CANTERBURY TALES (Hết hàng)
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

THE PLAYS OF OSCAR WILDE (Hết hàng)
Author: Oscar Wilde
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

ROB ROY (Hết hàng)
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (Hết hàng)
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

ORLANDO (Hết hàng)
Author: Virgina Woolf
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

ROBINSON CRUSOE (Hết hàng)
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Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

THREE MEN IN A BOAT (Hết hàng)
Author: Jerome+K'>Jerome K. Jerome
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007449439 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people. 'Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey through the English waterways full of anecdotes, and farcical incidents with Montmorency wreaking havoc along the way. As amusing and evocative now as when it was first ...

SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (Hết hàng)
Author: Johann Wyss
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

A STUDY IN SCARLET: A SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE (Hết hàng)
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL (Hết hàng)
Author: Anne Bronte
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

JO'S BOYS (Hết hàng)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007558001 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world... See ten years after Link Men, the Plumfield boys - including rebellious Dan, adventurous Emil and creative Nat - are now grown up, and carving out their places in the world. As they deal with the challenges of growing up, finding careers and falling in love, their mother and guardian Jo remains at the heart of the family, steady in her love for her 'boys' as she steers them through young adulthood, and ...

SHIRLEY (Hết hàng)
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

SILAS MARNER (Hết hàng)
Author: George Eliot
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

WHAT KATY DID NEXT (Hết hàng)
Author: Susan Coolidge
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

DUBLINERS (Hết hàng)
Author: James Joyce
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007449408 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
‘One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.’ Revealing the truths and realities about Irish society in the early 20th century, Joyce’s Dubliners challenged the prevailing image of Dublin at the time. A group portrait made up of 15 short stories about the inhabitants of Joyce’s native city, he offers a subtle critique of his own town, imbuing the text with ...