The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Popular Penguins by L. Frank Baum
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum. The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The novel is one of the best-kn ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat: Popular Penguins by Jerome K. Jerome
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye - including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and heroic battles with swans ...Show more
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Crime & Espionage Classics) by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
George Smiley faces his greatest challenge yet, unmasking a Soviet double agent at the heart of the British establishmentGeorge Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy.The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lampl ...Show more
To the Lighthouse: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"To the Lighthouse" is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel and is widely acknowledged as being among the greatest literary achievements of this century. It is also the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island where the Ramsay family as well as various guests enjoy the long summer in each ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
When young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map among a captain's belongings, the scene is set for an adventure to discover Treasure Island. With 80 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of pirates, treasure and swashbuckling action on the high seas is the archetypal ripping ...Show more
Treasure Island: Popular Penguins by Robert Louis Stevenson
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Islandhas also had great appeal for adult readers and was admired by Mark Twain, Rudyar ...Show more
Ulysses (Clothbound Classic) by James Joyce
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Set in Dublin, Ulysses tells the story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin (16 June 1904). The title of the work references the fact that James Joyce draws heavily on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey, in the work, creating parallels between Bloom and Ulysses (Odysseus), Molly Bloom and Penelope (U ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin - A Tale of Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
$45.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Cloth Bound Pocket Ser.
A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature's best-loved characters, Becky Sharp. Ruthless social climber and irrepressible anti-hero Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her position in Society, from impoverished orphan to woman of means. Clever, lively and resourceful, Becky is the t ...Show more
Vanity Fair (Clothbound Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
$48.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Simon JamesIn the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their p ...Show more