King Lear by William Shakespeare; John Gilbert (Illustrator); Robert Mighall (Introduction by)
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
King LearBy William ShakespeareKing Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and traged ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Lewis Carroll
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, the epitome of sense, desires a man who is promised to another woman. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the epitome of sensibili ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: near fine
Pride and PrejudiceBy Jane AustenElizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Persuasionby Jane AustenAnne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her rest ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Victor Hugo
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men- Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to murder Phoebus, who attempts to rape her, Esmeralda is senten ...Show more
Sons For The Return Home: (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
No Fear The Canterbury tales by Sparknotes,
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: No Fear Ser.
Why be frightened of the most wonderful collection of tales ever written? No Fear: The Canterbury Tales makes it simple for students to love Chaucer's masterpiece in all its humor, bawdiness, and poignancy. It features the original text on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand tran ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins) by Katherine Mansfield
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: Very Good
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emo ...Show more