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The Odyssey by Homer; translated by E. V. Rieu
$17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
The Odyssey is a classic poem written by Homer that consists of 12.110 verses. It is unique already in that it has reached our days in its original form. This poem is a genuine revelation of the poetic thought of ancient Hellas....After the Trojan War, most of the survived Greek leaders returned by sea ...Show more
Mythology (DK Eyewitness)
$9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Find out what the lotus flower represents in different mythologies around the world. Discover how gods and goddesses were believed to influence the weather. See incredible masks used to drive away demons. What will you Eyewitness next? Visually stunning and packed full of facts, DK Eyewitness books are ...Show more
Siddhartha (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Hermann Hesse; Hilda Rosner (Translator); John Peacock (Introduction by)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
What is the purpose of life? Is religion the answer? How, in a world beset with misery and conflict, can we help to find inner peace? Siddhartha helped inspire the legions of counter-cultural 'hippies' and other refuseniks who challenged the Western capitalist order in the 1960s and 1970s. Brought to yo ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character driven narratives and colorful illustration. Designed to be the perfect one minute bedtime story (or five minutes-if you're begged to read it over and over) parents can feel good about exposing their childr ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy; Anthony Briggs (Notes by, Translator, Introduction by); Orlando Figes (Afterword by)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes.At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly en ...Show more
Man Alone (VUP Classics) by John Mulgan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Man Alone is one of the foundation stones of New Zealand literature. Almost all copies of the first edition, published in England in 1939, were destroyed in the Blitz. When it was republished in New Zealand in 1949, after the author’s suicide in Cairo in 1945, the publisher Paul’s Book Arcade made a num ...Show more
Animal Farm (Super Readable Edition) by George Orwell
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Orwell's powerful, unnerving and timeless allegory of oppression and rebellion, brought to life for a new age of readers in a stunning dyslexia-friendly edition. When the lazy and drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm forgets to feed his livestock the down-trodden and over-worked animals unite to take back the ...Show more
Burmese Days (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell; David Eimer (Introduction by)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Literary titan George Orwell penned Animal Farm and 1984, as well as this classic. In Burmese Days, Orwell drew upon his own time in India to craft a biting look at the days of British Imperialism. When a whites-only European club decides to allow one native membership, Dr. Veraswami is first in line to ...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
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
Just William (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Richmal Crompton
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A tousle-headed, snub-nosed, hearty, lovable ball of mischief, William Brown has been harassing his unfortunate family and delighting his hundreds of thousands of admirers since 1922. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edge ...Show more
