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100 Selected Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging f ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
$6.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its l ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work. This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears i ...Show more
Agnes Grey by ANNE BRONTE
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poign ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
$6.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them.Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Ra ...Show more
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
$6.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial po ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mys ...Show more
Chekhov: Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov (intro & notes Joe Andrews)
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination. This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comi ...Show more
Complete Nonsense (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Edward Lear
$7.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense S ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later lif ...Show more
Count of Monte Cristo by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In hi ...Show more
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
$5.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
In this classic portrait of life in a quiet English village of the early nineteenth century, Elizabeth Gaskell writes with wit and affection of the foibles, follies and endearing eccentricities of its occupants as they struggle to maintain standards in their genteel poverty. This witty and poignant come ...Show more