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Behind a Mask by Louisa May Alcott
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
Louisa May Alcott's Behind a Mask is an ingenious study of deception and betrayal, and of the ruthless power of a woman scorned. When demure Scottish governess Jean Muir arrives at a wealthy household, the family couldn't be more thrilled with their new young resident, and find themselves quite beguiled ...Show more
Carlyle's House and Other Sketches by Virginia Woolf
$19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics | Reading Level: very good
This title is considered to be a lost work by Virginia Woolf.
Commonplace by Christina Rossetti
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
The only edition in print of a delightful novella of love, matrimony and sisterhood, firmly in the tradition of Jane Austen, 'Commonplace' displays the imaginative flair and linguistic prowess that mark Rossetti's best-loved verse
Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
$27.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Hesperus Classics
By turns witty, insightful, self-deprecating and philosophical, in these essays Lamb offers an unusually warm, human glimpse of life in a circle that included such luminaries as Coleridge, Wordsworth and William Hazlitt. Published in 'The London Magazine' in the early 1820s, these often nostalgic essays ...Show more
How to Mix Drinks or the Bon Vivant's Companion: The Bartender's Guide by Jerry Thomas
$29.99 NZD
Category: Cookery | Series: Hesperus Classics
Jerry Thomas's Bartender's Guide is THE original cocktail book; the first time today's Classics were set down in print, full of jiggers and ponys, this unique volume gives an intriguing insight into a world gone by but, fortunately for the connoisseur, or just those who might like a tipple now and then, ...Show more
Hyde Park Gate News by Virginia Woolf
$49.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. They called the paper 'Hyde Park Gate News', and the original manuscripts are published here for the first time. Ing ...Show more
My Life by Giuseppe Garibaldi
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics Ser.
Translated for the first time into English from Garibaldi's original manuscripts, these memoirs provide an authentic reading of the life and times of one of the most remarkable figures in history. The life of Giuseppe Garibaldi--distinguished by superhuman courage, personal tragedy, and tireless struggl ...Show more
Scientific Lives by John Aubrey
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Hesperus Classics
'The honourable Robert Boyle esq., the son of Richard Boyle, the first Earl of Cork, was born at Lismore in the county of Cork. He was nursed by an Irish nurse, after the Irish manner, where they put the child in a pendulous satchel instead of a cardle, with a slit for the child's head to peep out.' Thi ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics - Poetry
A new verse translation of the first part of Dante's poetic masterpiece by poet and John Florio Translation Prize winner, J. G. Nichols, this dual-language edition also features an Introduction by M. L. McLaughlin, Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. It conta ...Show more
The Lake of the Bees by Theodor Storm
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Described by the author himself as a "pearl of German poetry,” The Lake of the Beesis one of his earliest novellas. In it, he explores the bittersweet sorrow of memory. An old man looks back on his life and remembers Elizabeth--the only woman he ever loved. The two of them had shared their childhood, ...Show more
The Lesson of the Master by James Henry
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
On the brink of a promising career, ambitious young author Paul Overt is thrilled when he is introduced to the celebrated novelist Henry St George, and even more so when the older man - although now considered to be past his prime - takes him under his wing. St George is full of wise counsel for the you ...Show more
The Secret Life of Nuns by Pietro Aretino
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
This first unabridged English translation of an Italian masterpiece by the originator of European pornographic writing is the first in a series of 'The Secret Life of...' books by Aretino offering a delightfully shocking peek at what goes on behind closed doors. A prequel to The School of Whoredom (also ...Show more
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