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Evolutionary Writings (Including the Autobiographies) by Charles Darwin & James A. Secord (ed.)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks Ser.
On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together the key chapters of his most important and accessible books, including the Jou ...Show more
JOHN BARLEYCORN by JACK LONDON JOHN SUTHERLAND
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the b ...Show more
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil; Mike Mitchell; Ritchie Robertson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate'Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Torless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he stru ...Show more
The Lives of the Poets : A Selection by Samuel Johnson (ed Roger Lonsdale)
$32.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as w ...Show more
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