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Typhoon and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad; Cedric P. Watts (Editor, Introduction by)
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Four classic sea-related tales by Joseph Conrad, two set on a ship and two in a coastal town, present, as critic Paul Kirschner has observed, "a chiaroscuro of sea and land life in an alternating rhythm of hope and despair."
Ulysses by James Joyce
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Ulysses has been the subject of controversy since copies of the first English edition were burned by the New York Post Office Authorities. Today critical interest centers on the authority of the text. This edition republishes, for the first time, without interference, the original 1922 text. Jeri Johnso ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature. Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904.
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by P ...Show more
Utopia by Thomas More
$8.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this volume, More's description of the perfect republic is critically introduced and accompanied by contemporary letters concerning its publication.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; John Sutherland (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Subtitled "a novel without a hero," Vanity Fair offers an acidly satirical romp across all levels of English society during the Napoleonic wars. William Thackeray focuses on how the war affects people other than soldiers, the typical heroes. All of his characters are deeply flawed, from social climber B ...Show more
Victorian Verse - A Critical Anthology by George MacBeth (introduction by)
$7.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade in this story. The characters are an assortment of those inhabiting the social domain that lies between Park Lane and Bond Street.
Volpone and Other Plays by JONSON BEN
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a rich Venetian who pretends to be dying so that his despised acquaintances will flock to his bedside with extravagant gifts in ...Show more
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
$6.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Enriched Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a cabin in the woods at Walden Pond to record a philosophical experiment in living: to simplify his life, to support himself entirely by his own labor, and to draw spiritual sustenance from his surroundings. The result: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (1854). In ...Show more
Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau
$6.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!", for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their en ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
No library's complete without the classics! It was acclaimed author Leo Tolstoy's finest literary achievement. War and Peace, the story of five wealthy families of the Russian aristocracy during and after Napoleon's invasion of Russia, is also considered to be one of the finest novels of all time--a bo ...Show more