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18 August 2009
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In the traditional sense, a Classic Book is one written in ancient Greek or latin (see classics). The word Classic may, however, also be applied to literature and other art that is widely considered a model of its form.

In this sense, classics comprise what some call a canon of world literature. A matter of little dispute is what belongs in the canon of Western literature and art.

Most classics are many many years old and are very good books, but the word is sometimes pressed into use to describe newer works. Classics also share very good reviews from magazines,and critics. Many classic books are, because of their age, now out of copyright and in the public domain, and of these a large number are freely available on-line from sources such as Project Gutenberg, many university websites or commercial sites such as Literature Junction and The Literature Network.

The phrase 'classic book' or 'classic literature' has taken on new meaning - many view any pre-1900 book still in print as a classic, or titles that is hundred years or older and still in print, and many books are classed as modern classics because of their contemporary significance or perceived future significance...

 

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Author: James Joyce
Condition: 4/10
Published Date: 1924

This edition - 1995

Joyce's classic depiction of Stephen Dedalus's boyhood and coming-of age in Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century - his child hood, sexual awakening, intellectual development and revolt against Catholicism - remains one of the key works of modern literature.

 
 
R40.00

Author: D.H Lawrence
Condition:  6/10
Published Date: 1968

His surging story of a man's struggle for self-expression through art and human relationships.

Aaron is a respected member of a mining community, yet his success stifles him.Pinning his faith on his flute-playing, he breaks with his wife, moves south... and meets Rawdon Lilly. The extraordinary relationship between these two men- twin poles of Lawrence's own consciousness- is the central span of this important novel.

 
 
R30.00

Author: William Shakespeare
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 1968

The new penguin Shakespeare offers a complete edition of the plays and poems. Each volume has been newly prepared from the original texts and includes an introduction, a list of further reading, a full and helpful commentary, and a short account of the textual problems of the play.

 
 
R20.00
At the back of the North Wind
ISBN-1-85326-149-1

Author: George Macdonald
Condition: 6/10
Published Date: This eddition - 1994

At the Back of the North Wind is a magical story that has delighted children and adults for generations. Wordsworth Children's Classic. The paper in this book was produced from pure wood pulp, without the use of chlorine or any other substanceharmful to the enviroment.  The energy used in its production consists almost entirely oh hydroelectricity and heat generated from waste materials, thereby conserving fossil fuels and contibuting little to the greenhouse effect (global warming).

 
 
R25.00

Author: John Howard Griffin
Condition: 4/10
Published Date: 1962

The story of a white man who in his pursuit to be left alone decides to change the colour of his skin and become darker, this has some unfortunate problems for him as he discovers what being black is truely like, and it was not what he expected.

 
 
R15.00
Brave New World
ISBN 140010521

Author: Aldous Huxley
Condition: 3/10
Published Date: 1932

 A classic tale of fantasy of the future.

 

 
 
R10.00
English Passangers
ISBN 0-140-28521-0

Author: Matthew Kneale 
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 2000
Pages: 462

It is 1857 and the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson had set out for Tasmania, hoping to find the true site if the Garden Of Eden.  But the journey is turning out to be less than straight forward - dissent is growing between him and sinister reacial - theorist Dr Potter, and unknown to both the ship they had hurrriedly chartered is in fact a Manx summgling vessel, fleeing from British Customs.

 

 

 
 
R45.00
Homage to Catalonia
ISBN 14-001699-6

Author: George Orwell
Condition: 6/10
Published Date: 1974

Orwell manages to view the cruelty, inefficiency, and political manoeuvering with sufficient detachment and humanity.

 
 
R35.00
Invisible Man
ISBN0-14-002335-6

Author: Ralph Ellison 
Condition: Second Hand
Published Date: 1952

 
 
R20.00
Moll Flanders
ISBN 1-85326-073-8

Author: Daniel Defoe
Condition: 8/10
Published Date: 1993

Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine.

 
 
R50.00
Moonfleet
ISBN 0-14-062144-X

A classic tale of mystery and high adventure in a Dorset smuggling village.

 
 
R35.00
Mrs Dalloway
ISBN - N/A

Author: Virginia Woolf 
Condition: 4/10
This books Published Date: 1987
Pages: 215

Past, present and future are brought together one day in June 1923. Clarissa Dalloway prepares for her party, remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is on the brink of madness. His day interweaves with Clarissa's.

 
 
R10.00
Poor Things
ISBN - 0-14-017554-7

Author: Alasdair Gray 
Condition: 7/10
This books Published Date: 1992
Pages: 316

The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean.

What strange secret made beautiful, tempestuous Bella Baxter,  irresistible to the poor medical student Archie McCandless? Was it her queen origin in the home of monstrous Godwin Baxter, the genious whose voice could perforate eardrums? This story of love and scientific daring storms through Victorian operating theatres, continental Casinos and a Parisian brothel to its happy end in a decent, old- fashioned Scottish marriage. 

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R35.00
Praise of Folly
ISBN 0-14044-240-5

Author: Erasmus
Condition: 6/10
Published Date: 1971

Praise of Folly ranges from light-hearted jibes to vehement denunciation of the theologians and churchmen.

 
 
R20.00
Revolutionary Road
isbn-978-09099-51878-5

Author: Richard Yates 
Condition: 9/10
Published Date:  1962
Pages: 337

Hailed as a master piece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road, is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be extraordinary.  With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April's decesion to change their lives for the better leads to bretrayal and tragedy.

Now A Major Motion Pitcure Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet

 

 
 
R60.00

Author: Mark Twain
Condition: 5/10
Published Date: 1966

The book remains work that can be enjoyed at many levels; as an incomparable adventure story, as a classic of  American humour, and as a metaphor of the American Predicament.

 
 
R35.00

Author: Laurence Sterne 
Condition: 6/10
This books Published Date: 1967
Pages: 657
The comic masterpiece TRISTRAM SHANDY by Sterne is generally regarded as the progenitor of the 20th century novel. Set in the Shandy's small parlour and garden, the book, narrated by Tristram, consists of a plot frequently and flagrantly interrupted by digressions. tristram insists on beginning the book at the moment of his own conception, but provides no consistent thread or conclusion to his tale.

 
 
R20.00
The Name of the Rose
ISBN - 0-099-46603-1

Author: Umberto Eco 
Condition: 9/10
This books Published Date: 2004
Pages: 502

Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements.

 

 
 
R30.00

Author: Roald Dahl
Condition: 4/10
Published Date: 1977

Turtles, fingersmiths, the Mildenhall treasure, even a man who can see with his eyes closed.

 
 
R25.00
Voltaire Candide
ISBN 0-14044-004-6

Author: Voltaire
Condition: 4/10
Published Date: 1947

When he wrote Candide, Voltaire had gained a reputation throughout Europe as a tragic dramatist and an epic poet.

 

 

 
 
R20.00

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