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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move ...Show more
Northanger Abbey (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen. 'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'. During an eventful season at Bath, yo ...Show more
Portrait of a Lady (Penguin English Library) by Henry James
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James. 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her'. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Tou ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes...' ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ...reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!" Jane Austen's novel tells the story of Marianne Dashwood, who wears her heart on her sleeve, and whe ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Silas Marner" by George Eliot. "God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you've no right to her!" Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Sila ...Show more
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
The Adventure of Six Napoleons and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library edition Many readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the Twisted Lip was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story - but then that would be doing an injustice to The Adventure of the Yellow Face and The Problem of Thor Bridge. It is just as we ...Show more
The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool'. In "The Confidence-Man", Melville's unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who ...Show more
The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories by O. Henry
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, O. Henry's comic eye and unique, playful approach to the rough material of life's realities are unmatched. These stories, which range from the cattle-lands of Texas to the bars of New York, highlight the joys of avoiding habit and conven ...Show more
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ short stories | 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