The Shooting Party by A.P. Chekhov
19.99 NZD
21.00 (4% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Anton Chekhov's only full-length novel, this "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Shooting Party" is translated and edited by Ronald Wilks, with an introduction by John Sutherland. "The Shooting Party" centres on Olga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken forester on a country estate, and her fateful re ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15.99 NZD
21.00 (23% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of ...Show more
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard
17.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The story of Peter Abelard and Heloise d'Argenteuil remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. This title follows the path of their romance from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret ...Show more
Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen
19.99 NZD
25.00 (20% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With this new translation and selection, the unique inventiveness of Andersen's genius is revealed. At a time when children's stories were formal, moral and didactic, Hans Christian Andersen revolutionized the genre, giving an anarchic twist to traditional folklore and creating a huge number of utterly ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
The Iliad (Penguin Classic) by Homer (Translated by Rieu)
22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An accessible Iliad for twenty-first-century readers A classic of Western literature for three millennia, Homer's Iliad captivates modern readers--as it did ancient listeners--with its tale of gods and warriors at the siege of Troy. Now Herbert Jordan's line-for-line translation brilliantly renders the ...Show more
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling
27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist mon ...Show more
The Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville
19.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books
A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville published versions of his notorious "Fable of the Bees" from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem "The Angry Hive, 1705". The version of the Fable of 1723 and 1732 are the f ...Show more
The Koran by N.J. Dawood
19.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Classics S. | Reading Level: very good
Universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible word of God as revealed to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago, the Koran still provides the rules of conduct fundamental to the Arab way of life.
The Koran With Parallel Arabic Text by N.J. Dawood
55.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
This edition uses N.J.Dawood's translation of "The Koran" rearranged into the traditional Koranic order with a parallel Arabic text.
Aristophanes - The Wasps; The Poet and the Woman; The Frogs by Aristophanes
24.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a ...Show more
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (PB) by N. J. Dawood
23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Classics Ser.
The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical "Young Woman and her Five Lovers" and t ...Show more