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How Much Land Does a Man Need? – Leo Tolstoy
₦8,000.00Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin’s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries.
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In Defence of the Republic – Marcus Tullius Cicero
₦18,000.00Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: ‘an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country’.
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Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
₦14,000.00Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents – sieges, ambushes and combats – and equally memorable characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Isaac of York, and his beautiful, spirited daughter Rebecca; Wamba and …
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Jacob’s Room & Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
₦14,000.00Virginia Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day (1919), portrays the gradual changes in a society, the patterns and conventions of which are slowly disintegrating; where the representatives of the younger generation struggle to forge their own way, for ‘… life has to be faced: to be rejected; then accepted on new terms with rapture’. Woolf begins to …
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Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
₦14,000.00All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic and attractive Mr Rochester. However, there is great kindness and warmth in this epic love story, which is set against the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire moors.
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover – David Herbert Lawrence
₦13,000.00With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the novel with which D.H. The story of how the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds when her husband returns from the war paralysed from the waist down, and of the tender love which then develops between her and her husband’s gamekeeper, …
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Man-Size in Marble and Other Grim Tales – E. Nesbit
₦15,000.00Selected and introduced by Stephen Carver
The draped effigy just behind him worried him again. He had been trying, at the back of his mind, behind the other thoughts, to strangle the thought of it.
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Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
₦16,000.00The “Meditations” of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are a readable exposition of the system of metaphysics known as stoicism. The Meditations were composed in periods of inaction during the wars which Marcus hated but was compelled to fight.
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Middlemarch – George Eliot
₦15,000.00Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters wh…
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Moby Dick – Herman Melville
₦15,000.00Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel’s narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader.
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Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
₦14,000.00With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate red…
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts – Amos Tutuola
Original price was: ₦16,500.00.₦8,500.00Current price is: ₦8,500.00.My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola’s second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel – GEORGE. ORWELL
₦13,000.00The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. In this novel, continuously popular since its first publication, readers can explore the dark and extraordinary world he brought so fully to life.
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Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
₦14,000.00Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes – grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity.
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Rabbit at Rest – John Updike
₦21,000.00It’s 1989, and Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail.
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Resurrection – Leo Tolstoy
₦14,000.00This powerful novel, Tolstoy’s third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called to jury service, is astonished to see in the dock, charged with murder, a young woman whom he once sedu…
