Grimm Tales : For Young And Old by Philip Pullman
$48.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A phenomenal bestselling author meets the most magical stories ever told, now in a beautiful clothbound classics edition In this stunningly designed book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'cle ...Show more
Heart of Darkness (Penguin English Library) by Joseph Conrad
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak o ...Show more
Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox
$65.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its dreadful consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. It was composed more than 260 ...Show more
Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first time 'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America... A powerful anti-novel but, like deeply understood moments in life itself, rich with many kinds ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...' This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling o ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Painted Edition) by Charlotte Bronte
$55.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Harper Muse Classics: Painted Editions Ser.
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is now available in a fine exclusive collector’s edition featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and distinctive interior treatments, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Each collectible volume will be the perfect addition to any well- ...Show more
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story [Thorsons Classics edition] by RICHARD BACH
$22.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The complete edition of a timeless classic, includes the recently rediscovered Part Four and 'Last Words' by Richard Bach.Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. 'Most gulls don't bother to learn mor ...Show more
Junky by William S. Burroughs
$27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time s ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Orwell: the New Editions Ser.
A new edition of Orwell's end-of-tether third novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor First published in 1936, and drawing on Orwell's own experiences of working in a Hampstead bookshop, Keep the Aspidistra Flying tracks the career of Gordon Comstock ('nearly 30 and moth-eaten al ...Show more
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"Flora Thompson's great memoir of her Oxfordshire girlhood. The richness of the language, the lingering over detail and incident creates a haunting classic."--The New York Times The quintessential distillation of English country life at the turn of the twentieth century, this is the story of three clos ...Show more
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Vasily Grossman
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATION BY ROBERT CHANDLER, UPDATED AND REVISED. The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an age and a searing vision of Stalinist Russia, Life and Fate is also the story of a family, the Shaposhnikovs, whose lives in the army, the gulag, a physics institute, a power sta ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate: Popular Penguins by Nancy Mitford
$16.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars. Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, i ...Show more