The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works by Aphra Behn
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his des ...Show more
Henry Fielding by Joseph Andrews
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
Fanny Price, is a young girl from a relatively poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park. She grows up with her four cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, but is always treated as inferior to them; only Edmund shows her real kindness. He is also the ...Show more
Heart of Darkness & Other Stories by Joseph Conrad
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colon ...Show more
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Volumes I & II by Charles Dickens
$100.00 NZD
Category: rare & collectable | Series: Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors Volume CCXVII | Reading Level: Good - Very Good
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
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
Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood; David Oakleaf (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Literary Texts Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) was one of the most successful writers of her time; indeed, the two most popular English novels in the early eighteenth-century were Robinson Crusoe and Haywood's first novel, Love in Excess. As this edition enables modern readers to discover, its enormous success is easy to un ...Show more
Clara Hopgood by Mark Rutherford
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
William Hale White (1831-1913) known by his pseudonym Mark Rutherford was a British writer and civil servant. White was born in Bedford educated at Bedford Modern School. He had already served an apprenticeship to journalism before he made his name as a novelist by the three books edited by Reuben Shapc ...Show more
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
Martin Chuzzlewit by CHARLES DICKENS
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectiv ...Show more