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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
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
12.99 NZD
100.00 (87% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775-1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life that is now r ...Show more
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'You expected bread, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it, and don't shriek...you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob.' Shirley is Charlotte Bronte's only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period of ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot
13.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
It came to me first of all, quite suddenly, as a sort of legendary tale, suggested by my recollection of having once, in early childhood, seen a linen-weaver with a bag on his back; but, as my mind dwelt on the subject, I became inclined to a more realistic treatment. Falsely accused, cut off from his p ...Show more
The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 by Brian Cummings
39.99 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'In the midst of life we are in death' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people, it has provided a background fanfare for a marriage or a funeral march at a burial. Yet this familiarity also hi ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
18.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to Eng ...Show more
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
16.99 NZD
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The present system means joyless drudgery, semi-starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let them have what they vote for! Let them drudge and let them starve!' There is no other novel quite like The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. George Orwell called it 'a wonder ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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18.00 (11% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This new edition of Emily Bronte's classic 1847 novel uses the authoritative Clarendon text. Patsy Stoneman's introduction considers the bewildering variety of critical interpretation to which the novel has been subject, as well as offering some provocative new insights for the modern reader.
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