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The Bible According to Mark Twain (Paperback, 1st Touchstone ed): Mark Twain The Bible According to Mark Twain (Paperback, 1st Touchstone ed)
Mark Twain; Edited by Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. McCullough
R540 R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Save R88 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An indispensable and provocative compilation of witty essays dealing with Biblical stories and their inconsistencies from America's master satirist, Mark Twain.
"The Bible According to Mark Twain" is a selection of essays spanning forty years of his writing career, which touch on and satirize stories and figures from the Bible. In his characteristic style, Twain illustrates the inherent comedy and inconsistencies found within Holy Scripture, simultaneously entertaining and provoking questions about man's place in the world and his relationship with God. An important installment in the Twain canon, this book is perfect for fans of America's master satirist.

The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette (Paperback): Hannah Webster Foster The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette (Paperback)
Hannah Webster Foster
R475 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster’s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country’s morality.

Two Friends and Other 19th-Century American Lesbian Stories: By American Women Writers (Paperback): Susan Koppelman, Various Two Friends and Other 19th-Century American Lesbian Stories: By American Women Writers (Paperback)
Susan Koppelman, Various; Edited by Susan Koppelman
R554 R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Save R73 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Crime and Punishment (Paperback): Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
R240 R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Save R46 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. Crime And Punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil ... a man who cannot escape his own conscience.

The Phantom of the Opera (Paperback, Reissue): Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera (Paperback, Reissue)
Gaston Leroux; Translated by Lowell Bair 1
R177 R152 Discovery Miles 1 520 Save R25 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The story of the monster man whose horrible deformities cause fear and terror, his search for love and acceptance, and his haunting of the opera house in Paris is told in very simple language. Beautifully adapted, the story flows along so easily that readers will be immediately caught up in the tangle of events and emotions. McMullan conveys all of the anger, grief, joy, and love that make the phantom a truly believable character. Will attract reluctant readers."--School Library Journal.  


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Little Women (Paperback): Louisa May Alcott Little Women (Paperback)
Louisa May Alcott
R185 R161 Discovery Miles 1 610 Save R24 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Little Women is one of the  best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented  Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons  of poverty and of growing up in New England during  the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays,  pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all  ages have become a part of this remarkable family  and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the  circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part  I. Part II, chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a  young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a  writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits  and unexpected romance. Based on Louise May  Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of  nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality  that has endeared it to generations of readers.

The Pathfinder - Or the Inland Sea (Paperback): The Pathfinder - Or the Inland Sea (Paperback)
1
R429 R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Save R63 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This, the fourth of Cooper's celebrated Leatherstocking Tales, continues the adventures of Natty Bumppo, noble woodsman, champion of the Indians, and hero of the American frontier. In The Pathfinder Cooper undertook the hazardous experiment of resurrecting one of his most popular characters, for he had killed off Bumppo in his previous incarnation, the Trapper, in The Prairie (1827). But in 1839, at his English publisher's instigation, Cooper began work on a romance, setting the story of his hero's unsuccessful courtship on the mist-shrouded shores of Lake Ontario during the French and Indian Wars.

Bayou Folk & a Night in Acadie (Paperback): Kate Chopin Bayou Folk & a Night in Acadie (Paperback)
Kate Chopin 1
R564 R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Save R73 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In one volume, the two short-story collections that established Kate Chopin as one of America's best-loved realist writers.

Horace (Paperback, 1st ed): Zack Rogow Horace (Paperback, 1st ed)
Zack Rogow; Translated by Zack Rogow
R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first English-language edition of a major work by George Sand. Translated by the winner of the 1994 BOMC-PEN Translation Award. "A courageous work, nowadays unjustly neglected". -- Renee Winegarten "Sand develops her most advanced political, social and sexual views in this classic work". -- Feminist Bookstore News

The Spy (Paperback, New Ed): James Fenimore Cooper The Spy (Paperback, New Ed)
James Fenimore Cooper 1
R764 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R101 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A historical adventure reminiscent of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley romances, Cooper’s novel centers on Harvey Birch, a common man wrongly suspected of being a spy for the British.

The Pit - A Story of Chicago (Paperback): Frank Norris The Pit - A Story of Chicago (Paperback)
Frank Norris
R751 R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Save R102 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This classic literary critique of turn-of-the-century capitalism in the United States reveals Norris's powerful story of an obsessed trader intent on cornering the wheat market and the consequences of his unchecked greed.

Work - A Story of Experience (Paperback, New ed): Louisa Alcott Work - A Story of Experience (Paperback, New ed)
Louisa Alcott
R592 R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Save R76 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A story about a nineteenth-century woman’s search for a meaningful life through work outside the family sphere, Work is at once Alcott’s exploration of her personal challenges and a social critique of America.

The Romance of the Harem (Paperback): Anna Leonowens The Romance of the Harem (Paperback)
Anna Leonowens; Edited by Susan Morgan
R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From setting foot in Asia in 1849 (or was it 1845?) as Anna Crawford (or was it Anna Edwards?) to waltzing with Yul Brynner in glorious technicolor, Anna Leonowens and her romanticized experiences as the only Westerner behind the walls of Nang Harm (the walled harem of the king of Siam) have had a long, colourful, and often controversial existence.

