The Oxford Shakespeare: Hamlet
R120,00
Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant texts were fused in the eighteenth century to create the most commonly used text of today. Drawing on both critical and theatrical history, he shows how this gusion makes Hamlet seem a much more 'problematic' play than it was when it originally appeared in the First Folio of 1623. The Oxford Shakespeare edition presents a radically new text, based on that First Folio, which printed Shakespeare's own revision of an earlier version. The result is a 'theatrical' and highly practical edition for students and actors alike.
Product code: 9780192834164
For Esme - with Love and Squalor : and Other Stories - J D Salinger
R175,00
A collection of nine exceptional stories from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the Rye An American soldier has a strange encounter with an orphaned English teenager the night before he leaves for war. A four-year-old boy runs away in a dinghy; a missionary's child is kidnapped by Chinese bandits. A honeymoon in Florida goes awry with tragic consequences. Including the first stories to feature Salinger's beloved Glass family characters, this brilliantly varied collection offers a vivid introduction to the work of one of the most admired and widely read American novelists of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane and frequently affecting, For Esme - with Love and Squalor sits alongside Salinger's very best work - a gem that will be passed down for many generations to come.
Product code: 9780241950456
The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
R180,00
"The Catcher in the Rye" is J . D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood behind, "The Catcher in the Rye" explores the world with disarming frankness and a warm, affecting charisma which has made this novel a universally loved classic of twentieth-century literature. J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 and died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City, and wrote short stories from an early age, but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in The New Yorker of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish". "The Catcher in the Rye" was his first and only novel, published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated, taught and reprinted texts, and has sold some 65 million copies. His other works include the novellas "Franny and Zooey", "For Esme with Love and Squalor", and "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, published with Seymour - An Introduction".
Product code: 9780241950432
The Road to Mecca - Athol Fugard
R60,00
This book features a South African pastor and a young teacher from Cape Town battle over the fate of an eccentric elderly widow. The play won the 1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play.
Product code: 9780571136919
Jock of the Bushveld - Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
R350,00
Jock of the Bushveld by Percy Fitzpatrick is a story set in the rough bushveld of South Africa's gold mining era. Jock is the faithful dog and companion of a transport rider. Through their adventures we catch a glimpse of those heady gold rush days. Jock, the runt of the litter turns out to be a faithful companion to the end.
Product code: 0582161231
Heart to Heart Stories for Sisters - Joe L Wheeler
R150,00
Sisters who wish it can choose to journey toward a friendship and closeness they never thought possible.
Product code: 9780842353786
Heart to Heart: Stories of Friendship - Joe L Wheeler
R100,00
Friends come in all shapes and sizes, but one thing remains the same - they touch our hearts and we are never the same again.
Product code: 9780842305860
Heart to Heart Stories of Love - Joe L Wheeler
R150,00
Various novelists, some contemporary, contribute to this collection of love stories, including the story of a teenager's first love and a married couple of 27 years who fall in love all over again.
Product code: 9780842318334
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
R100,00
It's about imagination - not just the kind you need for childhood games. Because you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Product code: 9780878919468
The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry - Gabrielle Levin
R195,00
AJ Fikry owns a failing bookshop. His wife has just died, in tragic circumstances. His rare and valuable first edition has been stolen. His life is a wreck. Amelia is a book rep, with a big heart, and a lonely life. Maya is the baby who ends up on AJ's bookshop floor with a note. What happens in the bookshop that changes the lives of these seemingly normal but extraordinary characters? This is the story of how unexpected love can rescue you and bring you back to real life, in a world that you won't want to leave, with characters that you will come to love.
Product code: 9781408704615
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
R195,00
"One of the greatest productions of the human mind". (Leo Tolstoy). When a Kentucky farmer faces financial ruin, he reluctantly sells his slaves, and Uncle Tom finds himself the property of a cruel plantation owner, fighting for his freedom and ultimately, for his right to live. With a rich narrative and wonderfully realised characters, this is a panoramic, incredibly accomplished work. Originally published to much acclaim in 1852, it quickly established Harriet Beecher Stowe as one of America's most influential female novelists and was crucial in helping to secure the abolition of slavery. .
