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Wise Children by Angela Carter
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
Women Beware Women and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton; Richard Dutton (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This volume contains Thomas Middletons four greatest plays, "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside," "Women Beware Women," "The Changeling," and "A Game at Chess." "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex and effective of the city comedies. "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) ar ...Show more
Work Suspended and Other Stories by Evelyn Waugh
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, i ...Show more
Xenophon on Government by Vivienne J. Gray (Editor); Xenophon
$20.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Xenophon of Athens was a pupil of Socrates and a philosopher in his own right. He wrote two of the texts included in this volume, the Hiero (On Tyranny) and the Constitution of the Spartans. The third, the Constitution of the Athenians, is found under Xenophon's name alongside the other two in the manus ...Show more
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now available from Thomas Wolfe's original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend, that "will stand apart from everything else that he wrote" (The New York Times Book Review)--first published in 1940 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature. With an Introduction by Gail ...Show more
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now available from Thomas Wolfe's original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend, that "will stand apart from everything else that he wrote" (The New York Times Book Review)--first published in 1940 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature. With an Introduction by Gail G ...Show more
Zarathustras Discourses by Friedrich Nietzsche
$2.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin 60s Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good