Browse by category
Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
$0.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Here, in a dazzling panoply, are the legendary figures from the age of chivalry: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Robin Hood, Richard the Lionhearted and his crusaders, and a host of other famous and lesser-known characters. This collection includes tales from Camelot, dramatic narratives ...Show more
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
$0.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son is a darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their father's pride, edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders in Penguin Classics.To Paul Dombey, business is all and money can do anything. He runs his family life as ...Show more
Droll Stories - Selected Tales by Honoré de Balzac
$20.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
These choice selections from Honor de Balzac's Droll Stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. Told in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais, they allegedly originated in manuscripts from the abbeys of Touraine. Originally published in three sets ...Show more
Five Great English Romantic Poets: Boxed Set: Lyric Poems / Selected Poems / Favorite Poems / The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems / Selected Poems by Lord George Gordon Byron
$22.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift S.
Charming set of English poetry from the Romantic period includes: Byron's Selected Poems, Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems by Shelley, Wordsworth's Favorite Poems, and Lyric Poems by Keats.
In Our Time: Stories by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
$16.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Hemingway made his North American literary debut in 1925 with In Our Time, his first collection of short stories and vignettes. Widely praised at the time for what later would be considered the author's hallmark style--uncomplicated, precise language with an eye for realism--the stories' themes of alien ...Show more
King James Bible Book of Psalms by King James Bible,Dover Thrift Editions
$5.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
Beloved book of the Old Testament contains 150 hymns of praise, prayers of crisis and songs of faith. Reprinted complete and unabridged from the King James Version (1611) of the Bible. Among the best known and most quoted books of the Old Testament, the Book of Psalms contains some 150 hymns of praise, ...Show more
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
$0.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A new star-studded adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic Little Dorrit for BBC1 starts this November.The 15-part serial was adapted by highly acclaimed writer Andrew Davies, also responsible for the very successful Bleak House (2005) and Sense and Sensibility (2008). This is the official TV tie-in edit ...Show more
Magnificent Ambersons by TARKINGTON BOOTH
$10.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the foun ...Show more
Notes from the Underground by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
$14.39 NZD
Category: Neuroscience | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A predecessor to such monumental works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From Underground represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky's writing towards the more political side. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who disillusioned by the oppression and co ...Show more
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
$15.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The novel is presented as a translation (by "Jean Francois Alden") of memoirs by Louis de Conte, a fictionalized version of Louis de Contes, Joan of Arc's page. The novel is divided into three sections according to Joan of Arc's development: a youth in Domr
Pre Raphaelite Poetry by Paul Negri
$9.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift S.
Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti crowns this outstanding collection: highlights include "The Blessed Damozel," "My Sister's Sleep," and selections from The House of Life. Christina Rossetti is represented by "Remember," "Cousin Kate," and "Song"; Swinburne's "The Garden of Proserpine," Morris' "The Hays ...Show more
SP The Necklace and Other Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
$16.50 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift S.
Nine memorable classics: "Ball of Fat," "The Necklace," "A Piece of String," "Mme. Tellier's Establishment," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "Miss Harriet," "A Way to Wealth," "My Uncle Jules," and "The Horla."