Product code: 9780099595830
Animal Farm - George Orwell
R150,00
'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. 'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic.
Product code: 9780141393056
A Passage to India - E M Forster
R165,00
What did happen to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalizing question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Forster's last and greatest novel. After a mysterious incident during their visit to the caves, the charming Dr Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman new to India. As he is brought to trial, the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relations collapses and the racism inherent in colonialism is exposed in all its ugliness - a theme which still has powerful, dangerous realities today.
Product code: 9780140274233
Hiroshima - John Hersey
2015 is the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, when, at 8.15am, an atomic bomb was dropped over the Japanese city, killing one hundred thousand men, women and children in its white fury. John Hersey's spare, devastating report on the attack was first published in the New Yorker in 1946. Written in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, it chronicles what happened through the eyes of six civilians who survived against the odds. It is a classic piece of journalism, and a defining moment of the nuclear age. 'One of the most powerful writers of modern times' Washington Post
Product code: 9780141982243
Great Dialogues of Plato - Plato , Translated by W H D Rouse
R160,00
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato. Emerson "The Republic" and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most important single body of writing in the history of philosophy. Beauty, love, immortality, knowledge, and justice are discussed in these dialogues, which magnificently express the glowing spirit of Platonic philosophy.
Product code: 9780451471703
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
R160,00
Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escape down the Mississippi river with runaway slave, Jim. They encounter trouble at every turn, from floods and gunfights to armed bandits and the long arm of the law. Through it all the friends stick together - but can Huck and Tom free Jim from slavery once and for all? With an inspirational introduction by Darren Shan, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the twenty wonderful classic stories being relaunched in Puffin Classics in March 2015.
Product code: 9780141321097
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
R300,00
This beautiful volume covers the literary career of one of England's finest prose stylists of any century. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was famously modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most revered writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, Pride and Prejudice, at the age of 22. She was the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey.
Product code: 9780141030173
A Room with a View - E M Forster
R150,00
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Room with a View" by E. M. Forster '"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it..." Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?
Product code: 9780141199825
Elke Oggend Van Die Wereld - Pascal Quignard; Translated by Johann Rossouw
R50,00
Elke oggend van die wêreld is die verhaal van De Sainte Colombe, meester van die viola da gamba en een van die beste komponiste van sy tyd. Na die dood van sy vrou draai hy sy rug op die roem van Parys en leef in eenvoud op sy plasie met sy twee dogters en die spook van sy vrou. In die afsondering van sy hut in die takke van ’n moerbeiboom wy hy sy lewe aan die poësie van die musiek.
Van Sainte Colombe is gesê dat sy boog al die verbuigings van die menslike stem kon naboots: van die sug van ’n jong vrou tot die snik van ’n bejaarde man, van die oorlogskreet van Hendrik van Navarre tot die sagte asemhaling van ’n kind wat ingedagte teken.
Dit is ook die verhaal van Marin Marais wat op ’n dag op die plaas aankom en pleit om as ’n leerling van Sainte Colombe aanvaar te word. Maar Marais se ambisie is om die glinsterende hofkunstenaar van Versailles te word.
Product code: 9781919825090
Stories Met Stertjies - Corlia Fourie
R95,00
Aspoestertjie skilder met houtskool, die gestewelde kat faal in sy plan om sy nooi ryk te maak en die slapende skone is effe ongeskik wanneer sy in haar slaap gesteur word. Boonop verander 'n padda nie altyd in 'n prins nie. In hierdie ietwat ongewone bundel word bekende sprokies van Grimm, Anderson en Perrault herskryf om 'n meer realistiese wereld van prinse en prinsesse te skep - met skreeusnaakse gevolge. Die herskeppings word tesame met die oorspronklike weergawes geplaas vir dubbele leesgenot. Vir lesers van alle ouderdomme.
Product code: 9781869191412
