The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Originals
Masterfully linked short stories by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath. The Red Pony is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him a red pony, and later pro ...Show more
"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" and "His Last Bow" (Collector's Library) by Arthur Conan Doyle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
Ten years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Arthur Conan Doyle was to bow to popular pressure and the large fees offered by publishers to revive the detective's career. To the astonishment of Dr Watson and the delight of his readers Holmes returns to Baker Street, exp ...Show more
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'Do I desire unreasonably much in wanting what is called life - music, poetry, passion, war, and all the beating and pulsing that is going on in the great arteries of the world?' Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of ...Show more
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
$27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
This title comes with an introduction by Marina Warner and illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and published for the first time in 1798. It is the story of a nightmare voyage to the South Po ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
This is a dramatic, moving depiction of social defiance and social deference, of passion and human frailty. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tens ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter (Penguin English Library) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss' Fiercely romantic and hugely influential, The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Pr ...Show more
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
$13.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such terrorist is Verloc. He is the secret agent who is given the mission to str ...Show more
The Secret of Love by Sarah Emmanuelle Burg
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Illustrated with delightfully spare pencil drawings--punctuated by bursts of red color--this wordless picture book presents a simple, adorable love story that will tug at the heart strings of young and old alike. This edition features a red ribbon that closes the book.
The Serpent's Teeth by Ovid
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
In a world of gods and monsters, nothing is as it seems. When a deadly serpent's teeth are sown in the ground, warriors spring from the bloody soil. Only a great man can tame them and fulfill his destiny. Far away, Medusa, snakes writhing in her hair, meets her nemesis; the princess Andromeda is chai ...Show more
The Shakespeare Almanac by Gregory Doran
$65.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
"The Shakespeare Almanac" is a day by day calendar of Shakespeare's year. It follows the rural farming cycle of lambing to sheep-shearing to harvest home, as they are referred to in Shakespeare's plays and poetry. It lists all the high days and holidays, from Christmas to Easter, Candelmas to Hocktide. ...Show more
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
$45.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels-"Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row," and "The Pearl." From Steinbeck's tale of commitment, loneliness, and hope in "Of Mice and Men," t ...Show more
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library editionA dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling ...Show more