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
Passing (Little Clothbound Classics) by Nella Larsen
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
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-SmithClare Kendry, elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-Amer ...Show more
Jane Eyre: A Retelling (Barrington Stoke) by Tanya Landman
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classic Retellings
Orphaned as a child, tormented by her guardian and cast out to a harsh boarding school, Jane Eyre has been raised in the shadow of cruelty and isolation. But when she takes a job as governess in Thornfield Hall, where secrets lurk in the attic and strange laughter echoes through the night, Jane meets th ...Show more
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday TimesBased on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary r ...Show more
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box. He was lost in a haze of booze, drugs and vilification. Then he was given a second chance. This is the life of Bret Easton Ellis, ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...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
The Beauties - Essential Stories by Anton Chekov; Nicolas Slater Pasternak (Translator)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His short stories, written throughout his life and newly translated for this essential collection, are exquisite masterpie ...Show more
Of Mice And Men (Barrington Stoke) by John Steinbeck
$21.99 NZD
$24.00 (8% off)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Teen
A superb story of power and beauty, critically acclaimed across the world and now available in an accessible format for all readers. Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on t ...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
On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author of The ForgivenAfter twenty years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong, Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to sh ...Show more
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' - The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' - Daily Telegraph 'He is using you for what you are worth.' Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it. Struggling to stay one step ahead ...Show more