Collins Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
34.99 NZD
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Collins CLassics
The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains the recognized canon of the bard's plays, and his sonnets and poems. The texts were edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, making it one of the most authoritative editions, recognized the world over for its clarity and scholarship. Described in the Guard ...Show more
War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy
29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
A new version -- the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished -- of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon -- it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books. 'War and Peace' is a masterpiece -- a pa ...Show more
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
24.99 NZD
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Flamingo Ser.
An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover in th ...Show more
The Big Sleep: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamb ...Show more
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
24.00 NZD
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An "Arabian Nights" in reverse, enclosing a moral about international misconceptions and delusions. This is the story of a student who returns to his village after his obsession with the West had led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East.
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Henri Alain-Fournier
27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girl hidden within it, he has been changed forever. In ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success ...Show more