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The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
$39.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayasa now celebrating its thirtieth anniversary IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. ...Show more
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
When Werther dances with the beautiful Lotte. It is a joy, however, that can only ever be short-lived. Engaged to another man, she tolerates his adoration and encourages his friendship but can never return his love. When he receives a letter telling him that she is married, his passion turns to destruct ...Show more
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Commu ...Show more
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It ...Show more
The Sun Also Rises (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Ernest Hemingway
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Hemingway'sclassic novel of post-war disillusionment-the emblematic novel of the Lost Generation-now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, in a beautiful Graphic Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckled edges, and specially commissioned cover art by R. Kikuo Johnson and a new introduction b ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder ...Show more
The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international conseq ...Show more
The Three Little Pigs by Gledhill, Illustrated by Carly
$16.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character-driven narratives and colorful illustrations. Designed to be the perfect one-minute bedtime story (or five minutes--if you're begged to read it over and over), parents can feel good about exposing their chi ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants o ...Show more
The Trials of Rumpole by John Mortimer
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from Pommeroy's wine bar, is back for further misadventures. Amid an unfortunate and temporary downturn in L ...Show more
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women's history.' In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to wr ...Show more
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum; Carly Gledhill (Illustrator)
$15.99 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
When a storm rages through the Kansas countryside, little Dorothy finds that she and her farmhouse have been swallowed up by a tornado and spirited off to the magical Land of Oz. But when she finds that her house has fallen on the Wicked Witch of the East, all Dorothy wants is to go back to Kansas. To r ...Show more