SHIRLEY (Hết hàng)
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 & Poetry (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 ...

LITTLE WOMEN (Hết hàng)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007350995 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?'   A heart-warming tale of love, sisterhood and hardship during the New England Civil War, Little Women tells the story of the lovable March family. Meg, Beth, Jo and Amy try to support their mother at home while their father is away at war and enter into various scrapes and adventures as they do so. Alcott beautifully interweaves bad times and good as her characters struggle with the ...

PORTRAIT OF A LADY (Hết hàng)
Author: Henry James
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780007902286 | Giá: 54,000 đ)
'Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.' Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future - one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife. Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels even more inclined to turn down two eligible suitors on the basis that she is a ...

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (Hết hàng)
Author: James Joyce
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 ...

NORTH AND SOUTH (Hết hàng)
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 ...

SILAS MARNER (Hết hàng)
Author: George Eliot
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 ...

TENDER IS THE NIGHT (Hết hàng)
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 ...

12 YEARS A SLAVE: A TRUE STORY (COLLINS CLASSICS) (Hết hàng)
Author: Solomon Northup
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 ...

LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY (COLLINS CLASSICS) (Hết hàng)
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 ...

DUBLINERS (Hết hàng)
Author: James Joyce
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 ...

WHAT KATY DID NEXT (Hết hàng)
Author: Susan Coolidge
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 ...

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

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

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN (Hết hàng)
Author: E. Nesbit
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (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 ...