Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library
Catherine Morland meets all the trappings of Gothic horror and imagines the worst. Disaster does eventually strike, as it does in the real world as distinct from the romantic one, but without spoiling the wonderful atmosphere of this story.
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library
'Mansfield Park' is one of Austen's more sophisticated novels - together with the gently satirical depiction of polite society it exposes the ills of class prejudice, and before achieving the requisite happy ending, the people of Mansfield Park must cope with adultery, betrayal and social ruin.
Great Expectations (Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
15.00 NZD
17.00 (11% off)
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Collector's Library
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
15.00 NZD
17.00 (11% off)
Category: Collectors Library
After a series of unhappy episodes, the orphaned Oliver Twist runs away to London. Here, he is thrust into the darkly comic world of Fagin, his apprentice the Artful Dodger and their gang of child thieves. Can Oliver escape from their clutches and discover his true history?
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
15.00 NZD
17.00 (11% off)
Category: Collectors Library
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in a marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, voracious spending and eventually, adultery.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Collector's Library
When first published, The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its portrayal of fashionable fin de siecle decadence. In Wilde's updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henry Wotton, who lives selfishly for amoral pleasure; Dorian's good angel or conscience is the ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Collector's Library
Set in mid-17th century Boston, this tale of passion, puritanism and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. Its heroine, Hester Prynne, is compelled by her own moral autonomy to wear the scarlet letter but she emerges as a woman with her integrity intact.
Wuthering Heights (Collector's Library) by Emily Bronte
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Collector's Library
Forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, Lockwood stumbles upon its tempestuous history: the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him. It is the innocent heirs who must struggle to escape Heathcliff's vengeance.
The Age of Reason: Popular Penguins by Jean-Paul Sartre
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reasonfollows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in t ...Show more