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Wuthering Heights 4th Norton Critical Edition

By: Emile Bronte

Price: $26.95

Publisher: USA, W. W. Norton: 2002

Seller ID: A1218

ISBN: 0393978893

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

For the Fourth Edition, the editor collated the 1847 text with the two modern texts (Norton's William J. Sale collation and the Clarendon), and found a great number of variants, including accidentals. This discovery led to changes in the body of the Norton Critical Edition text that are explained in the preface. New to "Backgrounds and Contexts" are additional letters, a compositional chronology, related prose, and reviews of the 1847 text. "Criticism" collects five important assessments of Wuthering Heights, three of them new to the Fourth Edition, including Lin Haire-Sargeant's essay on film...
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Wuthering Heights 2nd Edition Oxford World's Classics

By: Emily Bronte

Price: $14.95

Publisher: UK, Oxford University Press: 2009

Seller ID: A1219

ISBN: 0199541892

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

'I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind ...' Discovered on the streets of Liverpool, Heathcliff is rescued by Mr Earnshaw and taken to the remote Yorkshire farmhouse of Wuthering Heights. Earnshaw's daughter Catherine rapidly forms a passionate attachment to him, but when Catherine's brother takes over the Heights, Heathcliff is lowered to the position of a barely-tolerated farmhand. When Catherine decides to marry the refined Edgar Linton instead, Heathcliff turns revenger. He determines to degrade not only those who sought to degrade him, but their children after them. Wuthering He...
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Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Bronte

Price: $5.95

Publisher: UK, Harper Collins: 2010

Seller ID: A1221

ISBN: 0007350813

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

â€˜Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?â€™ Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense and wildly passionate Heathcliff tells the story of his life, his all-consuming love for Catherine Earnshaw and the doomed outcome of that relationship, leading to his revenge. Poetic, complex and grand in its scope, Emily BrontÃ«â€™s masterpiece is considered one of the most unique gothic novels of its time. About the Author: Emily Jane Bront�...
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Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Bronte

Price: $12.95

Publisher: UK, Penguin: 2003

Seller ID: A1220

ISBN: 0141439556

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance is now visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of The Bronte Myth, looks at the wa...
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Wuthering Heights # Signature Editions

By: Emily Bronte

Price: $10.95

Publisher: USA, Barnes & Noble: 2012

Seller ID: A1222

ISBN: 1435136543

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Please note the pages on this book have been produced with bevelled or rough edge to create an old style look. The publisher has deliberately chosen to produce the book this way. Handsomely produced in hardcover at a very affordable price, Barnes & Noble Signature Editions have been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. Each volume includes an introduction, informative notes and a chronology of the writer's life and times to enable the reader to gain a deeper understanding of these enduring works. About the Author: Emily Jane BrontÃ« was a British nov...
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This Side of Paradise and Other Classic Works * TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK *

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Price: $29.95

Publisher: USA, Sterling: 2015

Seller ID: 9781435146198

ISBN: 1435146190

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This is a beautiful gift edition of the classic novel. It was an instant bestseller upon its release, capturing the spirit of the roaring twenties. If the 'Roaring Twenties' are remembered as the era of 'flaming youth', it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who lit the fire. His semi-autobiographical first novel, This Side of Paradise, became an instant best-seller and established an image of seemingly carefree, party-mad young men and women out to create a new morality for a new, post-war America. It traces the early life of Amory Blaine from the end of prep school through Princeton to the start of an ...
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The Great Gatsby [Popular Penguins]

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Australia, Penguin: 2008

Seller ID: 9780141037639

ISBN: 0141037636

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby brilliantly captures the disillusion of a society obsessed with wealth and status. Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby appears to have it all, yet he yearns for the one thing that will always be out of his reach, the absence of which renders his life of glittering parties and bright young things ultimately hollow. Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream is often cited as the Great American Novel.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Price: $6.95

Publisher: UK, Wordsworth Editions: 1999

Seller ID: 000896

ISBN: 1840224029

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only 'repentance, justice and mercy' will prevent the onset of 'the wrath of Almighty God!'.
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The Desert Column

By: Ion L. Idriess

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Australia, ETT Imprint: 2017

Seller ID: A1253

ISBN: 1925416879

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

'One hundred years after the charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba in October 1917...The Desert Column is based on the diaries that he kept through out the war. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess' earliest works. Harry Chauvel noted in the foreword that it was the only book of the campaign that to his knowledge was "viewed entirely from the private soldier's point of view"...Idriess served as a sniper with the 5th Australian Light Horse. Enlisting in 1914, he began his diary "as we crowded the decks off Gallipoli" and he continued writing until returning to Australia...The di...
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Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes

Price: $6.95

Publisher: UK, Wordsworth Editions: 1992

Seller ID: 000867

ISBN: 1853260363

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Translated by P. A. Motteux With an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Boyd, University College, Cork Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, thin knight and his short, fat squire, Sancho Panza, have found their way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Supposedly intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction of the...
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The Jerilderie Letter : Ned Kelly

By: Ned Kelly

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Australia, Text Publishing: 2012

Seller ID: 9781921922336

ISBN: 1921922338

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Introduced by Alex McDermott 'I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother not to be pitied also who has no alternative only to put up with the brutal and cowardly conduct of a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped splaw-footed sons of Irish Bailiffs or english landlords which is better known as Officers of Justice or Victorian Police...... ' The Jerilderie Letter is Ned Kelly's manifesto, the story of a widow's son outlawed.
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Kim

By: Rudyard Kipling

Price: $6.95

Publisher: UK, Wordsworth Editions: 1994

Seller ID: 004396

ISBN: 1853260991

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

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 befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest. Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him, the lama seeks redemption from the "Wheel of Life". Kim becomes involved in the "Great Game", undertaking espionage for the British rulers. This engros...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By: Victor Hugo

Price: $6.95

Publisher: UK, Wordsworth Editions: 1998

Seller ID: 000893

ISBN: 1853260681

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination, caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a host of unforgettable characters - amongst them, Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, hopelessly in love with the gypsy girl Esmeralda, the satanic priest Claude Frollo, Clopin Trouillefou, king of the beggars, and ...
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Les Miserables: Volume One

By: Victor Hugo

Price: $6.95

Publisher: UK, Wordsworth Editions: 1997

Seller ID: 000894

ISBN: 1853260851

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862). One of the great classics of western literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae. The reader is also treated to the unforg...
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Les Miserables: Volume Two

By: Victor Hugo

Price: $6.95

Publisher: UK, Wordsworth Editions: 1997

Seller ID: 000895

ISBN: 1853260509

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862). One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae. Volume 2 of 2
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Les Miserables

By: Victor Hugo

Price: $14.95

Publisher: UK, Vintage Classics: 2009

Seller ID: 000897

ISBN: 0099529963

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL. Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Miserables is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. It is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the street children, the prostitutes and the criminals. In telling the story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, and his efforts to reform his ways and care for the little orphan girl he rescues from a life of cruelty, Victor Hugo drew attention to the plight of the poor and oppressed. Les M...
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Category: Classics