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 ...

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Hết hàng)
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007368662 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.' Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper's story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron tribe, they soon meet Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his Mohican Indian ...

BEOWULF (Hết hàng)
Translated by: John Lesslie Hall
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007925407 | Giá: 54,000 đ)

MOLL FLANDERS (Hết hàng)
Author: Daniel Defoe
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007368563 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my name or the account of my family to this work.' Born into the seedy world of Newgate Prison and abandoned as a baby at six months old, Moll Flanders soon learns that she can only rely on herself. Her story is an unapologetic one of bigamy, prostitution ...

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 ...

MANSFIELD PARK (Hết hàng)
Author: Jane Austen
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007420292 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.' Humble and lowly, a young Fanny Price goes to live with her wealthy Aunt and Uncle at their grand house, Mansfield Park. Growing up with her privileged and spoilt cousins, the Bertrams, she lives in the shadows of their glamorous lives, but manages to find an ally in her cousin, Edmund. When Henry and Mary ...

DUBLINERS (Hết hàng)
Author: James Joyce
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 ...

THE PROFESSOR (COLLINS CLASSICS) (Hết hàng)
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007920686 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
About the Book There is a climax to everything, to every state of feeling as well as to every position in life. Willliam Crimsworth is an orphaned young teacher, with no family to direct his ambitions. As he attemps to forge a new life in Brussels on his own terms. William discovers his independent spirit in matters of the heart. Howerver. With only his own youthful moral compass as a guide, he soon finds himseft head of the girls’ shool where he teachers, and gentle vove for one of his ...

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, ...

MRS DALLOWAY (Hết hàng)
Author: Virgina Woolf
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007934409 | Giá: 54,000 đ)

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 ...

FRANKENSTEIN (Hết hàng)
Author: Mary Shelley
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007350964 | Giá: 54,000 đ)