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The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
35.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
18.99 NZD
34.00 (44% off)
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 Merchant of Venice : The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
20.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
What was Shakespeare's attitude to Semitism? The Introduction to this edition of The Merchant of Venice opens by addressing this vital issue raised by the play, and goes on to study the sources, background, and date, includuing a discussion of Sigmund Freud's essay on 'The Three Caskets'. Professor Hal ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer
18.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Shewring's superb prose translation comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language will allow.
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.' So begins one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature.
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, The Portrait of a Lady is both a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in machinations she only comes to understand too late. This new edition usefully tracks the major textual ...Show more
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
16.99 NZD
24.99 (32% off)
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
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
18.99 NZD
23.99 (20% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an intolerable world of colonial exploitation. Desiring a formal education, she leaves the isolated farm for boarding ...Show more
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
24.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into 19th-century fiction. A cause celebre when it first appeared, this book helped transform the shape and course of the late Victorian novel.
The Trial by Franz Kafka
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.' A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. The mysterious court which conducts his trial is outwardly ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw and other stories by Henry James
9.95 NZD
Category: unsorted ex new release | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
A young governess is charged with the care of two small children abandoned by their uncles at his country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet. But Peter Quint is dead. Is what appears to the governess a hal ...Show more
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
6.50 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This is the novel that was Hardy's own favorite "as a story." It appears here for the first time critically edited, in a text based on the manuscript but incorporating Hardy's later revisions.