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 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
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
Wuthering Heights: Artisan Edition by Emily Bronte
34.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Harper Muse: Artisan Edition Ser.
One of English literature's classic masterpieces--a gripping novel of love, propriety, and tragedy. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is t ...Show more
Little Women: Artisan Edition by Louisa May Alcott
34.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Harper Muse: Artisan Edition Ser.
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug."It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress."I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing atall," added little Amy, with an injured sniff."We ...Show more
Murder Is Easy by Agatha Christie
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic
Coming this Christmas on BBC, a new two part thriller: Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, Murder is Easy. Starring David Jonssons Fitzwilliam, alongside Morfydd Clark as Bridget; Penelope Wilton as Miss Pinkerton, Tom Riley as Lord Whitfield, Douglas Henshall as Major Horton, Mathew Baynton as ...Show more
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally i ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collins Classics) by Oscar Wilde
9.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar WildeOscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's mor ...Show more
Dubliners (Riverrun Editions) by James Joyce; Patrick McGuinness (Contribution by)
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'Like an artist working an empty sky into a busy cityscape, or an empty chair into a crowded family portrait, Joyce creates spaces where the reader is left to themselves' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface to Dubliners.Set in the late 19th and early 20th-century, Dubliners is made up of fifteen storie ...Show more