The Iliad by Homer Homer
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics
The IliadBy HomerAnd Achilles answered, "Most noble son of Atreus, covetous beyond all mankind, how shall the Achaeans find you another prize? We have no common store from which to take one. Those we took from the cities have been awarded; we cannot disallow the awards that have been made already. Give ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but t ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle and mighty opium". At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessi ...Show more
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
What does a great detective do when he's stuck in bed? Inspector Grant is used to prowling the streets, solving crimes and unraveling mysteries, so when he finds himself bedridden in the hospital, he needs something to occupy his mind.He turns his attention to the figure of Richard III--generally consid ...Show more
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Thief by Maurice Leblanc
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics
THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT NETFLIX SERIES, LUPIN.The year is 1905. Meet Arsène Lupin: a gentleman and a thief.When Arsène Lupin is arrested, the police think it's all over. But the most dangerous place for Lupin is to be behind bars...An enemy to the rich and powerful; a friend to the poor - Arsène ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the founda ...Show more
Frankenstein (Alma Classics) by Mary Shelley
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Alma Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre, leads a lonely life until she finds a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls at night. What is the sinister secret that threatens Jane and her new found happiness? Step int ...Show more
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
29.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational "Brooklyn Crucifixion". Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here Asher Lev plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love an ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Chartwell Classic) by F M Dostoevsky
28.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
An unabridged, elegantly designed hardcover edition for the timeless Russian classic.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney. Mark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed th ...Show more