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Selected Writings by Galileo
29.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This generous selection from Galileo's writings contains all the essential texts. Newly translated by Mark Davie and William R. Shea, the contents include full representation from his scientific masterpieces, his contributions to the debate on science and religion, and key documents from his trial befo ...Show more
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.' Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and it contains some of the best examples of his talent as a writer of short fiction. Often overshadowed by his maj ...Show more
The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Respectable people...What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand pro ...Show more
The Bhagavad Gita by .
13.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I have heard the supreme mystery, yoga, from Krishna, from the lord of yoga himself.' Thus ends the Bhagavad Gita, the most famous episode from the great Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata. In its eighteen short chapters Krishna's teaching leads the warrior Arjuna from perplexity to understanding and corre ...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)
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | 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
16.00 NZD
Category: Literature | 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
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics | 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
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This new edition of Emily Bronte's classic 1847 novel uses the authoritative Clarendon text. Patsy Stoneman's introduction considers the bewildering variety of critical interpretation to which the novel has been subject, as well as offering some provocative new insights for the modern reader.
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