Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | 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
Pride and Prejudice: Artisan Edition by Jane. Austen
34.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Harper Muse: Artisan Edition Ser.
Edited by Joseph Pearce Contributors to this volume:Christopher BlumAnthony EsolenRichard HarpDouglas Lane Patey Jane Austen is arguably the finest female novelist who ever lived and Pride and Prejudice is arguably the finest, and is certainly the most popular, of her novels. An undoubted classic of ...Show more
Wuthering Heights: Artisan Edition by Emily Bronte
34.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Harper Muse: Artisan Edition Ser.
One of English literature's classic masterpieces--a gripping novel of love, propriety, and tragedy. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is t ...Show more
Aesop's Fables Illustrated by Aesop
59.99 NZD
Category: Classics | 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
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
25.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
"I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead..." writes the heroine of Marlen Haushofer'sThe Wall, a quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human being. Surmising her solitude is the result of a too ...Show more
The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger
27.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Editions Ser.
For fans of The Passenger, this thrilling tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a lost noir gem, introduced by Anthony Quinn.'A wonderfully compelling noir thriller and audacious and challenging act of imagination.' William Boyd'This extraordinar ...Show more
Shot with Crimson by Nicola Upson
36.99 NZD
Category: Classics
A murderer stalks the set of Hitchcock's film of Rebecca, bent on revenge, in this smart, cosy mystery. September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca.Then a shocking act of violence reawakens the sh ...Show more
Peter Pan (Chartwell Classics) by J.M. Barrie
27.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
What is Pride and Prejudice about : Pride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the titular sins of pride and prejudice in order to fall in love and marry. ...Show more
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
25.99 NZD
Category: Classics
James Bond is back with a bang in Penguin Classics, in the new Crime & Espionage series 'It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence ...Show more
Classic Stories of the Sea by Harriet Sanders (Editor)
24.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
For centuries, writers have been inspired by the sea, pitting man against nature in stories and novels. The allure of the sea is mighty, and here is a collection of classic adventure stories from writers such as Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad and C. S. Forester, whose protagonists must pit their wits again ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck; Barbara Heavilin (Introduction by, Notes by)
25.99 NZD
Category: Classics
A definitive edition of the iconic American author's most enduring novel, with an introduction and study notes. Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their ow ...Show more
Animal Farm by George. Orwell
25.99 NZD
Category: Classics
A special student edition of Orwell's timeless fable, with an introduction and study notes. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless ...Show more