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
The Little Prince [Collector's Slipcase Edition] by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
44.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Few books have been as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. A beautiful slip-cased gift edition of this touching and wise classic children's book, with the original translation by Katherine Woods and full-colour illustrations. A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one ...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
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
21.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
This elegant hardback edition with gilded page edges presents Lewis Carroll's best loved work. First published in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland remains perennially popular with both adults and children alike. It follows the tale of curious Alice and her fall through the rabbit hole into a fanta ...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