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NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND RED by Dostoyevsky Fyodor
$20.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
How far would you go to escape the real world? The underground man had always felt like an outsider. He doesn't want to be like other people, working in the ant-hill' of society. So he decides to withdraw from the world, scrawling a series of darkly sarcastic notes about the torment he is suffering. Ang ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Margaret's safe existence is turned upside down when she has to move to the grim northern town of Milton. Not only does she have her eyes opened by the poverty and hardship she encounters there, but she is thrown into confusion by stern factory owner John Thornton - whose treatment of his workers brings ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who i ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, this novel offers a satire of vanity and pretension. It is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is d ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing, but unsuitable John Willoughby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is strugglin ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Wild Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure and freedom. But Huck finds himself wrestling with his conscience. Should he save Jim, or ...Show more
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his d ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, hands ...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 Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Claire Tomalin (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet.
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Some journeys are best left unmade... Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents ...Show more