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
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
'In the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions...I loved you madly'. Dickens' last novel is a mystery built around a presumed crime - the murder of a nephew by his uncle. Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery u ...Show more
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Sixteen-year-old Arthur is looking for adventure, so he stows away on a whaling ship. But he gets more excitement soon after setting sail, the crew rebel against their captain and murder everyone who will not join them. The nightmare vision of a corpse-ridden ghost ship taunts them as they starve. It se ...Show more
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The New York Trilogy" is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the uni ...Show more
The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: PENGUIN CHRISTMAS CLASSICS
Gogol's classic, uproarious folktale, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. Written in 1831, this dark tale relates the adventures of Vakula, the blacksmith, in his fight against the devil, who has stolen the moon above the village of Dikanka and is wreaking havoc on i ...Show more
The Night Before Christmas Mini by CLEMENT C. MOORE
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
This pocket-size edition of "The Night Before Christmas" captures the magic of the original story with an array of enticing illustrations. "The Night Before Christmas" includes images by the world's most renowned children's book illustrators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries gathered from a coll ...Show more
The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
This is the story that inspired the legendary ballet, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. Written in 1816 by the German Romantic E. T. A. Hoffmann for his children, nephews and nieces, The Nutcracker captures better than any other story a child's wonder at Christmas. ...Show more