The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
"He is so scandalously weak, and she is so radically vicious, that they cannot but be wrong together. The very fact that such a man should be a bishop among us is to me terribly strong evidence of evil days coming". When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of thef ...Show more
The Last Tycoon by Scott F. Fitzgerald
$19.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
Monroe Stahr is a film producer at the height of his career, revered by the industry and in control of every aspect of his business empire. In his ruthless rise to the top, the young widower has had little time for sentiment, until he meets the beguiling Kathleen Moore, and the two embark on an intense ...Show more
The Legendary Adventures of Alexander the Great by Richard Stoneman
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
He was destined to rule the world . . . A prince is born under a star of good fortune. It is prophesied that he will become the greatest king of all time. Alexander grows up to fulfill this destiny - powerful as a lion, skilled in the art of war and leader of a vast army. Soon his fame sweeps the wo ...Show more
The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Lampedusa's masterpiece, one of the finest works of twentieth century fiction, is set amongst an aristocratic family facing social and political changes in the wake of Garibaldi's invasion of Sicily in 1860. At the head of the family is the prince, Don Fabrizio. Proud and stubborn, he is accustomed to k ...Show more
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Endlessly digressive, boundlessly imaginative and unmatched in its absurd and timeless wit, Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" is edited with an introduction by Melvin New and Joan New, and includes a critical essay by Christopher Ricks in "Penguin Classics". Laurenc ...Show more
The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Princeis the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of extr ...Show more
The Madness of Nero by Cornelius Tacitus
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
An Emperor's crimes provoke the wrath of the gods . . . Nero has seized control of Rome and the crown. He is willing to destroy anyone that gets in his way. No one is safe - not even his scheming mother. As its new Emperor sinks to insane levels of brutality, Rome becomes a hell of corruption, depra ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
Cover design by Jacqueline Groag 'This crazy world whirled about her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked ...She was in the night again, and the doll was herself' One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe"'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel ...Show more
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Manuscripts don't burn'In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural el ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat he immediately begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the cha ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
A haunting study of guilt and lost love in "Penguin Classics", Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the foll ...Show more