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A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized. Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Roger Cardinal (Intro and Notes by)
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Library
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Translations are by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon). JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the fa ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; Tobias Smollet (Translator); David Whitlock (Introduction by)
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good
Don Quixote The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, S ...Show more
Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century by Gideon Rachman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
The West's domination of world politics is coming to a close. The flow of wealth and power is turning from West to East and a new era of global instability has begun. Easternisation is the defining trend of our age - the growing wealth of Asian nations is transforming the international balance of power. ...Show more
Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben
$35.00 NZD
Category: Animals | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? Squirrels that adopt their grandchildren? We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? More and more researchers are real ...Show more
Middlemarch (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Eliot
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library Classics
'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life...? Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabita ...Show more
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: very good
As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same da ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: very good
In nineteenth century England, clever, high-spirited Elizabeth Bennet is pursued by a suitor who she finds snobby and contemptuous.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID PEACE This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes s most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels, which take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson from t ...Show more
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald (Translator)
$9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Library
In the renowned translation by Edward FitzGerald, with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts. Here is Edward FitzGerald's original translation of the Rubáiyát, the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyám. FitzGerald's distinctive version (1859) ...Show more
The Susan Effect by Peter Hoeg
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
Susan Svendsen has a special talent: she has a unique ability to make people confide in her and tell her their innermost secrets. She has exploited that talent, and now has a prison sentence hanging over her head for punching a Bollywood actor in an Indian casino. To make matters worse, her husband is o ...Show more
The Water Kingdom by Philip Ball
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the countr ...Show more