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A Room with a View: Penguin Classics by E M Forster
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Classics Ser.
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentin ...Show more
A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia by Laurie Lee
26.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashes slums, the cult of t ...Show more
A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids committment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.
A Tale of Two Cities (PB Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; Hablot Knight Browne
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...Show more
A View from the Bridge and All My Sons by Arthur Miller
24.99 NZD
26.00 (3% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"A View From the Bridge" features Eddie, an illiterate longshoreman. His progress towards self discovery and fall is detailed in this drama. The second play, "All My Sons", is a merciless exposure of wartime profiteering and the capitalist ethic.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
9.95 NZD
12.99 (23% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney. Mark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed th ...Show more
Aesop's Fables (Chartwell Classic) by Aesop
22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
This beautiful and extensive collection of classic fables contains favourites like The Tortoise and the Hare, and The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
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
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Classics Ser.
When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. But Agnes' enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfiel ...Show more
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally i ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics) by Lewis Carroll
52.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most celebrated children's books of all time. In this edition Lewis Carroll's original story of little Alice's tumble down a rabbit hole is brought to life by stunning illustrations from John Tenniel. The book also features an elegant bonded-leather binding ...Show more