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A Celtic Miscellany by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx. By drawing on both the poetry and the prose of all six Celtic languages, this "Celtic miscellany" succeeds in reflecting the extraordinary depth and diversity of Celtic literature. Skilfully and sensitively arranaged by theme (from heroic tales ...Show more
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton; Emma French (Editor)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Drama Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613, this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic natureeven in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people inLondon's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is moreimportant than either happiness ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writingscollects stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings. This Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Slater.Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol ...Show more
A Confession and Other Religious Writings by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In "Confession" Tolstoy poses the question: Is there any meaning in my life that will not be destroyed by my death? In 1879 the fifty-year-old author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" came to believe that he had accomplished nothing in life. Either of these magnificant novels would have assured Tol ...Show more
A Day in the Country and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant; David Coward (Translator)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In addition to the title story, this selection of twenty-seven stories includes one of Maupassant's most famous tales, The Necklace, and Le Horla, a tale with strange parallels to the author's own descent into madness, as well as many other provocative and often chilling works--spanning the whole range ...Show more
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy: An Inspector Ramsay Novel 3 by Ann Cleeves
$10.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Crime | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to visit people she wanted to see as a welcome respite from the routine duties that being a vicar's wife entailed. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than an ...Show more
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhaïl Lérmontov; Paul Foote (Introduction by, Translator)
$5.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
"Of lasting appeal to readers of all countries and centuries."--Vladimir Nabokov Russian literature's first major prose novel, this gripping work was a primary influence on Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and other great nineteenth-century writers. Mikhail Lermontov, "the poet of the Caucasus," drew upon his pers ...Show more
A History of My Times by Xenophon
$8.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his magisterial history, this is a fascinating chronicle of the conflicts that ultimately led to the decline of Greec ...Show more
A Life by Guy de Maupassant
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
`every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth'What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has ...Show more
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$8.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Courage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Little Princess (1905) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a beloved children's classic, the story of a brave little girl who retains her dignity, compassion, kindness, and the true demeanor of a princess through unexpected hardship and misfortune. The child of the wealthy Captain Crewe who has made his di ...Show more