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A Hunger Artist and Other Stories (PB) by Franz Kafka
26.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This new translation includes Kafka's two published collections, A Country Doctor and A Hunger Artist with other, uncollected stories, aphorisms, and parables that have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous, the stories meditate on art and artists and the human ex ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
12.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Having assured the members of London\\\'s Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - joins forces with Passepartout to achieve his goal.
Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
23.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture, condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust. Though a convinced Christian, in detailing the true end of life which is the soul's knowledge of God, he consoled hi ...Show more
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
15.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Coriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written. Set in Ancient Rome, it remains a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics.
Elegies: With Parallel Latin Text by Albius Tibullus
16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Delia, when flames engulf my bier you'll weep for me, and then you'll mix your kisses with sad tears.' Tibullus (?55-18 BC) was one of a group of poets known as the Latin elegists, whose number included Ovid and Propertius. Living in the age of Augustus, his poems reflect Augustan ideals, but they are ...Show more
Evolutionary Writings: Including the Autobiographies by Charles Darwin
22.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin' On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together ...Show more
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
34.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'And low, stole o'er the stillness the heartbeats of sleep' In Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world history, of ambition and failure, desire and transgression, pride and shame, rivalry and conflict, gossip ...Show more
Foxes Book of Martyrs-Select Narratives by John Foxe & John N. King (ed.)
18.99 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.' Hugh Latimer's famous words of consolation to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be burnt alive for heresy come from John Foxe's magisterial ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
10.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Sally Shuttleworth explores the power of "Jane Eyre" a narrative that questions the rights of women, the nature of servitude and madness, martyrdom and rebellion in a story whose emotional charge is a strong today as it was when it was published more than 150 years ago.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
15.99 NZD
17.00 (5% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Such a strange book! Imagine a novel with a little swarthy governess for heroine, and a middle-aged ruffian for hero.' Sharpe's London Magazine (June 1855) Jane Eyre is an orphan grown up under the harsh regime first of her aunt and then as a pupil at Lowood Institution. She leaves to become a governes ...Show more
Just So Stories for Little Children by Rudyard Kipling
12.95 NZD
16.50 (21% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
How did the camel get his hump? Why won\\\'t cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? Kipling\\\'s imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk traditions.
Kamasutra by Sudhir Kakar
24.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
"The Kamasutra" is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the art of living - about finding a partner, marriage, adultery, using drugs - and also about the positions in sexual intercourse. The text is presented here in clear, vivid, frank English, with three commentaries.