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The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the su ...Show more
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in The Adventures of the Empty House. The stories are ...Show more
The Secret Garden (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across h ...Show more
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Rudolf Wyss
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This story tells of the happy discovery of the wonders of natural history by a family shipwrecked on a desert island, who remain united through all the adversities they encounter. Inspired by Robinson Crusoe, this joyful narrative by a Swiss pastor remains a classic tale to be enjoyed by all.
Time Machine and Other Works by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries later as the richest man in a world of new technologies, power-greedy leaders, sensual el ...Show more
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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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
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the 'monster' turns out to be the giant submarine, Nautilus, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by who ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Ulysses is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. It is considered to be one of the most important works of Modernist ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
$5.95 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and respons ...Show more
Voyages of Captain Cook by James Cook
$15.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Cook's three voyages of discovery, which took place between 1768 and 1779, are among the most remarkable achievements in the history of exploration. Cook charted vast areas of the globe with astonishing accuracy, and the voyages also made a significant contribution towards solving some of the great prob ...Show more
War of the Worlds / The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened. The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to di ...Show more
Wind in the Willows (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Kenneth Grahame
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his 'Poop-poop-poop' road-hogging new motor car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and ...Show more