WHAT KATY DID NEXT (Hết hàng)
Author: Susan Coolidge
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007925285 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
I mean to do something grand. I dom’t know what, yet: but when I’m grown up I shall out. The lanky, good-hearted tomboy who learns to be gentle and patient, is continued in this third instalment of Susan Coolidge's popular Katy series. When Mrs Ashe, a widower, discovers that her visiting nephew has scarlet fever, she sends her only daughter Amy to stay with the Carr family. Amy finds a true friend in Katy Carr, and Mrs Ashe invites Katy to join them on a trip to Europe.  The ...

THE WOMAN IN WHITE (Hết hàng)
Author: Wilkie Collins
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007902217 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
‘The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.’   One of the earliest works of ‘detective’ fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment. In 1859, the story caused a sensation with its readers, ...

JO'S BOYS (Hết hàng)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007558001 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world... See ten years after Link Men, the Plumfield boys - including rebellious Dan, adventurous Emil and creative Nat - are now grown up, and carving out their places in the world. As they deal with the challenges of growing up, finding careers and falling in love, their mother and guardian Jo remains at the heart of the family, steady in her love for her 'boys' as she steers them through young adulthood, and ...

DUBLINERS (Hết hàng)
Author: James Joyce
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007449408 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
‘One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.’ Revealing the truths and realities about Irish society in the early 20th century, Joyce’s Dubliners challenged the prevailing image of Dublin at the time. A group portrait made up of 15 short stories about the inhabitants of Joyce’s native city, he offers a subtle critique of his own town, imbuing the text with ...

MRS DALLOWAY (Hết hàng)
Author: Virgina Woolf
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007934409 | Giá: 54,000 đ)

FRANKENSTEIN (Hết hàng)
Author: Mary Shelley
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007350964 | Giá: 54,000 đ)

SHIRLEY (Hết hàng)
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007449897 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.' Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Bronte's only historical work, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Wealthy and independent, Shirley is very different from her friend Caroline, who has few prospects and is dependent on her uncle. Struggling mill owner Robert Moore considers marriage to the monied Shirley in order ...

A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN AND THREE GUINEAS (Hết hàng)
Author: Virginia Woolf
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007558063 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind...' Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, 'A Room of One's Own' interweaves Woolf's personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister. 'Three Guineas', Woolf's most impassioned polemic, came almost a decade later and broke new ground by challenging the very notions of ...

SILAS MARNER (Hết hàng)
Author: George Eliot
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007420148 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.' Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving his money and living a lonely life as a recluse. It is only when his money is ...

KIM (Hết hàng)
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007368594 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
"I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again.' Set against the backdrop of Britain and Russia's political struggle in central Asia, Kim, the son of a drunken Irish soldier grows up as a street-wise orphan in the city of Lahore. Upon befriending an aged Tibetan Lama, the playful and spirited Kim journeys with him across India, experiencing the exotic culture, religion and people of the subcontinent. On their travels they come across Kim's father's old army ...

THE WATER BABIES (Hết hàng)
Author: Charles Kingsley
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007449460 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.’   Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom becomes lost and appears in Ellie’s bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in fright, down to the edge of a stream where he falls asleep. In his dreamlike world, he becomes a water baby, ...

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 ...

KING SOLOMON'S MINES (Hết hàng)
Author: Henry Rider Haggard
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007350902 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
An amazing adventure set in Africa, against the backdrop of endless deserts and snowy mountains, Kings Solomon's Mines follows Allan Quartermain, in his quest to find his missing brother and unearth the fabled treasure of the biblical King's mines. Along the way, Allan and his companions are caught up in a tribal war and face fearful hardships, culminating in a final confrontation with the evil witch ...

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 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 ...