Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally i ...Show more
Dubliners (Riverrun Editions) by James Joyce; Patrick McGuinness (Contribution by)
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'Like an artist working an empty sky into a busy cityscape, or an empty chair into a crowded family portrait, Joyce creates spaces where the reader is left to themselves' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface to Dubliners.Set in the late 19th and early 20th-century, Dubliners is made up of fifteen storie ...Show more
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic
Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics -- VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of es ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
39.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
This is a stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Obsessed by creating ...Show more
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales by Various
39.99 NZD
Category: Classic
A spine-tinglingly beautiful hardback collection of some of Japan's scariest yet still compelling classic ghost stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to ven ...Show more
The Common Reader: First Series (Collins Classics) by Virginia. Woolf
11.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out'In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the ...Show more
Ancient Light by John Banville
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back ...Show more
Moby Dick (Chartwell Classics) by Herman Melville
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
Complete and unabridged, Moby Dick is Herman Melville's classic tale of nature versus man. Journey to the heart of the sea with this larger-than-life classic. Regarded as the Great American Novel, Moby Dick is the ultimate tale of seeking vengeance. Narrated by the crew member Ishmael, this epic whaling ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility [Macmillan Collectors Library PB] by Jane Austen
22.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Continuing the wildly successful Puffin in Bloom line of classics--illustrated by Anna Bond, the artist behind the renowned lifestyle brand Rifle Paper Co. Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby, she ignores her sis ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice [Macmillan Collectors Library PB] by Jane Austen
22.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness ...Show more
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic
Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he i ...Show more
To the Lighthouse (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Virginia Woolf
34.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia LockwoodA Penguin Vitae EditionThe serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivia ...Show more