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, ...

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 ...

THE PLAYS OF OSCAR WILDE (Hết hàng)
Author: Oscar Wilde
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007902224 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.' Including some of Oscar Wilde's most well-known and infamous plays, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this collection of the infamous writer's works displays his brilliant, quick wit to its full glory. Wilde's pithy social comedies dissect the morals and idiosyncrasies of society in the 1890s and ...

ROBINSON CRUSOE (Hết hàng)
Author:
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007350841 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.'   Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a remote and desolate island. As he struggles to piece together a life for himself, Crusoe's physical, moral and spiritual values are tested to the limit. For 24 years he remains in solitude and learns to tame and master the island, until he finally comes across another human being. Considered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...