The Thirty-Nine Steps: Popular Penguins by John Buchan
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Richard Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns la ...Show more
The Tolkien Collection (5 Unwin Paperbacks) by J. R. R. Tolkien
$85.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A reissue for the 50th Anniversary of the classic complete and unabridged 46 CD gift set, complete with new slipcase artwork. Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touc ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary' Rediscover Kafka's classic work of psychological horror. The Trial is the terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge abo ...Show more
The Trial: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Trial (Der Process in German) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavi ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James
$48.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in danger - and if so, from whom? The novella is accompanied here by several more of the ve ...Show more
The Unbearable Bassington by Saki
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Secondhand. The novella The Unbearable Bassington follows the travails of Comus Bassington, a playboy and ne'er-do-well who is ultimately sent away to the British Colonies by his long-suffering family.
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth . ...Show more
The White Nile by Alan Moorehead; Jeremy Bernstein (Preface by)
$18.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Adventure Library
It's been called the greatest geographical secret since the discovery of America: the source of the Nile. For centuries, adventurers and explorers have searched in vain for this mysterious place. Now, Alan Moorehead journeys back in time to follow these people in their quest for the origin of the mighty ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Folio Society
Reprint of 1908 edition with illustrations by James Lynch and introduction by Alan Bennett. Near fine condition with slipcase.