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A Christmas Carol
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that genial
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The Secret Garden
Original price was: $11.70.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.Mary Lennox was horrid, selfish and spoilt, and was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the entrance to a secret garden a change overcomes her. With a local boy and her cousin the three children work magic in themsel
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The Descent of Man
Original price was: $11.70.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.The Descent of Man is Darwin’s second book, first published in 1871. In this edition, Darwin applies evolutionary theory to humans and details his theory of sexual selection.
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Resurrection
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Resurrection proceeds from brothel to court-room, stinking cells to offices of state, luxury apartments to filthy life in Siberia. The ultimate crisis of moral responsibility embroils not only the famous author and his hero, but also you and me. Can we he
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The Essential Kafka: The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and
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The Invisible Man and The Food of the Gods
Original price was: $11.00.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Brought together for the first time in this new Wordsworth edition, The Invisible Man and The Food of the Gods are two of Wells’s most entertaining and thought-provoking works.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Stories
Original price was: $11.00.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.This volume unites four of Wells’ liveliest and most engaging tales of the strange evolution and behaviour of animals – including human beings. The Island of Doctor Moreau is followed by three fantastic yet chillingly plausible short stories of human-anim
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The Time Machine and Other Works
Original price was: $11.00.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Contains: The Time Machine; When The Sleeper Awakes; The Chronic Argonauts. In these ‘scientific romances’ H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present; his aim is to provoke rather than predict.
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The Complete Richard Hannay Stories
Original price was: $11.00.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Here are all five of the adventures featuring Richard Hannay, the hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps.
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The Innocents Abroad
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Mark Twain’s voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867 produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life.
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Desperate Remedies
Original price was: $11.00.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with “Desperate Remedies”, a ‘sensation novel’ in the mode of Wilkie Collins.
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Notes From Underground & Other Stories
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.A collection of Dostoevsky’s short stories, including Notes From The Underground which is considered to be one of the first works of existential literature.
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Original price was: $11.00.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband’s return from the trenches of the First World War, partially paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes the chance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her for
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The Well of Loneliness
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The Well of Loneliness was banned for obscenity when published in 1928. It became an international bestseller, and for decades was the single most famous lesbian novel.
