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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
4.95 NZD
13.99 (64% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its l ...Show more
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
9.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession. Wallace writes with a freshness and immediacy ...Show more
Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville
5.95 NZD
7.99 (25% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of sat ...Show more
Chapman's Homer :The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
8.95 NZD
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.
Chekhov: Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov (intro & notes Joe Andrews)
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination. This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comi ...Show more
Histories by Herodotus
4.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: very good
Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith. Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilom ...Show more
Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
7.99 NZD
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Category: Children Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
4.95 NZD
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions as well as high poetry, blended in such a way as to demonstrate the assured dramatic touch of Shakespeare's maturity. Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned int ...Show more
Man In The Iron Mask by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
25.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a powe ...Show more
Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
When Richard Hannay, the hero of "The Thirty-nine Steps", is recalled by the Head of British Intelligence from the Western Front at a critical moment in the battle for France, he has little idea that his contribution to the war effort will be much more crucial than the command of his Brigade in Flanders ...Show more
Persuasion by JANE AUSTEN
7.99 NZD
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
4.95 NZD
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Wordsworth classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material ...Show more