The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat
45.00 NZD
Category: Classic
It was in the month of November in this year that King Charles, accompanied by Sir John Berkely, Ashburnham, and Legg, made his escape from Hampton Court, and rode as fast as the horses could carry them toward that part of Hampshire which led to the New Forest - It is 1647. Charles I has been defeated i ...Show more
The Aerialists by Katie Munnik
35.00 NZD
Category: Classic
THE AERIALISTS is a rich historical novel based on the true story of Louisa Maud Evans, a fourteen-year old girl who died during the Great Exhibition in Cardiff, 1896, and whose demise - tumbling 8,000 feet into the Bristol Channel - captured the imagination of the city.Paris, 1891 Laura is living on th ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic
Ulysses by James Joyce is a modern fictional take on Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. This landmark of modern literature follows ordinary Dubliners in 1904. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a scintillating cast ...Show more
Standing Her Ground: Classic Short Stories by Trailblazing Women by Various
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
All the stories in Standing Her Ground have been chosen to celebrate the skill, the passion and achievements of women writers spanning one hundred years of innovation. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon mar ...Show more
The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton
59.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
No library's complete without the classics This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects the beloved tales of Arabian Nights, translated by Sir Richard Burton. They are ancient stories, but they still enchant our imaginations today. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Sinbad the Sailor. Aladdin. The ...Show more
The Telephone Box Library by Rachael Lucas
22.99 NZD
Category: Classic
Burnt out after ten years at the chalkface, Lucy's taken a sabbatical from her job as a history teacher to focus on some research. She moves to a tiny Cotswolds cottage that comes with a reduced rent in exchange for keeping a daily eye on Bunty, an extremely feisty ninety-something. She arrives at the c ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
35.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
The Royal Game: A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic
A new edition of this classic Zweig story - an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner during WW2 unearths a story of persecution and obsession.
The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
36.99 NZD
Category: Classic
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years l ...Show more
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic
E. M. Forster's beloved classic and sharp critique of imperialism, now for the first time in Penguin Classic When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs. Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 're ...Show more