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A Little Tea, A Little Chat by Christina Stead
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. His chief hobbies are moneymaking and seduction; he is always on the hunt for the next woman to beguile and betray. That is, until he meets his match: Barbara, the 'blondine', a woman he cannot b ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare; Peter Holland (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A Midsummer Nights Dream, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world's foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kasta ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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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 Month in the Country by J. L. Carr, J.L. Carr
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Penelope Fitzgerald - Introduction Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 112 pages | ISBN 014118230X | May 2000 A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beau ...Show more
A Murky Business by Honore de Balzac; Herbert J. Hunt (Translator)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Selected and Translated with an Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale.The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1 ...Show more
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy; Roger Ebbatson (Contribution by)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of his first wife, Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and ...Show more
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century literature. They focus o ...Show more
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a myste ...Show more
A Passage to India by E M Forster
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Forster's story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj, published as a Penguin Essential for the first timeWhen Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real In ...Show more
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Forster's story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real I ...Show more
A Philosophical Enquiry by Edmund Burke; Adam Phillips (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good