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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" is edited with an introduction by John Seelye in "Penguin Classics". When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawki ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by P ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
19.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
A story of revolutionaries set in Swizerland and Russia. Conrad's intention was to render not so much the political but the psychological state of Russia in 1911.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
14.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S. | Reading Level: very good
A story of English society during the Napoleonic wars. Through a free-wheeling melee of brilliant improvisations sail Becky Sharp, a resourceful, engaging and amoral character, and Amelia Sedley, her less lustrous but more ambiguous foil.
Vanity Fair (Clothbound Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
24.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
We the Living by Ayn Rand
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state. Of this book, Ayn Rand said, "it is as near to an autobiogr ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
14.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
Set in a provincial town in the early-19th-century, this is a subtle representation of historical change explored in human terms. The heroine passes from childhood to maturity in a process that, though often painful for her, is sharply and humorously observed.
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
26.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, i ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
14.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
"Wuthering Heights" tells the tragic love story of Catherine Earnshaw and the tortured Heathcliff, characters that have moved generations of readers.