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Daniel Deronda
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Follows lives of the beautiful but spoiled Gwendolene Harleth and selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, t
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The Best Short Stories
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce.
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Adam Bede
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, this book relates a story of seduction issuing in ‘the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis’.
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Our Mutual Friend
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.John Harmon returns to England as his father’s heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances – a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance.
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Diary of a Nobody
Original price was: $11.00.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For
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Ivanhoe
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, this title is packed with incidents – sieges, ambushes and combats – and characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Is
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage to America. It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin, but also for his g
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Age of Innocence
Original price was: $11.00.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton’s greatest achievements,The Age of Innocenceis not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the ‘eternal triangle’ of love.Set against the backdrop of u
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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Includes stories such as: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Cut-Glass Bowl, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, An Alcoholic Case, The Lees of Happiness, The Lost Decade and Babylon Revisited.
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Silas Marner
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Tells the story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner – a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England – and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie.
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Under the Greenwood Tree
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.A portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and irony, it is Hardy’s most bright, confident and optimistic novel.
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Middlemarch
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.An analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate. This title includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminat
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The Return of the Native
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The central figure of this novel is the returning “native”, Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye.
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Heart of Darkness
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.A tale of horror, set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century. The story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic b
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Presents a combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, this novel tells the story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous.
