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A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins
$5.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Pocket Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer, best known for The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to the fami ...Show more
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Forster's social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy.
A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia by Laurie Lee
$7.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashes slums, the cult of t ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series | Reading Level: very good
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays - Sweet Bird of Youth; The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
For use in schools and libraries only. Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
$8.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Crime | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Watson met Holmes for the first time a short while ago, and already Sherlock Holmes had astonished him with his powers of detection. In this, their first adventure, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson uncover a thrilling story of murder, love and revenge, which began years before in Salt Lake City.
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works by Jonathan Swift; Angus Ross (Editor); David Woolley (Editor)
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Category: Essays | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This volume includes "The Battle of the Books" and "The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit", both which accompanied "A Tale of a Tub" on its first publication in 1704.
A Treatise of Human Nature : Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects by David Hume
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the princip ...Show more
A Universal History of Infamy by Jorge Luis Borges
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Series | Reading Level: very good
A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant; H. N. Sloman (Translator)
$5.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A Woman's LifeGuy de Maupassant
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
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she rea ...Show more