The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
9.95 NZD
17.99 (44% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon by Jane Austen
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's "Lady Susan", "The Watsons" and "Sanditon" is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in "Penguin Classics". These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different litera ...Show more
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
23.95 NZD
25.00 (4% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Classics S. | Reading Level: good
Originally published in 1902, a novel which takes passionate love as its central theme and focuses on a young woman with a terminal illness whose last gesture will serve either as a deed of selflessness, or as a final act of revenge. From the author of THE BOSTONIANS, THE ASPERN PAPERS and THE TURN OF T ...Show more
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
9.95 NZD
14.99 (33% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, "Moll Flanders" is edited with an introduction and notes by David Blewett in "Penguin Classics". Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll Flanders' drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society p ...Show more
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
14.99 NZD
21.00 (28% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics
Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and ...Show more
Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
32.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: American Library
Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for sp ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In "The Metamorphoses", Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the verses was the first major English version and brought Ovid to ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
12.99 NZD
13.95 (6% off)
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
Jonathan Harker's nightmarish experience at Castle Dracula is only the beginning of a chain of macabre events, of blood-curdling horrors unleashed from the depths of a dark and evil world which thrives on innocent victims. The vile Count is at large, intent on increasing his diabolical band of un-dead. ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
21.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, with nothing in the world except each other ? and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own, somewhere to settle and live in peace. Finding work on a ranch in California?s Salinas Valley, they hope to stay long eno ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
21.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books
In the din and stink that is Cannery Row, a colourful blend of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists - survive in a jumble of adventure and mischief.