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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by WOOLF VIRGINIA
$23.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind...' Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, 'A Room of One's Own' inter ...Show more
A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald; J. M. S. Tompkins (Editor); Jane Spencer (Introduction by)
$16.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain impe ...Show more
AESOP'S FABLES by Aesop
$19.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is very well bred!"' The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, e ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you ca'n't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.' The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies for children, ...Show more
An Autobiography: And Other Writings by Anthony Trollope
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I hated the office. I hated my work...the only career in life within my reach was that of an author.' The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope's account offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. After a miserable childhood and misspent youth, Trollope turne ...Show more
Apollodorus : The Library Of Greek Mythology by APOLLODORUS
$21.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century B ...Show more
Aristotle - Poetics by Aristotle
$21.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern understanding of the creation and impact of im ...Show more
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
$23.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of superb sat ...Show more
Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales by Robert (EDT) Herman; Milder Melville
$17.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
$19.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more im ...Show more
Christina Rossetti: Poems and Prose by Christina Rossetti
$24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass...' Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the world's beauty, but fears that it may be deceptive, even deadly. She is a religious poet, but much of her work is dri ...Show more
Classic Horror Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Roger Luckhurst (Editor)
$21.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction." Lovecraft develope ...Show more