The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle; Judith John (Contribution by)
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
Missing, assumed dead, for a long time, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear partner Dr. Watson. Furthermore, not before time London has never been in more need of his unprecedented administrations: a deadly individual with a compressed air firearm stalks the city.Among 13 additional splend ...Show more
Shakespeare's Macbeth (Classics in Graphics) by Steve Barlow, Steve Skidmore
30.00 NZD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels | Series: Classics in Graphics
Shakespeare's Macbeth like you've never seen it - or read it - before!Classics in Graphics: Macbeth has been adapted by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow, and brought to life through the visual talents of illustrators Jason Millet and Edu Rubio. The tragic downfall reads like your favourit ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Includes pictures and section on Dostoevsky's life and works The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical, and witty monologue ranges from general observations and phi ...Show more
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
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The Little Prince: Popular Penguins by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of ext ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
The Waves is an experimental novel by using English writer Virginia Woolf, first posted in 1931. The book has seven characters: Bernard (a story-teller), Louis (an outsider), Neville (who may also were partially based totally on Lytton Strachey), Jinny (a socialite), Susan (a mom), Rhoda (a solitary fem ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. A ...Show more
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more
Transit by Anna Seghers; Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator)
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY STUART EVERS: 'A genuine, fully fledged masterpiece of the twentieth century; one that remains just as terrifyingly relevant and truthful in the twenty-first'An existential, political, literary thriller first published in 1944, that explores the plight of the refugee with extraordinary com ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window'. A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, "Dracula" also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he m ...Show more