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Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ...And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes"'. The marriage of Gertrude and Walt ...Show more
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller, ' and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men--Alec d'Urberville, a wealth ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
Commonly named among the Great American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, is generally regarded as the sequel to his earlier novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; however, in Huckleberry Finn, Twain focused increasingly on the institution of slavery and the South. Narrate ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.' The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adv ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. The novels included in this collection from the elegant Knickerbocker Classics series--Sense and ...Show more
The History of England by Thomas Babington Macaulay
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his History of England won instantaneous success following t ...Show more
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
Charming in its wise and humane melancholy, this didactic romance Dr. Johnson published in 1759 tells the story of the Emporer of Abyssinia's son, weary of the joys of the happy valley, travels to Aegypt to study the human condition.
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good-very good
The Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. In his youth he betrayed his wife and baby daughter in a shocking incident that led him to swear never to touch alcohol again for twenty-one years. He has since risen from his humble origins to become a respected pillar of the community in Casterbr ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins; J. I. Stewart (Introduction by, Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
"The Moonstone" was originally published in 1868 by William Wilkie Collins. A 19th-century British epistolary novel, it is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and also established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. The story follows the theft of a sacred Indian dia ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins. 'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man'. When Rachel Verinder's birthday present ...Show more
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
$6.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
About the Book Books about History study documents and other evidence that shed light on past events. The evidence is assembled in an attempt to objectively analyze the movements and currents that determined past history. Historical studies are an extremely broad subject, and often categorized into Anci ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more