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 ...

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 ...

THE WATER BABIES (Hết hàng)
Author: Charles Kingsley
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007449460 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.’   Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom becomes lost and appears in Ellie’s bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in fright, down to the edge of a stream where he falls asleep. In his dreamlike world, he becomes a water baby, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THREE MEN IN A BOAT (Hết hàng)
Author: Jerome+K'>Jerome K. Jerome
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 ...

JO'S BOYS (Hết hàng)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 ...

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 ...