The Snow Goose and the Small Miracle by Paul Gallico
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Did you run across that queer sort of legend about a wild goose? It was all up and down the beaches. You know how those things spring up. Some of the men I brought back were talking about it. It was supposed to have appeared at intervals the last days between Dunkirk and La Panne. If you saw it, you we ...Show more
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Published for the first time in flipback - the new, portable, stylish format that's taken Europe by storm. Written as a form of personal confession - of love, of grief, of anger, of jealousy and of lust - the sonnets encompass a huge range of human emotion beautifully expressed within the restrictions o ...Show more
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
When Werther dances with the beautiful Lotte. It is a joy, however, that can only ever be short-lived. Engaged to another man, she tolerates his adoration and encourages his friendship but can never return his love. When he receives a letter telling him that she is married, his passion turns to destruct ...Show more
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It ...Show more
The Sunjata Story by Bamba Suso
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Epics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A child is born who will overthrow a king . . . After the leader of a great African kingdom hears that a baby has been born who will destroy him, he hides behind a mighty army and surrounds himself with magical charms. There remains only one way to kill him. Concealing this secret weakness from t ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international conseq ...Show more
The Twelfth Day of July (Kevin and Sadie #1) by Joan Lingard
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Originals
The Twelfth Day of July is first of Joan Lingard's influential Kevin and Sadie books, set in Belfast during the Troubles. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Sadie is Protestant, Kevin is Catholic - and on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide. It starts with a ...Show more
The Wave by Morton Rhue
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Originals
Laurie isn't sure what to make of 'The Wave'. It had begun as a simple history experiment to liven up their World War II studies and had become a craze that was taking over their lives. Laurie's classmates are changing from normal teenagers into chanting, saluting fanatics. 'The Wave' is sweeping throu ...Show more
Tintin and the Picaros (#23 HB) by Herge
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Tintin (Hardback)
A reluctant Tintin returns to revolutionary San Theodoros for his final complete adventure.
Ulysses (Clothbound Classic) by James Joyce
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Set in Dublin, Ulysses tells the story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin (16 June 1904). The title of the work references the fact that James Joyce draws heavily on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey, in the work, creating parallels between Bloom and Ulysses (Odysseus), Molly Bloom and Penelope (U ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe; Susan M. Ryan (Editor)
$18.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Norton Library
What does it mean to be free? The first black hero of literature, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Tom is a slave who suffers for refusing to obey his white oppressors. Few books have changed the world as much as Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published in 1852, nine years before the start of the American Civil Wa ...Show more