The Wave by Morton Rhue
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | 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
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
39.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
The Scarlet Pimpernelby Baroness Emmuska OrczyIn 1792, when the hated aristocrats were being mowed down in France by Madame Guillotine, an intrepid Englishman hid his identity under the nom-de-guerre of "The Scarlet Pimpernel," and headed a band of twenty noblemen whose object was to save as many of the ...Show more
Poems for Love: A New Anthology (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Gaby Morgan
14.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A Town Like Alice The Legacy by Nevil Shute Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to ...Show more
A Christmas Carol (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Ser.
'Bah ' said Scrooge, 'Humbug ' Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show him some bitter truths abo ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
28.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cu ...Show more
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (75th Anniversary Edition) by Edith Hamilton
55.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the word and established itself as a perennial bestseller. For 75 years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascin ...Show more
Love and Friendship (Juvenilia and other short stories) by Jane Austen
17.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
'Love and Friendship' and 'Lesley Castle' provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time. 'A History of England' supplies us with a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are 'The Three Sisters', 'Catharine', the series of vign ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale (#1) by Margaret Atwood
35.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
A stunning bespoke gift package featuring an iconic design from the prize-winning artist, Noma Bar, eye-catching sprayed edges and ribbon. The perfect present for those who like their beauty with a bit of bite. The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, ...Show more
The Tournament: Text Classics by John Clarke
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Einstein's seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and van Gogh are also in the top rankings. World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, 128 of the world's most creative players - everyone from Louis Armstrong to George Orwell, Gertrude Stein to Coco ...Show more
Picture of Dorian Gray Wts by Oscar Wilde
50.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman inthe eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the ...Show more