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Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
24.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth.Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party i ...Show more
Heart of Darkness (Collins Classics) by Joseph Conrad
9.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Heart of DarknessBy Joseph ConradHeart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the heart of Africa.[1] Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This ...Show more
Journey to Jo'Burg (Essential Modern Classic) by Beverley Naidoo
16.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, wh ...Show more
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret ...Show more
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
9.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville The voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab, who leads his crew on a hunt for the great whale Moby Dick, reveals a profound meditation on society, nature, and the human struggle for meaning, happiness, and salvation. Often considered the epitome of Ameri ...Show more
Passing by Nella Larsen
6.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Clare Kendry, elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she reunites with childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to confront the secret fears they have buried within themselves. A taut explo ...Show more
The Cat That Walked by Himself and Other Cat Stories by Collins
12.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him. Cats have long been considered creatures of mystery and magic. Worshipped as deities in some cultures, feared ...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 Kingdom by the Sea (Essential Modern Classics) by Robert Westall
16.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Guaradian award winning novel about courage, friendship and war. Reissued into the Essential Modern Classic list. When a bomb during an air raid destroys Harry's home and kills his family, he knows that he is all alone in the world and has only himself to rely on. Anxious that he will be sent to live w ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collins Classics) by Oscar Wilde
9.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar WildeOscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's mor ...Show more
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. That girl didn't want to die. She just wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that dec ...Show more
The Voyages of Dr Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
0.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. After rescuing an injured squirrel, Tommy Stubbins is directed to the offices of Doctor John Dolittle and is amazed to discover a house full of exotic creatures. Under the tutelage of Polynesia the parrot, Tommy be ...Show more