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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 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 Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
$10.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable fo ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the Revolution from an essentially private point of v ...Show more
Adam Bede by George Eliot
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Chapter 2 The Preaching About a quarter to seven there was an unusual appearance of excitement in the village of Hayslope, and through the whole length of its little street, from the Donnithorne Arms to the churchyard gate, the inhabitants had evidently been drawn out of their houses by something more t ...Show more
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literatu ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
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Category: Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is very well bred!"' The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, e ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Usually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and of ...Show more
An Australian Girl by Catherine Martin; Graham Tulloch (Editor); Amanda Nettlebeck (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume; Peter Millican (ed.)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Aristotle - Poetics by Aristotle
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Category: Greek Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern understanding of the creation and impact of im ...Show more
As You Like It by William Shakespeare; Alan Brissenden (Editor)
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy and one of the best-loved and most performed of all his plays. In his introduction to this new edition Alan Brissenden suggests reasons for its delayed publication and discusses in detail how productions have changed radically over the years. Sha ...Show more