Animal Farm by George Orwell
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others' When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded ...Show more
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Popular Penguins by Ken Kesey
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-lovi ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning that combine to profoun ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story [Thorsons Classics edition] by RICHARD BACH
21.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The complete edition of a timeless classic, includes the recently rediscovered Part Four and 'Last Words' by Richard Bach.Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. 'Most gulls don't bother to learn mor ...Show more
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass (Collins Classics) by Lewis Carroll
10.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
This edition contains the original, unabridged text.John Tenniel's iconic illustrations bring the worlds of Wonderland and the Looking Glass to life.57,500 words.
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
15.99 NZD
Category: 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.
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
Man Alone (Popular Penguin) by John Mulgan
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
Johnson, an English WWI veteran, comes to New Zealand to find a new life. In Auckland he is caught up in the Great Depression riots, and heads south to the central North Island, where he work as a farm hand. An affair with his boss’s wife and the accidental killing of his boss cause him to flee across r ...Show more
Collins Classics - The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
10.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
★The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn★ Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. ...Show more