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The Warden by Anthony Trollope
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
Anthony Trollope's "The Warden" is the first of his well-loved "Chronicles of Barsetshire", edited with an introduction and notes by Robin Gilmour in "Penguin Classics". The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester is shattered when a scandal breaks concerning the financial affairs of a C ...Show more
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
Samuel Butler was one of the Victorian era's greatest iconoclasts. Once, he said that after reading Darwin's The Origin of Species, that the theory of evolution had replaced Christianity for him. And this -- after Butler had originally studied for the clergy. Darwin also praised Butler for his clear un ...Show more
The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III by Adam Smith
$14.00 NZD
Category: Economics | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. These volumes include Smith's assessment of the mercantile system, hi ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
A new edition of Wilkie Collins's classic novel, The Woman in White, one of the finest examples of Victorian-era Gothic mystery and suspense. Told from multiple narrative perspectives, The Woman in White begins with the story of Walter Hartright, a young artist and teacher who encounters on the streets ...Show more
Typee - A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
Herman Melville is one of the greatest figures in literary history. His classic Moby Dick is generally considered the finest novel ever written by an American. Yet in Melville's day, Typee was a far more popular book. Largely autobiographical, this classic adventure story is set in the South Seas, where ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Washington Square" by James Hardy. "Why, you must take me or leave me ...You can't please your father and me both; you must choose between us". When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Wives and Daughters" by Elizabeth Gaskell. "Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways..." Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course b ...Show more
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins. 'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop ...There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth ...stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'. "The Woma ...Show more