The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Katherine Mansfield's short stories revolutionised the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. They range from short, sharp studies to longer, richer tales, and 15 unfinished stories published after her death.
The Collegians by Gerald Griffin
$27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Crime Classics
This romantic melodrama set in rural Killarney in the early 19th century was based on a real case of 1829. Its impressive Irish locations, thrilling characters, complex plot involving love, rivalry, secrecy, betrayal, and impressive denoument made it into one of the most successful thrillers of its day. ...Show more
The Complete Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Chaucer's most famous (albiet unfinished) work, presented in a modern English verse translation which succeeds in retaining the charm of the original while ensuring the text is accessible to a general readership. This edition also includes plates from the celebrated Kelmscott Chaucer, which was produced ...Show more
The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jane Austen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Here in one volume are her seven great novels: "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion", and "Lady Susan". Through ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka; Edwin Muir (Translator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
In AmericaKarl Rossmann is 'packed off to America by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be. Kafka, a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America; so, as Max Brod commented, ' ...Show more
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$60.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
This volume, authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, contains all 4 full-length novels and all 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. At over a thousand pages, the weighty tome is a perfect gift and ideal companion for a long stay on a desert island (or a leisurely trip through the English c ...Show more
The Compulsive Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan (ed Norma Farnes)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This second superb collected work of one of Britain's best-loved comedians is an excellent companion to the sensational original, The Essential Spike Milligan. Spanning his 50-year career and incorporating a rich and varied range of material, this second anthology is as unmissable as the first. When Spi ...Show more
The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool'. In "The Confidence-Man", Melville's unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who ...Show more
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: And Six Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edith Wharton's novels of manners seem to grow in stature as time passes. Here, she draws a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn't know it. Although the worlds she wants to conquer have vanished, Undine herself is amazingly recognizable. She marrie ...Show more
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his d ...Show more