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Utopia by Thomas More
$8.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this volume, More's description of the perfect republic is critically introduced and accompanied by contemporary letters concerning its publication.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; John Sutherland (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Subtitled "a novel without a hero," Vanity Fair offers an acidly satirical romp across all levels of English society during the Napoleonic wars. William Thackeray focuses on how the war affects people other than soldiers, the typical heroes. All of his characters are deeply flawed, from social climber B ...Show more
Victorian Verse - A Critical Anthology by George MacBeth (introduction by)
$7.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade in this story. The characters are an assortment of those inhabiting the social domain that lies between Park Lane and Bond Street.
Volpone and Other Plays by JONSON BEN
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a rich Venetian who pretends to be dying so that his despised acquaintances will flock to his bedside with extravagant gifts in ...Show more
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
$6.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Enriched Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a cabin in the woods at Walden Pond to record a philosophical experiment in living: to simplify his life, to support himself entirely by his own labor, and to draw spiritual sustenance from his surroundings. The result: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (1854). In ...Show more
Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau
$6.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!", for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their en ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
No library's complete without the classics! It was acclaimed author Leo Tolstoy's finest literary achievement. War and Peace, the story of five wealthy families of the Russian aristocracy during and after Napoleon's invasion of Russia, is also considered to be one of the finest novels of all time--a bo ...Show more
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 by Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895" collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with notes by Ronald Wilks, and an introduction by J. Douglas Clayton. These stories ...Show more
We Think the World of You by J R Ackerley
$5.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as "a fairy tale for adults." Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with ...Show more
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy; Kathryn R. King (Introduction by)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these tales also portray the social and economic stresses of 1880s Dorset, and reveal Hardy's growing scepticismabout the pos ...Show more
White Album: Essays by Joan Didion
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: FSG Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define m ...Show more