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Wessex Tales
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy’s short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers.
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Les Miserables Volume One
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The first part of classic novel rich in both character portrayal and historical description. Characters such as the Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the detective Javert, and the figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter
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Les Miserables Volume Two
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The second part of Hugo’s masterpiece
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To the Lighthouse
Original price was: $12.00.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Provides the author’s own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children’s perceptions and desires, it is most clear when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War.
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The Waves
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.This book presents a searching exploration of individual and collective identity, and the observations and emotions of life, from the simplicity and surging optimism of youth to the vacancy and despair of middle-age.
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The Years / Between the Acts
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941).
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The Moonstone
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel’s cousi
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Antony and Cleopatra
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics
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As You Like It
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd.
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Henry IV Parts 1 & 2
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.This history play is lively in its interplay of political intrigue and boisterous comedy, subtle in the connections between high statecraft and low craftiness, exuberant in its range of vivid characters, and memorable in its thematic concern with honour,
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Henry V
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare’s history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages.
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Julius Caesar
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked.
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King Lear
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world’s literature.
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Measure for Measure
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Although this play ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare’s problem plays. It shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial severity and mercy, betw
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Much Ado About Nothing
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.This book has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare’s popular comedies. It describes the central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, which is combative until love prevails.
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Othello
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Desdemona’s love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. This novel renders racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation.
