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Salome by Oscar Wilde
$3.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift S.
Written originally in French in 1892, Wilde's one-act tragedy "Salome" enacts the biblical tale of a wanton woman's erotic dance and the martyrdom of John the Baptist. This volume reprints the complete text of the first English edition (1894) with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, plus "A Note on "Salo ...Show more
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
$5.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Dover Thrift S.
Charming satire concerns a young lady who poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. Notes.
Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
$9.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the Master of Life, descending, On the red crags of the quarryStood erect, and called the nations, Called the tribes of men together.From his footprints flowed a river, Leaped into the light of morning, O' ...Show more
Swann's Way (#1 In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past) by Marcel Proust; C. K. Scott Montcrieff (Translator)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Swann's Way is the first part of the saga In Search of Lost Time by a classic of theFrench literature Marcel Proust.Back in the day, this book confused the most sympathetic readers and critics,because at the first sight, it was an unsuccessful autobiographic novel that waschronologically complicated and ...Show more
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
$4.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Dover Thrift S.
One of the most popular works of American literature, this charming self-portrait has been translated into nearly every language. It covers Franklin's life up to his prewar stay in London as representative of the Pennsylvania Assembly, including his boyhood years, work as a printer, experiments with ele ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Upon the ground around the body were the footprints of a gigantic hound When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead, his face distorted with shock and horror, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are faced with a sinister and difficult puzzle. A fearsome creature stalks the wild and barren hills of Dartmoor. Is ...Show more
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis; Aloysius Croft & Harold Bolton (Translators)
$11.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This classic of Christian devotional literature has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Both Protestants and Catholics — as well as mystics and historians of religious thought — have studied these meditations on the life and teachings of Jesus, finding in them a path to prayer a ...Show more
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
$6.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Dover Thrift S. | Reading Level: very good
One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau's daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance and individual freedom, on society, government, and other ...Show more
songs of innocence and experience by William Blake
$3.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift S.
Classics of English poetry, alternately describing childhood states of innocence and their inevitable ensnarement in a corrupt and repressive world. Contains the full texts of all the poems in the original 1794 edition of both collections.