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A Parisian Affair (Penguin pocket classics) by Guy de Maupassant
17.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Classics
'Nowhere could she discover the dens of iniquity about which she had dreamed...' Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly h ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
19.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in con ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
19.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who i ...Show more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
21.00 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published illustrations by the author, and an introducti ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
19.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, this novel offers a satire of vanity and pretension. It is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
19.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is d ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
19.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing, but unsuitable John Willoughby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is strugglin ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
19.95 NZD
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A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in Penguin Classics. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship wi ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
19.99 NZD
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In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success, there always lurks the s ...Show more
The Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Claire Tomalin (Editor)
14.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet.
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
21.00 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to ...Show more
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