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
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...' This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling o ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague ...Show more
Shot with Crimson by Nicola Upson
36.99 NZD
Category: Classic
A murderer stalks the set of Hitchcock's film of Rebecca, bent on revenge, in this smart, cosy mystery. September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca.Then a shocking act of violence reawakens the sh ...Show more
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
"I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead..." writes the heroine of Marlen Haushofer'sThe Wall, a quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human being. Surmising her solitude is the result of a too ...Show more
Aesop's Fables Illustrated (Leatherbound Classics) by Aesop
59.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...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
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage American Gothic Ser.
Nine 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 Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fi ...Show more
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage American Gothic Ser.
Nine 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 Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fath ...Show more
Love by Toni Morrison
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic
Nine 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 A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Jun ...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
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction When Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a tropical island, he is surprised to find he has company in the form of Dr Moreau. Driven out of Britain in disgrace, Dr Moreau has decided to explore his science in peace and iso ...Show more