THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (Hết hàng)
Author: Lewis Carroll
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007350933 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.' In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in a bizarre and nonsensical place when she passes through a mirror and enters a looking-glass world where nothing is quite as it seems. From her guest appearance as a pawn in a chess match to her meeting with Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking Glass follows Alice on her curious adventure and shows Carroll's great skill at creating an imaginary world ...

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Hết hàng)
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (Hết hàng)
Author: James Joyce
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007449392 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.' Autobiographical in tone, Joyce's tale of Stephen Dedalus' journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development of an artist as he struggles to overcome the ingrained Catholic consciousness of his childhood - a family life governed by Irish history, religion and politics. Realistic and innovative in its approach, the ...

THE AENEID (Hết hàng)
Author: Virgil
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 0118247555269127 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
Written between 29 and 19 B.C., The Aeneid tells the legendary tale of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the heroic ancestor of the Romans. This epic poem tells the story of Aeneas' nomadic travels from Troy to Italy, followed by the Trojans' victorious war against the Latins. Following on from his appearance in The Iliad, Aeneas' disconnected wanderings and vague association with the founding of Rome were compiled by Virgil into a compelling, epic and fantastical ...

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

NORTH AND SOUTH (Hết hàng)
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007902255 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
‘But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.’ When Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire and moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North of England, her whole world changes. As her sympathy for the town’s mill workers grows, her sense of social injustice piques and she passionately fights their corner. However, just as she disputes the mill owner, John Thornton’s treatment of his workers, she cannot deny her growing ...

THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (Hết hàng)
Author: Anthony Hope
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007925339 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
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MOLL FLANDERS (Hết hàng)
Author: Daniel Defoe
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

TENDER IS THE NIGHT (Hết hàng)
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007449484 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
‘Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.'Set on the French Riviera in the 1920s, American Dick Diver and his wife Nicole are the epitome of chic, living a glamorous lifestyle and entertaining friends at their villa. Young film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives in France and becomes entranced by the couple. It is not long before she is attracted to the enigmatic Dick, but he and his wife hold dark secrets and as their marriage becomes more fractured, Fitzgerald ...

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN (Hết hàng)
Author: E. Nesbit
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007902163 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
...when the Green Dragon tore shrieking out of the mouth of its dark lair, which was the tunnel, all three children stood on the railing and waved their pocket-handkerchiefs without stopping to think whether they were clean handkerchiefs or the reverse.' When their father is mysteriously sent away, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis have to leave London with their mother to live in a cottage in the countryside. Finding comfort in the nearby railway station and friendship in Perks the Porter and the ...

MANSFIELD PARK (Hết hàng)
Author: Jane Austen
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

12 YEARS A SLAVE: A TRUE STORY (COLLINS CLASSICS) (Hết hàng)
Author: Solomon Northup
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007580422 | Giá: 68,000 đ)
Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love nd live for? What unhappines and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the bondsman’s chain was round me, and could not be shaken off. 1841: Solomon Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Taken from his family in New York State and forced to work on the cotton plantations in the Deep South, he spends the next twelve years in captivity ...

A LITTLE PRINCESS (Hết hàng)
Author: Frances Hodson Burnett
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007557950 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
‘Whatever comes,' she said, ‘cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside.'‘A Little Princess' tells the story of Sara Crewe, beloved daughter of the revered Captain Crewe. Sent to board at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, Sara is devastated when her adored father dies. Suddenly penniless, Sara is banished to an attic room where she is starved, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this exceptionally ...

THE PROFESSOR (COLLINS CLASSICS) (Hết hàng)
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (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 ...

LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY (COLLINS CLASSICS) (Hết hàng)
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007449927 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
About the book ‘Lord Dorincourt had occasion to wear his grim smile many a time as the days passed by. Indeed, as his  acquaintance with his grandson progressed, he wore the smile so often that there were moments when it almost lost its grimness.’  When young Cedric Errol’s father dies, he becomes heir to the fortune of his English grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, and must move from working-class New York to England. Bad-tempered, cantankerous and bitter, the old ...