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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition by H.W. Fowler
$59.99 NZD
$62.99 (4% off)
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference | Series: Oxford World's Classics
No book had more influence on twentieth-century attitudes to the English language in Britain than Henry Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. It rapidly became the standard work of reference for the correct use of English in terms of choice of words, grammar, and style. Much loved for his firm ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you ca'n't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.' The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies for children, ...Show more
French Decadent Tales by Stephen Romer (University of Tours Ma??tre de Conf??rences, Tours University)
$23.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siecle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literatur ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Author) , David Wright (Poet and translator) (Translated by) , Christopher Cannon (Professor of English, New York University) (Introduction and notes by)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the way to Canter ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Perrault
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!' Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day. Pe ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Wilde did not converse - he told tales.' Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. They have never lacked readers and admirers, George Orwell and W. B. Yeats among them. The stories give free rein to Wilde's origi ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ruth Prigozy (Editor)
$18.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
$12.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.' So says Rat to Mole, as he introduces him to the delights of the river and his friends Toad, the spirit of rebellion, and Badger, the spirit of England. But it is a world whe ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia. Ball ...Show more
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