CANTERBURY TALES (Hết hàng)
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007449446 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
Full wise is he that can himselven knowe. Written at the end of the fourteenth century, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories told in Middle-English. Thirty pilgrims leave Southwark to travel to a shrine in Canterbury and become the narrators, telling each other stories of chivalrous romance, fable, parable, debate and comedy as they journey. Their accounts of the human condition remain as resonant today as when they were first written. Minh Khai ...

ORLANDO (Hết hàng)
Author: Virgina Woolf
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007558087 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.' Written for her lover Vita Sackville-West, 'Orlando' is Woolf's playfully subversive take on a biography, here tracing the fantastical life of Orlando. As the novel spans centuries and continents, gender and identity, we follow Orlando's adventures in love - from being a lord in the Elizabethan court to a lady in 1920s London. First published in ...

TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL (Hết hàng)
Author: Anne Bronte
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007449903 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
 'I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.' When Helen flees from her alcoholic husband in order to protect her son she defies societal convention. Earning a living as an artist, she becomes the mysterious tenant of Wildfell Hall as she hides herself away and uses her art to support her child. However, the beautiful and reclusive young woman soon begins to stir up malicious gossip and speculation. Captivated and drawn ...

WHAT KATY DID NEXT (Hết hàng)
Author: Susan Coolidge
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007925285 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
I mean to do something grand. I dom’t know what, yet: but when I’m grown up I shall out. The lanky, good-hearted tomboy who learns to be gentle and patient, is continued in this third instalment of Susan Coolidge's popular Katy series. When Mrs Ashe, a widower, discovers that her visiting nephew has scarlet fever, she sends her only daughter Amy to stay with the Carr family. Amy finds a true friend in Katy Carr, and Mrs Ashe invites Katy to join them on a trip to Europe.  The ...

THE WOMAN IN WHITE (Hết hàng)
Author: Wilkie Collins
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007902217 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
‘The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.’   One of the earliest works of ‘detective’ fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment. In 1859, the story caused a sensation with its readers, ...

KING SOLOMON'S MINES (Hết hàng)
Author: Henry Rider Haggard
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007350902 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
An amazing adventure set in Africa, against the backdrop of endless deserts and snowy mountains, Kings Solomon's Mines follows Allan Quartermain, in his quest to find his missing brother and unearth the fabled treasure of the biblical King's mines. Along the way, Allan and his companions are caught up in a tribal war and face fearful hardships, culminating in a final confrontation with the evil witch ...

SEX AND THE CITY (Hết hàng)
Author: Candace Bushnell
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780446617680 | Giá: 124,000 đ)
Enter a world where the sometimes shocking and often hilarious mating habits of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to clubs. Meet "Carrie," the quintessential young writer looking for love in all the wrong places..."Mr. Big," the business tycoon who drifts from one relationship to ...

AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (PAPERBACK) (Hết hàng)
Author: Jules Verne
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780451474285 | Giá: 104,000 đ)
Jules Verne s masterpiece of adventure fiction that has captured the imaginations of generations of readers and continues to enthrall us today. On October 2, 1872, an English gentleman makes a remarkable wager: He can travel around the entire world in a mere eighty days. Thus begins Jules Verne s classic novel, which remains unsurpassed in sheer storytelling entertainment. Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant, Passepartout, embark on a fantastic journey into a world filled with surprises, ...

AGATHA CHRISTIE - POIROT'S EARLY CASES (Hết hàng)
Agatha Christie
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780008164843 | Giá: 199,000 đ)
"One of the advantages, or disadvantages, of being a detective is that it brings you into contact with the criminal classes. And they can teach you some very interesting and curious things." With his career still in its formative years, the panache with which Hercule Poirot can solve even the most puzzling mystery is obvious. No sooner has Poirot unravelled the complexities surrounding the deaths of Lord Cronshaw and the popular actress, Coco Courtenay, than he is presented with seventeen other ...

ROB ROY (Hết hàng)
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007449866 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
‘Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.’ Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuous history of the Highlands in his classic adventure novel Rob Roy. Despite the book’s title, Frank Osbaldistone is the protagonist, travelling through England and the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt owed to his father by his cousin Rashleigh. On his journey he comes ...

SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (Hết hàng)
Author: Johann Wyss
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007449873 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Don't you sometimes feel that this is the kind of life we were meant to live on this earth? Everything we need, everything, right here, right at our fingertips.' Said to be inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Wyss' tale of a family stranded at sea and washed up on a tropical island has become a much-loved classic. As the Swiss pastor, his wife and four sons struggle to create a life for themselves on the island, they soon learn to use their own ingenuity and rely upon the natural ...

SHIRLEY (Hết hàng)
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007449897 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.' Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Bronte's only historical work, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Wealthy and independent, Shirley is very different from her friend Caroline, who has few prospects and is dependent on her uncle. Struggling mill owner Robert Moore considers marriage to the monied Shirley in order ...

A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN AND THREE GUINEAS (Hết hàng)
Author: Virginia Woolf
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007558063 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind...' Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, 'A Room of One's Own' interweaves Woolf's personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister. 'Three Guineas', Woolf's most impassioned polemic, came almost a decade later and broke new ground by challenging the very notions of ...

LITTLE WOMEN (Hết hàng)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007350995 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?'   A heart-warming tale of love, sisterhood and hardship during the New England Civil War, Little Women tells the story of the lovable March family. Meg, Beth, Jo and Amy try to support their mother at home while their father is away at war and enter into various scrapes and adventures as they do so. Alcott beautifully interweaves bad times and good as her characters struggle with the ...

HEIDI (Hết hàng)
Author: Johanna Spyri
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007449422 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Up on the Alp with grandfather is the loveliest spot in all the world.' Little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in his remote house in the Swiss Alps. She soon begins to love her life with her grandfather and makes friends with Peter, the goat-herder and his grandmother. Idyllic as her existence is, her aunt sends Heidi to live in Frankfurt to become a companion to the invalid daughter of a wealthy family although Heidi yearns to be back in the fresh air and freedom of the ...