Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
The Art of War: Popular Penguins by Sun Tzu
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also rel ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins) by Katherine Mansfield
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emo ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very spec ...Show more
Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of one of the most subversive novels ever written - reading Catch-22 is nothing less than a rite of passage.Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yos ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous masterwork.You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replac ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slaver ...Show more
The Woman in Black - Vintage Classics by Susan Hill
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Hardbacks Ser.
A beautiful hardback edition of one of the scariest and most ingenious novels ever written.Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is n ...Show more
The Common Reader: First Series (Collins Classics) by Virginia. Woolf
12.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out'In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the ...Show more
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
For fans of true crime and of classic crime fiction, The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey is a gripping thriller featuring detective Alan Grant and a masterful exposé of the powerful connections between media, the establishment and what people choose to believe. Based on a true story.Complete and unabr ...Show more
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | 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
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
26.00 NZD
Category: 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-SmithPublished when she was only eighteen, Fran oise Sagan's astonishing novella, Bonjour Tristesse, became an insta ...Show more