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War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
55.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes. At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly e ...Show more
Waterloo : Little Black Classic by Victor Hugo
2.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 125 | Reading Level: very good
'Brave Frenchmen, will you not surrender?' Cambronne answered, 'Merde!' A tense, dramatic account of the Battle of Waterloo - and how a rain shower changed history - from Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Misérables. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the firs ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...Show more
Why I Am so Clever : Little Black Classic by Friedrich Nietzsche
2.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 102 | Reading Level: very good
Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether? Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
24.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Seais edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress An ...Show more
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
Women in Love by Mark (INT) Lindeth; Kinkead-Weeks David R.; Vasey John (EDT); Farmer Lindeth (EDT); Worthen David R. (EDT); Vasey D. H.; Farmer Lawrence
24.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
9.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Classics S.
The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote Pennine Hills. The book has been interpreted as an historical romance, a ghostly thriller, a psychological love-story, a religious allegory and a nature poem. This is the author's only novel.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
14.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
"Wuthering Heights" tells the tragic love story of Catherine Earnshaw and the tortured Heathcliff, characters that have moved generations of readers.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
11.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, i ...Show more