Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
$225.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A Christian tale set in the Roman Empire contemporary with the life of Jesus Christ. Every page is illustrated or embellished with engravings.
Beowulf: Popular Penguins by Michael Alexander
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fidelity of implication. May it go on ... to another half-million copies." - Tom Shippey, Bulletin of the I ...Show more
Best Loved Oscar Wilde by John Wyse Jackson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Best-Loved Irish Writers Ser.
Those whom the gods love grow young. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), one of Ireland's most beloved writers, was a playwright, poet, novelist and author of fairy stories and political essays. A complex man with many sides, he was both a revolutionary thinker and a flamboyant dandy and ...Show more
Big Blonde by Dorothy Parker
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Dorothy Parker was the most talked-about woman of the decadent 1920s, notorious as a hard-drinking bad girl with a talent for endlessly quotable one-liners. In the stories collected here, she brilliantly captures the spirit of the decadent Jazz Age in New York, exposing both the dazzle and the darkness. ...Show more
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Secondhand. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. Evelyn Waugh's third novel, Black Mischief is a witty satirical novel set in the fictional empire of Azania. 'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Az ...Show more
Bleak House (Clothbound Classic) by Charles Dickens
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Clothbound Classics
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. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce gri ...Show more
Boy: Popular Penguins by Roald Dahl
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Korean edition of Boy by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake, translated by Jeong Hwoi Seong. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
An imposter has a fortune to win and his life to lose in this gripping country house mysteryA stranger enters the Ashby family home posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, appearance and every sign ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and na vet continue to charm. This volume ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh’s novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder’s infatuation with the Marchmain family and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted firs ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly ...Show more
Calypso in London by Sam Selvon
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Sam Selvon is now widely considered to be one of the greatest chroniclers of the West Indian emigrant experience. His evoc ...Show more