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Anne of Green Gables [Painted Edition] by L M Montgomery
$55.00 NZD
Category: Children's | Series: Harper Muse Classics: Painted Editions Ser.
The beloved story of orphan Anne Shirley's adoption by an elderly brother and sister is now available in an exclusive collector's edition featuring: A beautiful, high-end hardcover with Laci Fowler's distinctive hand-painted art and embossing/debossing treatments to bring the art to life Story ...Show more
Averno by Louise Gluck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abdu ...Show more
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, ...Show more
Bad Blood (4th Estate Matchbook Classics) by Lorna Sage
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
One of the most critically acclaimed memoirs ever written. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. Lorna sage's outstanding childhood and adol ...Show more
Black Beauty (HarperCollins Children's Classics) by Anna Sewell
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's | Series: HarperCollins Children's Classics Ser.
This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty is the perfect addition to any bookshelf. Anna Sewell’s beloved novel tells the story of the handsome, sweet-natured Black Beauty – a horse who recounts his life’s journey in his own unique voice. From his carefree t ...Show more
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
$13.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
John Flory is a disillusioned timber merchant based in the remote town of Kyauktada in 1920s Burma. Whilst his English peers gather night after night to drink and gossip in their exclusive club, Flory has embraced local life - his best friend is Dr Veraswami and his mistress is Ma Hla May. The slow, sti ...Show more
Carl Von Clausewitz On War by Carl von Clausewitz
$23.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Classics Ser.
War...is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will' Writing at the time of Napoleon's greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this landmark treatise on the art of warfare, which presented war as part of a coherent system of political though ...Show more
Chernobyl Prayer - Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A beautifully written book, it's been years since I had to look away from a page because it was just too heart-breaking to go on' - Arundhati Roy, Elle'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, Observer The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Ale ...Show more
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
Collins Classics - The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
$11.00 NZD
Category: Children's | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
★The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn★ Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. ...Show more
Committed Writings by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. 'Letters to a German Friend' was Camus' first wartime intervention, written in 1943 in order 'to make our battle more effective'. 'Reflections on the Guill ...Show more