Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Man
$69.95 AUD
Category: Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner's great masterpiece is a major literary event. Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts-The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Jos ...Show more
The Great Comedies and Tragedies by William Shakespeare
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth World Literature S.
The Comedies with Introductions by Judith Buchanan. These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of m ...Show more
Make Way for Lucia - The Complete Mapp & Lucia - Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp Including 'The Male Impersonator', Lucia in London, Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress (also Known as The Worshipful Lucia), & Trouble for Lucia by E F Benson
$89.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Make way for Lucia is a series of novels written by E.F Benson. They feature hilarious incidents in the lives of upper-middle class people in the 1920s and '30s. The characters vie for social standing in an extremely snobby world. In the series the two main characters - sophisticated Lucia and frumpy Mi ...Show more
The Illustrated Book of Shakespeare's Verse (HB) by L. K. Bulbeck (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Foiled Gift Bks.
Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest English-lagnguage playwright of all time. He was a natural poet, writing some long narrative poems, many sonnets and much of his plays in rhyming or blank verse. His sonnets have been praised as a profound meditation on the nature of love, sexual passion, procreat ...Show more
Journey to the End of Night by Celine Louis-Ferdinand
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Told in the first person, the novel is based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA - where he worked for a while at the Ford factory in Detroit - and later as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris. Celine's disgust with human folly, ...Show more
Call of the Wild & White Fang by Jack London
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian ...Show more
Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens c ...Show more
Complete Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens’ lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabr ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later lif ...Show more
De Profundis, Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Includes the works of Oscar Wilde such as "De Profundis", "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", "The Soul of Man under Socialism" and "The Decay of Lying" and "The Critic as Artist".
The Red & the Black by Stendhal
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (revised by Moya Longstaffe). With an Introduction and Notes by Moya Longstaffe. The Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great 'realist' novel of the nineteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces an ...Show more
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamoris ...Show more