Heart of Darkness & Other Stories by Joseph Conrad
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colon ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
The lavish and glorious Baz Luhrmann film tie-in edition of The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and extravagent lifestyle of his neighbour, Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man famed for his decadent, champagne-d ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy lord, sending Heathcliff on a li ...Show more
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Volumes I & II by Charles Dickens
$100.00 NZD
Category: rare & collectable | Series: Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors Volume CCXVII | Reading Level: Good - Very Good
Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood; David Oakleaf (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Literary Texts Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) was one of the most successful writers of her time; indeed, the two most popular English novels in the early eighteenth-century were Robinson Crusoe and Haywood's first novel, Love in Excess. As this edition enables modern readers to discover, its enormous success is easy to un ...Show more
Clara Hopgood by Mark Rutherford
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Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
William Hale White (1831-1913) known by his pseudonym Mark Rutherford was a British writer and civil servant. White was born in Bedford educated at Bedford Modern School. He had already served an apprenticeship to journalism before he made his name as a novelist by the three books edited by Reuben Shapc ...Show more
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectiv ...Show more
Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Clayhanger Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The second novel in the Clayhanger series, Hilda Lessways (1911) is told from the point of view of Edwin's Clayhanger's wife, Hilda. It describes her coming of age, her work as a shorthand clerk and in a lodging house in London and Brighton, her relationship with George Cannon, which ends in a pregnancy ...Show more
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett; Frank Swinnerton (Introduction by)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The first novel of a family saga, Clayhanger (1910) is a coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England. It follows Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business and falls in love. The triumph of the book is the minute detailing of the effect of bourgeois respectabi ...Show more