The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
14.99 NZD
Category: Classics
Is a tale of extraordinary events, tragedy, horror, pathos, humour and a gallery of minor characters. The portrait of the hideous musician, crazed by his extreme ugliness, shows compassionate insight into the criminally insane mind.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
14.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
14.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Treasure Island (Collector's Library) by Robert Louis Stevenson
14.99 NZD
Category: Classics
Originally designed as a story for boys, but with great appeal for adult readers, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by Long John Silver.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Collector's Library) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
14.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's library
This book charts the paths from slavery to freedom of fugitives who escape the chains of American chattel slavery and of a martyr who transcends all earthly ties, and locates the issues of race and the role of women.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
14.99 NZD
19.95 (24% off)
Category: Classics
After a series of unhappy episodes, the orphaned Oliver Twist runs away to London. Here, he is thrust into the darkly comic world of Fagin, his apprentice the Artful Dodger and their gang of child thieves. Can Oliver escape from their clutches and discover his true history?
Great Expectations (Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
14.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story by Max Beerbohm
16.99 NZD
Category: Classics
Zuleika, the dazzling offspring of a curate and a circus-rider, is the grand-daughter of the Warden of Judas College, Oxford. On her visit to the city during Eights Week, her beauty wreaks havoc. Attracted only 'to men who would not bow down to her', Zuleika is disappointed in her quest for one whom she ...Show more
The Machine Stops and Other Stories (Collector's Library) by E. M. Forster
16.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
"The Machine Stops" was first published in November of 1909 and is the one science fiction story in this collection, pre-dating both "Brave New World" and "1984". It tells of a dystopian future - 'the machine' has taken over the lives of men and it has an uncomfortable resonance today when so much human ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics
Like many of Dickens's novels, 'Nicholas Nickleby' is characterised by his criticism of cruelty and social injustice, but above all it is one of the greatest comic masterpieces of 19th-century literature.
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
John Leech's original magnificent illustrations to "A Christmas Carol" have been beautifully hand-coloured by Barbara Frith. A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views C ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
Partly modelled on his own life--although in no way a direct autobiography--David Copperfield follows a young boy's life, from his birth in Suffolk, through the trials and tribulations of childhood (including his mother's death), to his triumphant success as a novelist. The masterful early scenes, in pa ...Show more