The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
The Scarlet Pimpernelby Baroness Emmuska OrczyIn 1792, when the hated aristocrats were being mowed down in France by Madame Guillotine, an intrepid Englishman hid his identity under the nom-de-guerre of "The Scarlet Pimpernel," and headed a band of twenty noblemen whose object was to save as many of the ...Show more
Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence
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Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Sons and Lovers is a novel written by D. H. Lawrence and published in 1913. The book follows the life of Paul Morel, a young man who is torn between his love for his mother and his desire for independence. Paul's mother, Gertrude, is a strong-willed woman who has devoted her life to her children, but wh ...Show more
The Castle of Argol by Julien Gracq
$45.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins; J. I. Stewart (Introduction by, Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
"The Moonstone" was originally published in 1868 by William Wilkie Collins. A 19th-century British epistolary novel, it is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and also established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. The story follows the theft of a sacred Indian dia ...Show more
The Position of Peggy Harper by Leonard Merrick
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Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Position of Peggy Harper, written by Leonard Merrick, is a novel that tells the story of Peggy Harper, a young woman who is forced to navigate the complexities of love, marriage, and social expectations in early 20th century England. Peggy is a bright and independent woman who is determined to make ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic ob ...Show more
Sybil or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good