Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

$6.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Library of Classics | Reading Level: good

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

$8.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Oxford World Classics | Reading Level: very good

After the death of his father, the seventeen-year-old orphan David Balfour discovers the existence of an uncle, and sets off in search of him. His uncle Ebenzer is far from welcoming, however, and David, after barely escaping with his life, finds himself kidnapped and bound for America, where he is to b e sold into slavery. Yet when the hot-headed Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart comes on board, David soon finds himself thrust into a perilous adventure, and fleeing for his life across the Scottish Highlands. Inspired by real historical events, Kidnapped is an unforgettable and action-packed adventure story that has delighted and captivated readers for more than a century. ...Show more

Doctor Thorne (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anthony Trollope

$14.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good

Doctor Thomas Thorne is guardian to his beautiful but impecunious niece, Mary, whose parentage he has always kept secret. Mary falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the dwindling Greshamsbury estate, but when Frank proposes, his parents insist that he must marry for money to restore his family's for tunes. Frank is torn between his love for Mary and his sense of familial duty, whilst Doctor Thorne must decide whether to reveal the secret he has kept for so long. In Doctor Thorne Trollope explores themes of money and society and the conflict between tradition and the need for change. Part of the 'Chronicles of Barsetshire' series on which Trollope's reputation primarily rests, it outsold all of his other novels during his lifetime. This gorgeous edition features an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. ...Show more

Daisy Miller by Henry James

$4.00 NZD

Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: good

Henry James's classic story of unrequited love. Lake Geneva, 1878: a young American expatriate, Frederick Winterbourne, meets Daisy Miller, a strikingly pretty young American from Schenectady. Though immediately infatuated with each other, they are socially worlds apart. Winterbourne fails to recognise that Daisy is that alarming new phenomenon, 'the American Girl', free to do as she pleases. Daisy Miller has its intensely poignant denouement in Rome, where Daisy's conduct provokes the wrath of the city's American colony, and leads Winterbourne to tragically misjudge her. ...Show more

The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James

$5.00 NZD

Category: Classic fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good

Mrs. Gereth had said she would go with the rest to church, but suddenly it seemed to her that she should not be able to wait even till church-time for relief: breakfast, at Waterbath, was a punctual meal, and she had still nearly an hour on her hands. Knowing the church to be near, she prepared in her r oom for the little rural walk, and on her way down again, passing through corridors and observing imbecilities of decoration, the sthetic misery of the big commodious house, she felt a return of the tide of last night's irritation, a renewal of everything she could secretly suffer from ugliness and stupidity. ...Show more

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson

$8.00 NZD

Category: Classic fiction | Series: The World's Classics Series | Reading Level: very good

Charming in its wise and humane melancholy, this didactic romance Dr. Johnson published in 1759 tells the story of the Emporer of Abyssinia's son, weary of the joys of the happy valley, travels to Aegypt to study the human condition.

Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales by Mark Twain

$8.00 NZD

Category: Classic fiction | Series: The World's Classics | Reading Level: very good

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction. It reveals the sinister forces that, towards the end of his life, Twain thought to be threatening the American dream. The central plot revolves around the tragedy o f "Roxy," a mulatto slave whose attempt to save her son from his fate succeeds only in destroying him. An astringent work which raises the serious issue of racial difference, Pudd'nhead Wilson is considered by the critic F.R. Leavis to be "a classic of the use of popular modes--the sensational and the melodramatic." The volume also includes two other late works by Twain, Those Extraordinary Twins and The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg. ...Show more