The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
16.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Tom Canty and Edward Tudor could have been identical twins. Their birthdays match, their faces match, but there the likeness stops. For Edward is a prince, heir to King Henry VIII, whilst Tom is a miserable pauper. But when fate intervenes, Edward is thrown out of the palace in rags, leaving ignorant To ...Show more
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Classics Ser.
A century has passed since the Norman Conquest, and England is still a colony of foreign warlords. Prince John is plotting to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lion-Hearted, and Robin Hood and his merry band are making fools out of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Wilfred, knight of Ivanhoe, th ...Show more
She (Penguin Black Classics) by H. Rider Haggard
25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Classics Ser.
"She" is Ayesha, the mysterious white queen of a Central Africa tribe. She is also the goal of a quest bequeathed to three English gentlemen who travel through shipwreck, fever, and cannibals to find her hidden realm.
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
26.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Classics Ser.
Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting incognito as her servants. Turning the male-dominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions of four ver ...Show more
Adam Bede by George Eliot
21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond th ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" is edited with an introduction by John Seelye in "Penguin Classics". When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawki ...Show more
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
12.95 NZD
21.00 (38% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortune ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
9.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics S. | Reading Level: very good
Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre none the less emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their ...Show more
Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot
25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But, after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunist ...Show more
Hunting Of The Snark,the by Lewis Carroll
28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Reproduces the original illustrations by Henry Holiday of the author's epic which appeared in 1876. This book also contains F C S Schiller's "Commentary on the Snark" and J A Lyndon's "Fit the Seven-and-a-Halfth".
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
9.95 NZD
17.99 (44% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more