The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins) by Katherine Mansfield
15.99 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emo ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
40.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Clothbound | Series: Clothbound Classics
Jane Austen's timeless works of romantic fiction have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and adored writers in the English language. Now any fan of Austen's sparkling literary satires can collect all six of her full-length novels in magnificent clothbound editions. With covers by award-wi ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm; Jack Zipes (Introduction by, Translator)
24.00 NZD
Category: Fairy Tales
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JACK ZIPES. Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a m ...Show more
Love and Friendship: And Other Youthful Writings (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen
40.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Clothbound | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Love and Freindship by Jane Austen Love and Freindship sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum. They contain, amon ...Show more
Persuasion: The Complete Novel, Featuring the Characters' Letters and Papers, Written and Folded by Hand by Jane Austen, Barbara Heller
89.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Novels by Chronicle Bks.
This special edition invites fans inside the world of Anne Elliot. It includes the full text of Persuasion, plus gorgeous, removable replicas of the characters' letters and other paper ephemera.Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne Elliot remains one of the literature's most unforgettable confessions. It i ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Stories (HB Clothbound) by Charles Dickens
26.00 NZD
Category: Puffin Clothbound | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
'Bah,'said Scrooge, 'Humbug.'But that was before he was presented with visions of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come, which gave him a whole new lease of life:'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A ...Show more
Sons For The Return Home: (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
15.99 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
40.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Clothbound | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath a ...Show more
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
30.00 NZD
Category: Puffin Clothbound
'From grammar to the tenderness in which this story is delivered, E. B. White's writing is so perfect... And Garth William's muted illustrations are entirely without fault. Whether read aloud or solo, this is a book well deserving of its "classic" status.' - The Children's Book Review Wilbur the pig's l ...Show more
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
15.99 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics
Ground-breaking. Original. Heart-rending. Most talked about book in New Zealand, ever. Adapted into a blockbuster movie. Still in print three decades later. Once Were Warriors is one of a dozen classics released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format rea ...Show more
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
15.99 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics
A tale of raw adventure as Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. It uncovers the slow maturing of love and trust between two loners in a hard world. Filmed as Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Sense and Sensibility (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen
40.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Clothbound | Series: Clothbound Classics
" As nearly flawless as any fiction could be."-- Eudora Welty"As nearly flawless as any fiction could be."--Eudora Welty"As nearly flawless as any fiction could be." --Eudora WeltyFamously characterized as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of "civili ...Show more