Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
39.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very spec ...Show more
Maigret's Revolver (#40 Inspector Maigret) (Crime & Espionage Claasics) by Georges Simenon
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the runWhen Maigret's prized gun goes missing, he must travel to London on the trail of a troubled young man on the run. Maigret's Revolver is a wonderful picture of both London and Paris and one of Simenon's most ingenious and satisfying stories. ...Show more
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Crime & Espionage Classics) by John le Carré
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
George Smiley faces his greatest challenge yet, unmasking a Soviet double agent at the heart of the British establishmentGeorge Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy.The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lampl ...Show more
Yeats Collected Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by W. B. Yeats; Robert Mighall (Introduction by)
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy.
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fant me de l'Op ra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. A novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 184 ...Show more
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
21.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Franz Kafka's most famous novella, Metamorphosis is a masterful mix of horror and absurdity which tells the story of travelling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one day to find out he has turned into a giant insect. Kafka's novella has been adapted for film and television a number of times, most rece ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Hawthorne's greatest romance, The Scarlet Letter, is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that The Scarlet Letter is a serious historical novel. If Hawthorne's fiction rigorously and faithfully subjects Hester and ...Show more
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
For the 150th anniversary of Willa Cather's birth, and for the first time in Penguin Classics, her quietly beautiful novel of one man's life as he encounters the harsh landscape of the New Mexico desert and the people who inhabit it, with an introduction by National Book Award finalist Kali Fajardo-Anst ...Show more
Emma by Jane. Austen
39.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Emma es una novela cómica escrita por Jane Austen, en inglés, publicada por vez primera en 1815 por el editor John Murray, sobre los peligros de malinterpretar el romance. El personaje principal, Emma Woodhouse, se describe como "hermosa, lista y rica" pero también es bastante mimada. Antes de comenzar ...Show more
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: Retold by Naomi Lewis by Hans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis (retold)
34.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of the world's most celebrated fairy tales. A delightful selection of stories from Hans Christian Andersen, translated by the eminent writer and critic, Naomi ...Show more
Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Brothers Grimm
36.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales. A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of some of the world's most beloved stories. From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and f ...Show more