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Caligula (Pocket Penguins 70 ) by Robert Graves
4.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Bo ...Show more
Claudius the God by Robert Graves; Barry Unsworth (Foreword by)
27.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Read in the style of a secret diary, this famous sequel toI, Claudiusgives a wry and human view of the Roman world, bringing to life some of the most scandalous and violent times in history.Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. He reco ...Show more
Goodbye To All That: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
12.99 NZD
15.99 (18% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses . . .'I ...Show more
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Robert Graves' superb autobiography tells the story of his life at public school and as a young officer during the First World War.
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
29.99 NZD
32.00 (6% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In "I, Claudius", he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from ...Show more
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
24.99 NZD
29.95 (16% off)
Category: Classic Books
Robert Graves's magnificent reconstruction of the grandeur, folly and vileness of Imperial Rome. Into the racy 'autobiography' of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges ...Show more
I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Emperor of the Romans, Born BC X, Murdered and Deified AD LIV by Robert Graves
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who became Emperor despite his first passionate refusal, was the uncle and butt of the notorious Caligula, the husband, dupe and vengeful destroyer of the wicked Messalina, and the stepfather and victim of the still more notorious Nero. Robert Graves' most famous book is ...Show more
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
13.99 NZD
15.99 (12% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth.Despised for his weakness and regarded by ...Show more
The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition by Robert Graves
40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
*The definitive and comprehensive edition of Robert Graves's classic retelling of the Greek myths*'Icarus disobeyed his father's instructions and began soaring towards the sun, rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings. Presently, when Daedalus looked over his shoulder, he could no longer see Ica ...Show more
The Greek Myths ; Vol. 1 by Robert Graves
32.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
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The Greek Myths ; Vol. 2 by Robert Graves
32.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
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