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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
$17.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Such a strange book! Imagine a novel with a little swarthy governess for heroine, and a middle-aged ruffian for hero.' Sharpe's London Magazine (June 1855) Jane Eyre is an orphan grown up under the harsh regime first of her aunt and then as a pupil at Lowood Institution. She leaves to become a governes ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
$14.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"The Bront s' gifted biographer provides us with another superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Bront 's classic novel. For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel it ...Show more
Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon - Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings by Jane Austen; Kathryn Sutherland (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others-of resigning my own judgement in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect.' The unfinished fictions collected here are the novels and other writing that Jane Austen did not publish. The protagonist of the earlies ...Show more
Lord Byron: Selected Poetry by BYRON LORD GEORGE GORDON
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Lord Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. His early fame came in 1812 after the publication of Childe Harold. Relishing humor and irony, daring and flamboyancy, sarcasm and idealism, his work encompasses a sweeping range of topics, subjects, and mod ...Show more
Mabinogion by Sioned Davies (Trans)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: World's Classics Ser.
'I cannot be killed indoors,' he said, 'nor out of doors; I cannot be killed on horseback, nor on foot.''Well,' she said, 'how can you be killed?' Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous author ...Show more
Major Works by Saint Anselm (Archbishop of Canterbury)
$26.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.' Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to think that the Christian religion is true? What is truth ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
$23.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often paradoxical and always arbitrary fates of his human and div ...Show more
Moby Dick by Melville Herman
$20.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. W ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Christina Lupton; James Kinsley (Editor)
$14.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadFew have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen's beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. ...Show more
Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs by Soren Kierkegaard
$24.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love' So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard's pseudonymous narrator, is a repetition, and in the course of this witty, playful work Constantius explores the nature of love an ...Show more
Selected Letters by Cicero
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!'Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome, and witnessed at first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny. His letters to friends and family are an aston ...Show more
Selected Poems and Songs by Robert Burns
$39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic, bawdy, democratic. They include 'To a M ...Show more