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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen; John Mullan (Editor)
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striki ...Show more
She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies by Oliver Goldsmith
$29.99 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to Conquer * Wild Oats This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's drama. Fielding's The Modern Husband , written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restricted political an ...Show more
The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 by Brian Cummings
$44.99 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'In the midst of life we are in death' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people, it has provided a background fanfare for a marriage or a funeral march at a burial. Yet this familiarity also hi ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; David Wright (Translator)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter, Sheila Fisher's vivid, lively, and readable translation makes the poetic artistry of The Canterbury Tales accessible to a contemporary ear and invites readers, even those who have read the work before in Middle English, to a new appreciation of its delightful storie ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ruth Prigozy (Editor)
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more
The Lives of the Poets : A Selection by Samuel Johnson (ed Roger Lonsdale)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as w ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
$19.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'But it's bad - it's bad,' Mr Tulliver added - 'a woman's no business wi' being so clever; it'll turn to trouble, I doubt.' Rebellious and affectionate, Maggie Tulliver is always in trouble. Recalling her own experiences as a girl, George Eliot describes Maggie's turbulent childhood with a sympathetic e ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.' When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to stay forever young, and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. Set in fin-de-siec ...Show more
The Qur'an by HALEEM TRANS
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a ...Show more
The Russian Master and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
$16.95 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
These stories are translated with an Introduction by Ronald Hingley.
Theaetetus by Plató; John McDowell (Translator); Lesley Brown
$27.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
M. J. Levett's elegant translation of Plato's Theaetetus, first published in 1928, is here revised by Myles Burnyeat to reflect contemporary standards of accuracy while retaining the style, imagery, and idiomatic speech for which the Levett translation is unparalleled. Bernard William's concise introduc ...Show more
Victorian Fairy Tales by Michael Newton (Editor)
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written. They offer the shortest path to the age's dreams, desires, and wishes. Authors central ...Show more