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Kim by Rudyard Kipling
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befrie ...Show more
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between t ...Show more
Les Miserables (#1) by Victor Hugo
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, ...Show more
Les Miserables (#2) by Victor Hugo
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Merables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, a ...Show more
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
$6.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the ...Show more
Lorna Doone by R D Blackmore
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685). It is also a moving love story tol ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of pro ...Show more
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
$6.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: near fine
In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Measure for Measure ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been re ...Show more
Middlemarch by George Eliot
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and i ...Show more
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of ‘Poetry Review’. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabo ...Show more
Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
$8.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
When Richard Hannay, the hero of "The Thirty-nine Steps", is recalled by the Head of British Intelligence from the Western Front at a critical moment in the battle for France, he has little idea that his contribution to the war effort will be much more crucial than the command of his Brigade in Flanders ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
$6.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broader comedy is provided by Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen. The drama ranges between the destructively si ...Show more