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, ...

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 ...

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (Hết hàng)
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007902262 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
One thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.’ Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sentimental and moral tale of slaves attempting to secure their freedom was one of the most popular books of the nineteenth century. Centred round the long-suffering Uncle Tom, a devout Christian slave who endures ...

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 ...

PORTRAIT OF A LADY (Hết hàng)
Author: Henry James
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007902286 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.' Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future - one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife. Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels even more inclined to turn down two eligible suitors on the basis that she is a ...

LORD EDGWARE DIES (PAPERBACK) (Hết hàng)
Author: Agatha Christie
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780008164850 | Giá: 199,000 đ)
Agatha Christie’s famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to ‘get rid of’ her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn’t help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A STUDY IN SCARLET: A SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE (Hết hàng)
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007558049 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it. After a harrowing tour in Afghanistan, Dr Watson returns to London to convalesce at 221B Baker Street, home to the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes. Their lives are irrevocably thrown together by news that a man has been found dead in a grimy 'ill-omened' house, with the word 'rache' - German for revenge - written in blood on the wall. This grisly discovery is complicated further by the ...

SILAS MARNER (Hết hàng)
Author: George Eliot
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007420148 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.' Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving his money and living a lonely life as a recluse. It is only when his money is ...

KIM (Hết hàng)
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007368594 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
"I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again.' Set against the backdrop of Britain and Russia's political struggle in central Asia, Kim, the son of a drunken Irish soldier grows up as a street-wise orphan in the city of Lahore. Upon befriending an aged Tibetan Lama, the playful and spirited Kim journeys with him across India, experiencing the exotic culture, religion and people of the subcontinent. On their travels they come across Kim's father's old army ...