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Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell
49.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'A trained scout will see little signs and tracks, he puts them together in his mind and quickly reads a meaning from them such as an untrained man would never arrive at.' A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and imperial and urban myth, of borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodc ...Show more
Selected Poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins
18.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality. He is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling, from the religious ecstasy of 'he Blessed Virgin' to the torments of his loneliness and despair in 'No Worst', and for conveying with wonderfu ...Show more
Selected Poetry by William Blake
15.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This selection represents the full range of Blake's accomplishment as a poet, ranging from early Poetical Sketches to late lyrics and including such major works as
Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
15.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield's work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen all praised her stories, and her early death at the age of thirty-four cut short one of the fi ...Show more
Shakespeare: a Very Short Introduction by Germaine Greer
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Examines Shakespeare's plays, showing how he dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his audience became dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life. This book argues that as long as Shakespeare's work remains central to English cultural life, it will retain the values ...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 Castle (PB) by Franz Kafka
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ever been before' A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats - this is the setting for Kafka's story about a ma ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
59.99 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day. Perrault's tales were enjoyed in the salons of L ...Show more
The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
16.95 NZD
17.95 (5% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Boethius wrote this work in the 6th century AD while awaiting torture and death on a charge of treason. Though a Christian, in detailing the true end of life which is the soul's knowledge of God, he consoled himself not with Christian precepts but with the tenets of Greek philosophy.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
22.95 NZD
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Category: Business | Series: Oxford World's Classics
A novel of tension and excitement, it is also a tale of obsession and revenge, with Dantes, believing himself to be an