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Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Crime and punishment is probably Dostoevsky's most read and known novel and one of the most famous literary works of all time. Published in installments in 1866 in the journal «Russkij vestnik» («The Russian Messenger»), it is the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, which the author describes in a l ...Show more
Daisy Miller and Other Stories by Henry James
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's most attractive heroines: she represents youth and frivolity. As a tourist in Italy, her American freedom and freshness of spirit come up against the corruption and hypocrisy of European manners. From its first publication, readers on both sides of the Atlantic have ...Show more
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with The Merry Men and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. Also included in this volume is Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and ...Show more
Emma by JANE AUSTEN
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married ...Show more
English Fairy Tales (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Arthur Rackham
$8.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
'I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.' A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia ...Show more
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A fantasy of life amongst the monks and friars of 16th-century France. Within the text, Rabelais espouses a positive view of life in which tolerance, goodness, understanding and wisdom are opposed to dogmatism, pride and cruelty.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most mem ...Show more
Hamlet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
$6.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a carefu ...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
Histories by Herodotus
$12.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: very good
Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith. Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilom ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a h ...Show more