The Marble Faun - Or, the Romance of Monte Beni (Paperback, Reissue): Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marble Faun - Or, the Romance of Monte Beni (Paperback, Reissue)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
R764 R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Save R100 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hawthorne's novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on American morality. Although it is set in Rome, the fictive world of The Marble Faun depends not on Italy's social or historical significance, but rather on its aesthetic importance as a definer of 'civilization'. As in The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne is concerned here with the nature of transgression and guilt. A murder, motivated by love, affects not only Donatello, the murderer, but his beloved Miriam and their friends Hilda and Kenyon. As he explores the reactions of each to the crime, Hawthorne dramatizes both the freedoms a new cultural model inspires and the self-censoring conformities it requires. His examination of the influence of European culture on American travellers lay the groundwork for such later works of American fiction as Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad and Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady.

Edgar Huntly Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker - Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (Paperback): Charles Brockden Brown Edgar Huntly Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker - Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (Paperback)
Charles Brockden Brown 1
R559 R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Save R73 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly (1787) mirrors the social and political temperaments of the postrevolutionary United States.

The Damnation of Theron Ware - Or Illumination (Paperback, New Ed): Harold Frederic The Damnation of Theron Ware - Or Illumination (Paperback, New Ed)
Harold Frederic 1
R634 R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Save R84 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A candid inquiry into the intertwining of religious and sexual fervor, and a telling portrait of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this novel foreshadows the rise of naturalism in American literature.

Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward (Paperback, Open Market Ed): Horatio Alger Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward (Paperback, Open Market Ed)
Horatio Alger 1
R556 R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Save R74 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Alger’s characteristic theme of youths achieving the American dream through hard work, resistance to temptation, and goodwill is presented in these two tales that reflect nineteenth-century life.

A Modern Instance (Paperback, Open Market Ed): William Dean Howells A Modern Instance (Paperback, Open Market Ed)
William Dean Howells 1
R772 R672 Discovery Miles 6 720 Save R100 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The story of a philandering, dishonest Boston journalist and the woman who divorces him, this is the first serious treatment of divorce in American writing and a powerful example of realism in literature.

The portable Stephen Crane - The red badge of courage / Maggie, a girl of the streets / George's mother (Paperback, Open... The portable Stephen Crane - The red badge of courage / Maggie, a girl of the streets / George's mother (Paperback, Open market ed)
Stephen Crane; Edited by Joseph Katz 1
R762 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R101 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Portable Stephen Crane allows us to appreciate the full scope and power of this writer's vision. It contains three complete novels—Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, George's Mother, and Crane's masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage; nineteen short stories and sketches, including "The Blue Hotel" and "The Open Boat", a barely fictionalized account of his own escape from shipwreck while covering the Cuban revolt against Spain; the previously unpublished essay "Above All Things"; letters and poems, plus a critical essay and notes by the noted Crane scholar Joseph Katz.

Emma (Spanish, Paperback): Jane Austen Emma (Spanish, Paperback)
Jane Austen
R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Emma es una novela en la que peculiarmente el dialogo es accion y la accion es dialogo, la verdad es mentira y la mentira verdad, donde reir y llorar es lo mismo. La historia de una joven inglesa de la clase media alta cuyas magnificas dotes intelectuales la precipitan a amanar las relaciones amorosas de los demas pensando que esta construyendo una pequena sociedad perfecta hasta que descubre con una desdicha transitoria que lo que ha construido es su perfecta pequenez.

Moll Flanders/ the Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (Spanish, Paperback): Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders/ the Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (Spanish, Paperback)
Daniel Defoe
R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Las aventuras de una joven abandonada por su madre al nacer, sus correrias como ladrona y estafadora, su estancia en la carcel, su final como prospera heredera de una plantacion dejada por su madre en una atmosfera de penitencia y prosperidad, hacen de Moll Flanders el personaje picaresco femenino mas popular de la literatura universal.

Hope Leslie - Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Paperback): Catharine Maria Sedgwick Hope Leslie - Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Paperback)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick 1
R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chronicles the role of women in building the republic but also refocuses the emergent national literature on the lives, domestic mores, and values of American women.

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Paperback, New ed): Charles Dudley Warner The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Paperback, New ed)
Charles Dudley Warner
R579 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R71 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America-an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels.

The Emigrants (Paperback): Gilbert Imlay The Emigrants (Paperback)
Gilbert Imlay; Edited by Amanda Gilroy, W.M. Verhoeven 1
R583 R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Save R77 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Imlay’s delightful epistolary adventure of 1793, set on the American frontier, was one of the first American novels. The trials of an emigrant family in the Ohio River Valley of Kentucky contrast the decadence of Europe with the utopian promise of the American West. Its sensational love plots also dramatize the novel’s surprising feminist allegiances.

The Portable American Realism Reader (Paperback, New): Various The Portable American Realism Reader (Paperback, New)
Various; Edited by James Nagel, Tom Quirk
R782 R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Save R100 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the pivotal period of America?s international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world literature. Seeking to strip narrative from pious sentimentalities, and, according to William Dean Howells, to ?Apaint? life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation,? Realism is best represented by this volume?s masterly pieces by Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, and Willa Cather among others. The joining of Realist methods with the theories of Marx, Darwin, and Spencer to reveal the larger forces (biological, evolutionary, historical) which move humankind, are exemplified here in the fiction of such writers as Jack London, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser.

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