The Widow Couderc by Georges Simenon; Sian Reynolds (Translator); Siân Reynolds (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'Sensuously detailed . . . edgy . . . riveting' Financial TimesTwo strangers meet on a bus along a dusty road in rural France. Tati is a tough, work-worn widow, who runs the farm her late husband left behind, while trying to keep out of the way of her predatory in-laws. Jean is an odd, quiet man, recent ...Show more
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The classic bestseller behind this year's biggest movie, this definitive paperback edition features nine illustrations and two maps drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien, and a preface by Christopher Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pant ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales (Timeless Classics) by Lewis Carroll
$45.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Timeless Classics Ser.
This lovingly crafted edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales is the perfect gift for any child or classic story lover. Delve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete collection of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales and original, iconic illustrations by Joh ...Show more
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales by Various
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A spine-tinglingly beautiful hardback collection of some of Japan's scariest yet still compelling classic ghost stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to ven ...Show more
Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (Classics in Graphics) by Steve Barlow, Steve Skidmore
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics in Graphics
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing like you've never seen it - or read it - before! Classics in Graphics: Much Ado About Nothing has been adapted by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow, and brought to life through the visual talents of illustrator Wendy Tan Shiau Wei. The famous battle of ...Show more
The Complication (#6 Program) by Suzanne Young
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Program Ser.
Tatum and Weston seek revenge against The Program in this heart-pounding final installment in Suzanne Young's New York Times bestselling Program series--now with a reimagined look. Every cure has a cost. Tatum Masterson learned this after years of being monitored by The Program. She witnessed it when he ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Count Dracula's castle is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and the blood of the innocent prized above all. Young Jonathan Harker approaches the gloomy gates with no idea what he is about to face . . . And back in England eerie incidents are unfolding as strange puncture marks appear ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) "While others watched the TV series I re-read the book. When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, reviewers compared Margaret Atwood unfavourably to male writers of science fiction. ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' ..... Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unfor ...Show more
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
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-SmithToday, George Orwell is perhaps most famous for his iconic novels - Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm - but ...Show more