The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
Cover design by Jacqueline Groag 'This crazy world whirled about her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked ...She was in the night again, and the doll was herself' One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe"'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel ...Show more
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Manuscripts don't burn'In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural el ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat he immediately begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the cha ...Show more
The Master and Margarita (Alma Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov; Hugh Aplin (Translator)
$17.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
A haunting study of guilt and lost love in "Penguin Classics", Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson. 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 foll ...Show more
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Well known for coining the term 'Global Village', Marshall McLuhan's thinking was, and still is, revolutionary. His theories, many of which are illustrated in this astonishing 'inventory of effects', force us to question how modes of communication have shaped society. This is an astonishing work by a tr ...Show more
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
The Mersey Sound (revised edition 1983) by Adrian Henri
$27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'"The Mersey Sound" is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form'. With this modest brief, "The ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, George Eliot
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin English Library
If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie? Tragic and moving, "The Mill on the Floss" is a novel of grand passions and tormented lives. As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins. 'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man'. When Rachel Verinder's birthday present ...Show more