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Mansfield Park: (Classics hardcover)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $34.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics Hardcover: April 2012

Seller ID: 48090

ISBN: 0141197706

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste ...
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Mansfield Park

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Trident Press International: January 2001

Seller ID: 50083

ISBN: 1582791759

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Persuasion (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $3.95

Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company: January 1998

Seller ID: 55486

ISBN: 1853260568

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature, University of Essex.

What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances.

A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is n...
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Emma (Be Classics)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Puffin Books: September 2011

Seller ID: 61082

ISBN: 0142419680

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A TIMELESS CLASSIC Emma Woodhouse believes herself to be an excellent matchmaker, though she herself does not plan on marrying. But as she meddles in the relationships of others, she causes confusion and misunderstandings throughout the village, and she just may be overlooking a true love of her own.
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Flaubert's Parrot

By: Barnes, Julian

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Pan Books Ltd: December 1997

Seller ID: 21661

ISBN: 0330289764

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Spins out a multiple mystery of obsession and betrayal (both scholarly and romantic). This book creates an exuberant enquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns around to shape it.
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First Love and Other Shorts (Beckett, Samuel)

By: Beckett, Samuel

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Grove Press: January 1994

Seller ID: 52498

ISBN: 0802151310

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Kiplling A Selection of His Stories and Poems

By: Beecroft, John

Price: $12.95

Seller ID: 38847

ISBN: 281BQL1002014

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Oroonoko (Norton Critical Editions)

By: Behn, Aphra

Price: $9.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: February 1997

Seller ID: 14258

ISBN: 0393970140

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Historical Backgrounds" is an especially rich collection of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonizers and slaves in the new world. Topically arranged-"Montaigne on America," "The Settling of Surinam," "Observers of Slavery, 1654-1712," "After Oroonoko: Noble Africans in Europe," and "Opinions on Slavery"-these selections create a revealing context for Behn's unusual story. Illustrations and maps are also included.

"Criticism" begins with an overview of responses to Behn and Oroonoko, from learned and popular writers of her time to Sir Walter Scott...
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Henderson the Rain King (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: June 1996

Seller ID: 29864

ISBN: 0140189424

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, his passion for life, and, most importantly, his inadvertant success in bringing rain have made him a god-like figure among the tribes.
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The Complete Mapp & Lucia Volume One:Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp, Lucia in London (Wordsworth Classics)

By: Benson, E.F.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.: April 2011

Seller ID: 28643

ISBN: 1840226730

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Lucia is one of the great comic characters in English literature. Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, 'as by right divine' rules over the toy kingdom of 'Riseholme' based on the Cotswold village of Broadway. Her long-suffering husband Pepino is 'her prince-consort', the outrageously camp Georgie is her 'gentleman-in-waiting', the village green is her 'parliament', and her subjects, such as Daisy Quantock, are hapless would-be 'Bolsheviks'. In Lucia...
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Arms and the Man

By: Bernard Shaw

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co: 1964

Seller ID: 2796

ISBN: 281BQL1000175

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Lorna Doone

By: Blackmore, R.D.

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Romance Classics / Trident Press: January 2001

Seller ID: 50081

ISBN: 1582791775

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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LORNA DOONE. A Romance of Exmoor.

By: Blackmore, Richard Doddridge.

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Publisher: January 1900

Seller ID: 25173

ISBN: 0710502230

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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A Candle to Light the Sun

By: Blondal, Patricia

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New Canadian Library: 1960

Seller ID: 38038

ISBN: 281BQL1001974

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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The Norton Introduction to Literature (Ninth Edition Media Version)

By: Booth, Alison; Hunter, J. Paul; Mays, Kelly J.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: February 2007

Seller ID: 45389

ISBN: 0393108880

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the Media Version, the contextual approach to literature is enhanced by ten illustrated slideshows, 50 literary workshops, color-coded MLA citation guidelines, citation practice drills, a brief guide to writing research papers, and an interactive tutorial on avoiding plagiarism. With these new media resources, two new Exploring Contexts chapters, refreshed pedagogy and writing help, and 54 new selections, The Norton Introduction to Literature is more flexible and attractive than ever.
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The Man Outside

By: Borchert, Wolfgang

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation: June 1971

Seller ID: 27301

ISBN: 0811200116

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This collection of Borchert's most important prose, translated by A. D. Porter with an Introduction by Stephen Spender, includes the complete text of the title play, as well as 39 stories and assorted pieces that comprise much of the author's output during the two short, fever-ridden years in which he wrote, complemented by Kay Boyle's appreciative Foreword.
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Wuthering Heights

By: Bront?, Emily

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks: March 2003

Seller ID: 34027

ISBN: 0439228913

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Against a background of English moors in the eighteenth century, the lives of two families become intertwined through marriage, passion, and the dominating force of a man called Heathcliff.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Penguin Classics)

By: Bronte, Anne

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: June 1996

Seller ID: 33768

ISBN: 0140434747

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence and creative freedom, from the youngest of the Bront sisters
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shocking details of the...
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Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: BRONTE, ANNE

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Lb May & Assoc Inc: December 1999

Seller ID: 35188

ISBN: 1853264881

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christchurch University College

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious 'tenant' of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband. Defying convention, Helen leaves her husband to protect their young son from his father's influence, and earns her own living as an artist. Whilst in hiding at Wildfell Hall, she encounters Gilbe...
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Agnes Grey

By: Bronte, Anne

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Trident Press International:

Seller ID: 50086

ISBN: 1582791805

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Classic Literature