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Black Arrow The by Robert Louis Stevenson
26.00 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, young Dick Shelton's loyalties are torn between a guardian who betrays him and the leader of the secret fellowship, "The Black Arrow". In order to survive he must distinguish friend from foe and confront the tests of war, shipwreck, murder and forbidden ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
19.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Classics
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening ...Show more
Bliss and Other Stories - out of print by Katherine Mansfield
24.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the title story of this collection, we meet Bertha, a young married woman, who experiences a blissful sexual awakening, only to be cruelly disillusioned. In the 14 stories in this collection, the characters reveal the universal struggle of human beings to fulfil their expectations.
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
24.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Secon ...Show more
Captain Cook : The Seaman's Seaman by Alan Villiers
24.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Classics S.
James Cook began his seafaring career in the 'coal cats' of the North Sea trade. He served in the Royal Navy, playing a major part in the capture of Quebec during the Seven Year's war. Appointed to HMS Endeavour - a collier bark - he led an expedition to Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand and Batavia. His s ...Show more
Confessions by St Augustine; R S Pine-Coffin (Translated by)
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Augustine's Confessions might be one of the most profound Christian testimonies ever recorded. Not necessarily because Augustine led an unusual life or faced intriguing circumstances which had to be overcome; because, in reality, the actual events of his life were relatively less than extraordinary. Aug ...Show more
Confucius - The Analects by Confucius
23.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Analects are a collection of Confucius's sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self ...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
Decline And Fall (TV Tie in) by Evelyn Waugh
24.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A tie-in edition of Waugh's first and funniest novel to accompany the new BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Sent down from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of Her Majesty's priso ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
19.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determine ...Show more
Don Quixote (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Miguel Cervantes
50.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
9.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house?He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath... Yet even Count Dracula?s unnerving appearance and the frightened reaction of the local peasants fail to warn Jonathan H ...Show more