Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
The Definitive Edition Illustrations by John Tenniel The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, The Annotated Alice is a landmark event in the rich history of Lewis Carroll and cause to celebrate the remarkable career of Martin Gardner. For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days: Popular Penguins by Jules Verne
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness" One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he ...Show more
Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen / Karen Blixen
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions ar ...Show more
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing 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. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, ...Show more
Barmy in Wonderland by P. G. Wodehouse
$38.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
With each volume edited and reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth, these novels are elegant additions to the legions of Wodehouse fansa libraries.
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