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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Clothbound Classics
Jane Austen's timeless works of romantic fiction have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and adored writers in the English language. Now any fan of Austen's sparkling literary satires can collect all six of her full-length novels in magnificent clothbound editions. With covers by award-wi ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
$55.00 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 and tactile cloth.Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ...Show more
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
$48.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick Illustrations by Rockwell Kent Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captai ...Show more
Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Ch'eng-en
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng'en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk's quest for Buddhist scriptures, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu M ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
"Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. ... It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.) "Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dal ...Show more
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunchis an exhilarating ride into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. An unnerving tale of an addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, Naked Lunch's formal innovat ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four Clothbound Classic by George Orwell
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
'Who controls the past controls the future- who controls the present controls the past.'Hidden away in the Records Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, w ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$48.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stew ...Show more
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and enchanting novel, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Orlando has always been an outsider...His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizab ...Show more
Paradise Lost by John Milton
$59.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Clothbound Classics
Milton's celebrated epic poem, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In Paradise LostMilton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuri ...Show more
Paradise Lost by John Milton; John Leonard (Introduction by, Notes by, Editor); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
$45.21 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
In his epic work Paradise Lost, John Milton seeks "to justify the ways of God to men" through the familiar Christian story of the fall from grace. The poem is imbued with Milton's profoundly individual view of man's place in the universe and his intellectual and spiritual quest for redemption in the fac ...Show more