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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories (Hardcover): Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories (Hardcover)
Lewis Carroll 1
R1,089 Discovery Miles 10 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carroll's novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, his masterpiece of nonsense verse "The Hunting of the Snark," and miscellaneous poems, short stories, puzzles, and acrostics.

Sounds Familiar - Or the Beast of Artek (Paperback): Zinovy Zinik Sounds Familiar - Or the Beast of Artek (Paperback)
Zinovy Zinik; Illustrated by Lukas Malina; Designed by Ivan Mecl
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Little Prince (Hardcover): Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Little Prince (Hardcover)
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy.

The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence.

Anna Karenina (Hardcover): Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina (Hardcover)
Leo Tolstoy 1
R946 Discovery Miles 9 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1878, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is the tragic story of aristocrat Anna Karenina and her ill-fated affair with the cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Although passionately in love, the couple finds their romance doomed by the sexual mores of their time and place, and the double standards that apply to men and women. The tale's panoramic sweep and Tolstoy's colorful depiction of Russia and the European continent are virtually unparalleled in world literature. This novel, in the estimation of William Faulkner, is 'the best ever written.' Anna Karenina is one of Barnes & Noble's leatherbound classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and an attractive ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offers hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.

Promethean Horrors - Classic Tales of Mad Science (Paperback, Special edition): Xavier Aldana Reyes Promethean Horrors - Classic Tales of Mad Science (Paperback, Special edition)
Xavier Aldana Reyes 1
R263 R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Save R53 (20%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Wayward Man (Paperback): St. John G. Ervine The Wayward Man (Paperback)
St. John G. Ervine
R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Chianti Flask (Paperback): Marie Belloc Lowndes The Chianti Flask (Paperback)
Marie Belloc Lowndes; Introduction by Martin Edwards
R347 R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Silmarillion (Hardcover, Special Edition): J. R. R. Tolkien The Silmarillion (Hardcover, Special Edition)
J. R. R. Tolkien
R4,179 R2,899 Discovery Miles 28 990 Save R1,280 (31%) In Stock

For the first time ever, a beautiful deluxe stamped clothbound hardcover edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings housed in a custom-built clothbound slipcase, and illustrated throughout in color by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, with the complete text printed in two colors and with many bonus features unique to this edition.

The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Fëanor, most gifted of the Elves, and within them was imprisoned the last Light of the Two Trees of Valinor. But the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels and set them within his iron crown, guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth.

The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Fëanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroism, against the great Enemy. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part.

The book also includes several shorter works: the Ainulindalë, a myth of the Creation, and the Valaquenta, in which the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabêth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Númenor at the end of the Second Age, and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings.

This deluxe slipcased edition contains the complete text, which is printed in two colors and features, for the very first time, more than 50 colour paintings, illustrations and designs drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien himself as he composed this epic work.

Unique to this edition are two poster-size, fold-out maps revealing all the detail of Beleriand as the tales grew, an illustrated booklet featuring ‘A Brief Account of The Silmarillion and its Making’ by Christopher Tolkien, and a printed art card reproducing ‘Taniquetil’.

It is additionally quarterbound with raised ribs on the spine, stamped in three foils on black cloth boards, and housed in a custom-built clothbound slipcase. The pages are edged in silver and include a ribbon marker.

Anne Of Green Gables - Heritage Collection (Hardcover): Lucy Montgomery Anne Of Green Gables - Heritage Collection (Hardcover)
Lucy Montgomery
R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for.

Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne’s influence in some way. We see her grow from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making her mistakes, and not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her own red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the true meaning of love.

Part Tom Sawyer, part Jane Eyre, by the end of Anne of Green Gables, Anne has become the heroine of her own story.

The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe (Paperback, Illustrated Edition): Douglas Adams The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe (Paperback, Illustrated Edition)
Douglas Adams; Illustrated by Chris Riddell
R385 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second part in Douglas Adams' smash hit sci-fi comedy and cult classic series. This stunning gift edition is illustrated by Costa Award winning Chris Riddell.

If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe?

Which is exactly what Arthur Dent and the crew of the Heart of Gold plan to do. There's just the small matter of escaping the Vogons, avoiding being taken to the most totally evil world in the Galaxy and teaching a space ship how to make a proper cup of tea.

And did anyone actually make a reservation?

