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The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant. Canterbury Christ Church College. The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of the l ...Show more
The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary Well-Beloved - in s ...Show more
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
$6.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the ...Show more
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
With an Introduction and Notes by Phillip Mallett, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews. Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a movin ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
$5.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many langua ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it tou ...Show more
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for youn ...Show more
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accide ...Show more
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and end ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic o ...Show more
Voyage of the Beagle by CHARLES DARWIN
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: good
Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropica ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. ...Show more