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Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
19.95 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Mary Barton is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow workers, but Mary wants to make a better life for them both. She rashly decides to reject her lover Jem, a struggling engineer, in the hope of marrying the rich mill-owner's son Henry Carson and securing a sa ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
19.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens' tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch- ...Show more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published illustrations by the author, and an introducti ...Show more
Quantum of Solace by Ian Fleming
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Beautiful girls. Crime lords. Assassins. Deadly secrets! It's all in a day's work for Bond. Whether he's making an unexpected discovery in the Bahamas, hunting down a Cuban hit-man in wild country, smashing an international drugs ring in Rome, on the trail of a murderous secret in the Caribbean, enjoyin ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
19.99 NZD
21.00 (4% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing, but unsuitable John Willoughby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is strugglin ...Show more
She by H.Rider Haggard
16.99 NZD
19.95 (14% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father's quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his compa ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in Penguin Classics. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship wi ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, hands ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
16.99 NZD
19.95 (14% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'.In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
19.95 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success, there always lurks the s ...Show more
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
16.99 NZD
19.95 (14% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Rudolph Rassendyll's life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania whilst travelling through the town of Zenda. He is shortly on the way to Streslau, the capital, where he finds himself engaged in plans to rescue the imprisoned king.
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
16.99 NZD
19.95 (14% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Childers' lone masterpiece, "The Riddle of the Sands", considered the first modern spy thriller, is recognisable as the brilliant forerunner of the realism of Graham Greene and John le Carre. Its unique flavour comes from its fine characterization, richly authentic background of inshore sailing and vivi ...Show more