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
The Machine Gunners (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Robert Westall
14.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth but wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the wreckage of a downed German bomber, he finds the ultimate trophy - a working machine gun. Hiding his discovery from the local police, Chas recruits his friends and together th ...Show more
The Water-Babies (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Kingsley
14.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Babyis a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature thro ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet : Little Black Classic by Rainer Maria Rilke
9.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle : Little Black Classic by Washington Irving
2.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'I'm not myself - I'm somebody else - that's me yonder - no - that's somebody else got into my shoes...I can't tell what's my name, or who I am!' Touching and comic short stories from the 19th century American master of the genre. It is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series ...Show more
Daphnis and Chloe : Little Black Classic by Longus
6.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'This only they knew, that the kiss had destroyed him and the bath had destroyed her.' In this beautiful Ancient Greek tale, Daphnis and Chloe are the inexperienced goatherd and shepherd who must face pirates, rivals and the confusion of their own feelings to find true love. It is one of 46 new books in ...Show more
Oroonoko : Little Black Classic by Aphra Behn
6.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues ...' Spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn's story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels.