Prelude & Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Radical, witty and inventive, Katherine Mansfield is one of the twentieth century's most accomplished short-story writers and this selection of stories showcases her dazzling skill. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled ed ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m ...Show more
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic
Since it was first published in 1954, William Golding's classic debut novel has remained a stark allegory of civilization, survival, and human nature. As dystopian stories like Hunger Games and Battle Royale surge in popularity, this haunting tale of a group of young boys stranded on a desert island sti ...Show more
The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas Fils
35.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics
The landmark novel that inspired Verdi's opera "La Traviata," in a sparkling new translation "One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi's opera "La Traviata," the Oscar-winning musical "Moulin Rouge!," and numerous ballets, stage plays (starri ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague ...Show more
The Castle (PB) by Franz Kafka
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ever been before' A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats - this is the setting for Kafka's story about a ma ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas
23.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Ch teau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
Peter Pan (Chartwell Classics) by J.M. Barrie
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
What is Pride and Prejudice about : Pride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the titular sins of pride and prejudice in order to fall in love and marry. ...Show more
Shot with Crimson by Nicola Upson
36.99 NZD
Category: Classic
A murderer stalks the set of Hitchcock's film of Rebecca, bent on revenge, in this smart, cosy mystery. September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca.Then a shocking act of violence reawakens the sh ...Show more
The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Faber Editions Ser.
For fans of The Passenger, this thrilling tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a lost noir gem, introduced by Anthony Quinn.'A wonderfully compelling noir thriller and audacious and challenging act of imagination.' William Boyd'This extraordinar ...Show more
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
"I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead..." writes the heroine of Marlen Haushofer'sThe Wall, a quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human being. Surmising her solitude is the result of a too ...Show more
Aesop's Fables Illustrated (Leatherbound Classics) by Aesop
59.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...Show more