraft
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. LovecraftOn an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in thes ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens; Norman Page (Editor); J. Hillis Miller Jr. (Introduction by)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: good
Bleak House is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the vastest, most complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by a mostly omniscient narrator. Memorable charac ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show'. Dickens' epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he ...Show more
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil'. Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark ps ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window'. A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, "Dracula" also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he m ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important ...Show more
English Mystery Plays - A Selection by Peter Happe
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
A collection of plays that features Crucifixion and Resurrection.
Evelina by Frances Burney
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: good
'O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one short morning of happiness!' In this comic and sharply incisive satire of excess and affectations, beautiful young Evelina falls victim to the rakish advances of Sir Clement Willoughby on her entrance to the world of fashionable London. Co ...Show more