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The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Some journeys are best left unmade... Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents ...Show more
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
19.95 NZD
Category: New Releases | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
When Werther dances with the beautiful Lotte. It is a joy, however, that can only ever be short-lived. Engaged to another man, she tolerates his adoration and encourages his friendship but can never return his love. When he receives a letter telling him that she is married, his passion turns to destruct ...Show more
The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
16.99 NZD
27.99 (39% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international conseq ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
19.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants o ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
19.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag ? only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop'. Gentle art teacher Walter Hartright has fallen in love with his student, Laura. But she is marrying the wicked Sir Percival, who wants to destroy her reputation and steal her fortune. In the face of his powerful friends, only Laura's ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is w ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Considered by many to the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805, in the crowded and gossip-filled rooms of a St Petersburg party, and follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to ...Show more
Wuthering Heights - Penguin Red Classic by Emily Bronte
19.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere. As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-mean ...Show more