Run Time (Paperback, Main): Catherine Ryan Howard Run Time (Paperback, Main)
Catherine Ryan Howard
R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS' CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR _________________________________ *** A Top Ten Kindle Bestseller *** 'Pure nerve-shredding suspense from the first page to the last' Erin Kelly 'Blair Witch meets Fleabag ... pure mastery' Janice Hallett 'Dazzling' Riley Sager _________________________________ Movie-making can be murder. The project Final Draft, a psychological horror, being filmed at a house deep in a forest, miles from anywhere in the wintry wilds of West Cork. The lead Former soap-star Adele Rafferty has stepped in to replace the original actress at the very last minute. She can't help but hope that this opportunity will be her big break - and she knows she was lucky to get it, after what happened the last time she was on a set. The problem Something isn't quite right about Final Draft. When the strange goings-on in the script start to happen on set too, Adele begins to fear that the real horror lies off the page... _________________________________ 'A roller-coaster ride and fun in every sense, I loved it!' Andrea Mara 'Will have you glued to your sunbed ... insists on being read in one sitting' Gloss

Little Men - Or; Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (Hardcover): Louisa May Alcott Little Men - Or; Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (Hardcover)
Louisa May Alcott
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Neighbours (Paperback): Caradoc Evans My Neighbours (Paperback)
Caradoc Evans
R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

‘Our God is a big man: a tall man much higher than the highest chapel in Wales and broader than the broadest chapel. For the promised day that He comes to deliver us a sermon we shall have made a hole in the roof and taken down a wall. Our God has a long, white beard, and he is not unlike the Father Christmas of picture-books. Often he lies on his stomach on Heaven’s floor, an eye at one of his myriads of peepholes, watching that we keep his laws. Our God wears a frock coat, a starched linen collar and black necktie, and a silk hat, and on the Sabbath he preaches to the congregation of Heaven.’

Set in west Wales and among the Welsh of London, and written in the Biblical cadence which had made its author famous, Caradoc Evans’s third collection castigates the ignorance, greed and hypocrisy of his people.

Checkmate to Murder - A Second World War Mystery (Paperback): E.C.R. Lorac Checkmate to Murder - A Second World War Mystery (Paperback)
E.C.R. Lorac
R338 R315 Discovery Miles 3 150 Save R23 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Lodore (Paperback): Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Lodore (Paperback)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Also published as The Beautiful Widow, Mary Shelley's penultimate novel explores the web of relationships between three women, bound together by the exacting Lord Lodore: his estranged wife Cornelia, a woman ruled by her mother and the norms of aristocratic society; his daughter Ethel, raised in the wilderness of Illinois and utterly dependent on her father; and finally, the independent and highly educated Fanny Derham, the daughter of Lodore's childhood friend. At first glance, Lodore appears to be a "silver fork" novel--a popular romance genre from the Regency era about life in fashionable society--yet Shelley's take imbues the story with subversive critiques of domesticity and masculinity. Long considered the most Jane Austen-like of Mary Shelley's novels, Lodore is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand this brilliant feminist writer.

Metamorphosis (Paperback): Franz Kafka Metamorphosis (Paperback)
Franz Kafka
R143 R133 Discovery Miles 1 330 Save R10 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Early Hours (Paperback, New edition): Marmaduke Pickthall The Early Hours (Paperback, New edition)
Marmaduke Pickthall
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Awkward Squads - and Selected Short Stories (Paperback): Shan Bullock The Awkward Squads - and Selected Short Stories (Paperback)
Shan Bullock
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Man in the Brown Suit (Paperback): Agatha Christie The Man in the Brown Suit (Paperback)
Agatha Christie
R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Murder on the Links (Paperback): Agatha Christie The Murder on the Links (Paperback)
Agatha Christie
R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Secret of Chimneys (Paperback): Agatha Christie The Secret of Chimneys (Paperback)
Agatha Christie
R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Great Gatsby - Heritage Collection (Hardcover): F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby - Heritage Collection (Hardcover)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
R533 R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Save R52 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’.

Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.

The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.

Becoming a Writer (Paperback): Dorothea Brande Becoming a Writer (Paperback)
Dorothea Brande
R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Welsh Mysteries - Stories of Cambrian Crime (Paperback): Martin Edwards Welsh Mysteries - Stories of Cambrian Crime (Paperback)
Martin Edwards
R319 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Sharp left by the school and down the lane to the gas works. The gasworks? I, a dentist, heading for the gasworks in a small Welsh market town? It was the furnace I wanted... From the dramatic scenery of Snowdonia and the Gower to the stunning coastlines and hushed valleys, the landscapes of Wales have inspired many writers of Golden Age mystery stories - from within and without its borders. Centred around a lost novella by Cledwyn Hughes, this new collection features the best stories from celebrated Welsh authors such as Mary Fitt and Ethel Lina White, as well as short mysteries inspired by or set in the cities and wilds of the country by both beloved Golden Age writers and authors from the 1960s and 70s who continued to push the boundaries of the genre.

The Carolinian (Paperback): Rafael Sabatini The Carolinian (Paperback)
Rafael Sabatini
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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