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Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ...And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes"'. The marriage of Gertrude and Walt ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: The\Penguin English Library
"I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine...I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you, my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save m ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
32.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. The novels included in this collection from the elegant Knickerbocker Classics series--Sense and ...Show more
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
17.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others' Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity ...Show more
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the ...Show more
The Great Gatsby (Penguin English Library) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: The Penguin English Library
A genuine great of twentieth-century writing, this release has been refreshed by Fitzgerald researcher James L.W. West III to incorporate the writer's last modifications and highlights a note on the organization and content, an individual foreword by Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan-and anoth ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle. "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rati ...Show more
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classic Books | Series: The\Penguin English Library
From the founding father of science fiction H.G. Wells, a masterpiece about a man trapped in the terror of his own creation. The Invisible Man inspired The Map of Chaos by New York Times bestselling author Felix J. Palma. As a gift to readers, this ebook edition includes an excerpt from The Map of Cha ...Show more
The Machine Stops and Other Stories by E. M. Forster
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: The\Penguin English Library
A new selection of E. M. Forster's exquisite short stories, now in the beautifully designed Penguin English Library Series 'We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relatio ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe"'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
17.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
My guest was lying sprawled on his back, there was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor . . . '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 ...Show more