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Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
$7.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Dickens's final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel's themes ...Show more
Pinocchio (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Carlo Collodi
$6.95 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
Carved by Old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. And Pinocchio is such a scamp that he gets into all sorts of mischief. He runs away and joins a circus but eventually the conscience of a talking cricket and Pinocchio's guardian fairy restore him to g ...Show more
Plays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
$7.99 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and ...Show more
Puck of Pook's Hill (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
$7.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
When Dan and Una stage a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in a fairy ring, they are astonished by the appearance of Puck in person. He explains that he is the last of the People of the Hills, who started as gods before descending into this world. Puck leads the two children in a series of extrao ...Show more
Scott's Last Expedition : Captain Scott by Captain Scott
$15.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The final letters and diary entries of Robert Falcon Scott - written in his last days, while hopelessly trapped in a tiny tent by a raging blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier - are among the most poignant and haunting passages ever penned. 'Had we lived,' he wrote, 'I should have had a tale to tell of the ...Show more
The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Johnny Gruelle
$7.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
'Hello, I'm Raggedy Ann. Welcome to my world. I'm going to tell you about myself and this book. Some grown-ups think I'm just another rag doll with floppy arms and legs who has been nibbled by the mice but they are wrong. When the other toys and I are left alone we get up to all sorts of games and adven ...Show more
The Children of the New Forest (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Captain Marryat
$7.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
In The Children of the New Forest, Cavalier and Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war and provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans as they face adversity, survival in the forest, reconciliation and eventual forgiveness. This is the first enduring h ...Show more
The Crystal Egg and Other Stories by H. G. Wells
$11.50 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This volume contains a generous selection of the tales of H. G. Wells, some of them famous, some forgotten. They demonstrate his immense imaginative energy, his originality, his prophetic genius, and his mastery of a range embracing Gothic horror, social satire, lyrical reverie and Utopian fantasy. Here ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitxgerald
$13.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the ...Show more
The Happy Prince (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Oscar Wilde
$4.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the help of a selfless Swallow helps people in distress. As well as The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend and The Remarkable Rocke ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
$7.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vuln ...Show more
The Invisible Man/ The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells
$7.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Linda Dryden, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University and the author of Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de Siecle-Literary Scene. At the end of the nineteenth century a stranger arrives in the Sussex countryside and mayhem ensues; in the sl ...Show more