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Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
$12.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?" This edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisi ...Show more
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief by George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History James M McPherson (Princeton University)
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Battle Cry of Freedom," a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy" History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations. If that caus ...Show more
Everyday Meditations by St John Henry Newman; Bishop James D Conley, STL (Introduction by)
$26.95 NZD
Category: No Category
Over the years, the brilliant and often voluminous scholarly writings of Bl. John Henry Newman (1801-1890), have drawn into the Church thousands more converts after him. In this more modest work, his Everyday Meditations, we encounter not Newman the intellectual but Newman the simple Christian, on his ...Show more
Impressionism by James Henry Rubin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Art & Ideas S.
Celebrations of city streets; tranquil vistas of the countryside and seashore; enchanting images of the leisured classes in domestic interiors or at fashionable Parisian cafes - the work of the Impressionists gives pleasure to art lovers everywhere. But while Impressionism today may appear "natural" and ...Show more
Jam by Margaret Mahy; Henry James
$25.99 NZD
Category: No Category
This is a picture book about the Castle family, their plum tree and the enormous quantities of jam Mr Castle makes. The family end up eating jam for all three meals a day, dreaming of jam and dreading the day when, once more, the plum tree is ripe and laden with fruit.
Portrait of a Lady (Penguin English Library) by Henry James
$12.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James. 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her'. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Tou ...Show more
SP Washington Square 1400 Headwords by Henry James
$15.50 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Bookworms Library
When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. But in New York, in the 1840s, young ladies are not free to marry where they please. Catherine must have her father's permission, and Dr Sloper is a rich man. One day, Catherine will have a fortune of 30,000 dollars ...Show more
Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue (Henry James Chair of English and American Letters, New York University, USA)
$35.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Something or other lay in wait for him, amid the twists and turns of the months and the years, like a crouching beast in the jungle.' Henry James' devastating and profoundly moving novella is the story of John Marcher, a man who, for as long as he can remember, has been obsessed by the feeling that som ...Show more
The Diary of a Man of Fifty by Henry James
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Returning to Florence after 25 years of military service, a man of fifty finds himself haunted by memories of a thwarted love affair which took place on the banks of the Arno during his youth. On enquiring after the erstwhile object of his affections, he encounters a young man in amorous pursuit of her ...Show more
The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 49 | Reading Level: very good
Did she know and if she knew would she speak?'The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness" Introducing Little Black Classics- 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Pengu ...Show more
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"James described The Golden Bowl as 'the most done of my productions--the most composed and constructed and completed.' In the novel an American woman, Maggie Verver, marries an Italian prince, while her wealthy father marries Maggie's girlhood friend, Charlotte Stant--neither Verver being aware that th ...Show more