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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
19.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses ...Show more
A Man's Head by Georges Simenon
19.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Set in the in the atmospheric and squalid streets of Paris, Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. In another one of Maigret's unconventional and audacious plans, he arranges the escape of the condemned man in an attempt to prove his theory. The presumed ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
19.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
This is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of cha ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
19.95 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in con ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
19.99 NZD
21.00 (4% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meets the icy beaut ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, Mr Thomas Gradgrind bans fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. Then, their fortunes cross with a circus girl Sissy Jupe a ...Show more
Jane Eyre - Penguin Red Classics by Charlotte Bronte (Author) , Michael Mason (Introduction by)
15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Charlotte Bronte's first published novel, "Jane Eyre" was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847. Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. ...Show more
Lois the Witch: and Other Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell
19.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Fear of Satan becomes murder in the name of God. Newly orphaned, the God-fearing and heart-broken Lois is sent across the Atlantic to live with her uncle's family in Salem, but on her arrival she finds herself the object of cruel hostility, potent jealousy and mad desire. When the local Pastor's daughte ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? . . . Or is he all of these?
Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16.99 NZD
19.95 (14% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A land before time - a journey beyond belief...Unlucky in love, but desperate to prove himself in an adventure, journalist Ed Malone is sent to test the infamous and hot-tempered Professor Challenger on his bizarre South American expedition findings - not least his sketches of a strange plateau and the ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
19.99 NZD
21.00 (4% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them ...Show more