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A Little Princess (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$7.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables her to fig ...Show more
Aesop's Fables (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Aesop
$9.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the manger, the wolf in sheep's clothing and many others - have entered the languages and ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
$7.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them.Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Ra ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
$13.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a ...Show more
Between the Acts & The Years by Virginia Woolf
$6.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, The Years(1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts(1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweave ...Show more
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
$0.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies. Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead. Seen through his eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the ...Show more
Captain Scott : The Voyage Of The Discovery by R.F.Scott
$15.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
When I received the script of The Voyage of the Discovery I was amazed. I had only to read a few pages to realise that it was literature, unique of its kind ...Scott's mind was like wax to receive an impression and like marble to retain it'. So wrote Leonard Huxley, and he was not alone in his opinion. ...Show more
Complete Nonsense (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Edward Lear
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense S ...Show more
Count of Monte Cristo by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
$13.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In hi ...Show more
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
$7.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher. George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and ...Show more
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
$13.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-t ...Show more
First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
$7.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to Kent to write a play, he encounters Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist who has invented a material that counteracts gravity. This discovery enables the two men to set off on a fantastic journey to the Moon. But they are not prepared for what they find ...Show more