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Jane Eyre (Faber Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
$18.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Plain orphan Jane Eyre is not expected to amount to much. A pleasant existence as a governess is all she is supposed to hope for - but Jane desperately wants more. And an appointment at the gothic mansion of Thornfield offers her more than she could ever dream of - including a chance at real love. But w ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
$17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by: Ernest Hemingway
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King Jr.
$12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the heart of the civil rights movement show Martin Luth ...Show more
How to Be a Stoic by Epictetus; Seneca; Marcus Aurelius
$12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our control? These words of consolation and inspiration from the three great Stoic philosophers - Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius - offer ancient wisd ...Show more
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer by Aristotle
$12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and self-control, friendship and courage, Aristotle's lectu ...Show more
Orwell and England - Selected Essays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell; Michael Gardiner (Editor)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A collection of Orwell's compellingly perceptive essays on subjects from food to weather to unemployment, edited and introduced by Professor Michael Gardiner.George Orwell wrote extensively about English life and politics. The selection of essays and journalism in Orwell and England brings together some ...Show more
La Vita Nuova - Love Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Dante Alighieri; Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Translator)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Dante Alighieri's book of poetry and prose about love, and his first major work.Set in thirteenth century Florence, Dante describes his love for Beatrice through poems, sonnets and prose in La Vita Nuova (The New Life). This edition is the English translation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first published i ...Show more
Animal Farm (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell; Jason Cowley (Introduction by)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artis ...Show more
An Area of Darkness (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V.s. Naipaul
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make ...Show more
In a Free State (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V.s. Naipaul
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
V. S. Naipaul's Booker Prize winning novel about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land and the attendant heartache. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V.s. Naipaul
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.Part of the Macmillan Colle ...Show more
Candide, or the Optimist (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Voltaire
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire's hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for an ...Show more
