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Kim by Rudyard Kipling
10.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road.
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
12.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
A search for a missing man amidst the scorching deserts and perilous mountains of Africa. In 1885, H. Rider Haggard's publisher considered it "the most amazing book ever written." This edition contains annotation.
Letters Concerning the English Nation by Voltaire
24.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have place the Letters among the grea ...Show more
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
18.99 NZD
24.95 (23% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
A critical edition of this popular story. Sally Shuttleworth's introduction finds beneath the idyllic evocation of rural bliss and a tale of love and high adventure, a sub-text which rigidly defends Victorian values, and portrays a "manly" hero constantly having to prove his masculinity to himself.
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management by Mrs. Beeton
24.95 NZD
29.95 (16% off)
Category: Cooking & Food | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Alternately fashionable and frugal, anxious and self-confident, this text highlights the concerns of a Victorian middle-class at a key point in its history. This edition suggests ways of approaching this massive, hybrid text as a significant document of social and cultural history.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
15.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Frederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author. It is here reprinted with contexualizing source material and other writings by Dou ...Show more
Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott
22.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
A swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in 17th-century Scotland in the period infamous as the "killing time". Henry Morton is torn between his love for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his downtrodden countrymen.
Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Written in 1848, this is the humorous and uninhibited story of Arthur Pendennis, the son of a selfless widow, who moves from one disastrous romantic entanglement to another. It is an introspective novel, chronicling Thackeray's own youth and growth to maturity under a thin veil of fiction.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
12.99 NZD
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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
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald
34.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald s ...Show more
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald
20.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald saw ...Show more
Sayings of the Buddha by Rupert Gethin
20.95 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'As if someone were to hold up a lamp in the dark so that those with eyes could see - in exactly the same way Gotama has made the truth clear in various ways.' Gotama the Buddha, who lived the life of a wandering ascetic in northern India during the fifth century BCE, is looked to as the founder of one ...Show more