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Five Children and It (Psammead #1) (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by E. Nesbit
$7.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes...it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur...and it had hands and feet like a monkey's'. 'It' was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When ...Show more
Heart of the Antarctic and South by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Ernest Shackleton led two Antarctic expeditions, and died shortly after the beginning of a third. His first expedition was not a total success (they did not reach the South Pole), and the second was, in some senses, a total failure (they never reached the Antarctic mainland at all). Yet it is the second ...Show more
Heidi (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Johanna Spyri
$7.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl's power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years ago. It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, an ...Show more
Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Stories by H. G. Wells
$7.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder, Lecturer in Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University 'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this time I will burn out all the animal, this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' declares Doctor Mo ...Show more
Kidnapped & Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson
$7.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped remains one of the most exciting stories ever written. Young David Balfour, orphaned then betrayed by his Uncle Ebenezer, his so-called guardian, falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of the Jacobite cause. Shipwreck, murder and dramatic escape ...Show more
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
$7.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befrie ...Show more
King Solomon's Mines & Allan Quatermain by H. RIDER HAGGARD
$7.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
In King Solomon's Mines, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good persuade Allan Quatermain to help them find Sir Henry's brother George, who has gone missing in the unexplored African interior while searching for the legendary treasure trove of a lost kingdom. Quatermain agrees to lead the expedition, though ...Show more
Kipps and the History of MR Polly by H. G. Wells
$7.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
These comic novels will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by circumstance. Their central characters, Artie Kipps and Alfred Polly, are prisoners of their modest social class, limited education, dull work, and sterile relationships. In Wells' hands they break out of the cages that society ...Show more
Knock Three Times (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Marion St. John Webb
$9.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Molly is desperately disappointed when, instead of the longed-for silver bangle, her Aunt Phoebe sends her a small, grey, pumpkin-shaped pincushion for her birthday. But at night, when the full moon shines, the pumpkin turns out to be a magical one. It leads Molly and her twin brother Jack into a strang ...Show more
The Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
$18.00 NZD
Category: Kids Retro Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Sally Minogue (Intro and Notes by); Keith Carabine (Contribution by)
$13.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
'O Jem, her father won't listen to me, and it's you must save Mary You're like a brother to her' Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her ...Show more
Middlemarch by George Eliot
$7.99 NZD
$13.99 (42% off)
Category: Not a Book | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and i ...Show more