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Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 by Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895" collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with notes by Ronald Wilks, and an introduction by J. Douglas Clayton. These stories ...Show more
We Think the World of You by J R Ackerley
$5.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as "a fairy tale for adults." Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with ...Show more
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy; Kathryn R. King (Introduction by)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these tales also portray the social and economic stresses of 1880s Dorset, and reveal Hardy's growing scepticismabout the pos ...Show more
White Album: Essays by Joan Didion
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: FSG Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define m ...Show more
Wise Children by Angela Carter
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
Women Beware Women and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton; Richard Dutton (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This volume contains Thomas Middletons four greatest plays, "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside," "Women Beware Women," "The Changeling," and "A Game at Chess." "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex and effective of the city comedies. "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) ar ...Show more
Work Suspended and Other Stories by Evelyn Waugh
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, i ...Show more
Xenophon on Government by Vivienne J. Gray (Editor); Xenophon
$20.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Xenophon of Athens was a pupil of Socrates and a philosopher in his own right. He wrote two of the texts included in this volume, the Hiero (On Tyranny) and the Constitution of the Spartans. The third, the Constitution of the Athenians, is found under Xenophon's name alongside the other two in the manus ...Show more
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now available from Thomas Wolfe's original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend, that "will stand apart from everything else that he wrote" (The New York Times Book Review)--first published in 1940 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature. With an Introduction by Gail ...Show more
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now available from Thomas Wolfe's original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend, that "will stand apart from everything else that he wrote" (The New York Times Book Review)--first published in 1940 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature. With an Introduction by Gail G ...Show more