To Serve Them All My Days by Delderfield R F
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Miner's son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918, shell-shocked and bitterly hardened by the violence of war. He begins life again as a master at a remote Devon school, controlling the destiny of boys barely his junior. As the years pass David becomes a teacher of ra ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound 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
Street Haunting (Little Clothbound Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$26.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound 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.'The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the s ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
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, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The story grew out of a map that led to imaginary tre ...Show more
Money for Nothing by P. G. Wodehouse
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
The action is mostly set at Rudge Hall, home to the obese miser Lester Carmody, and at Healthward Ho, a health farm run by 'Chimp Twist, along with his cohorts 'Soapy' and 'Dolly' Molloy. who were all previously encountered in Sam The Sudden (1925) and would return in Money in the Bank (1946). Hugo Camo ...Show more
The Girl in Blue by P. G. Wodehouse
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
The vintage plot concerns a Gainsborough miniature, a mouldering country house, an overweight solicitor, a fortune-hunter, a butler who isn't a butler, an American corporate lawyer and his kleptomaniac sister; but the heart of the story - in every sense - concerns Jerry West and his determined pursuit o ...Show more
The Man Upstairs by P. G. Wodehouse
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
Wodehouse's well-known gift for satisfying plots and comic surprises is evident on every page, but there are also signs of his debt to earlier writers in the realistic tradition. Set mainly in London or New York, many of the stories concern ordinary people - shopassistants, schoolmasters, secretaries, s ...Show more
Sam the Sudden by P. G. Wodehouse
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
Having failed miserably while working for his uncle, Sam finds himself shipped off to America. He would much rather have been headed to Canada as he'd fallen in love with the picture of a women he'd found left behind in a remote cabin when he'd vacationed there. That is, until he sees another picture of ...Show more
The Girl on the Boat by P. G. Wodehouse
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
When Sam Marlowe falls in love with his cousin's sparky ex-fiancee he finds himself up against stiff opposition from her millionaire father, her father's best friend and the best friend's son for whom she is destined, all of them travelling together aboard the RMS Atlantic. Nothing daunted, Sam persever ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Top 10 Finalist on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Louisa May Alcott's heartwarming tale of the indelible bond between sisters This treasured novel, drawn in part from Louisa May Alcott's personal experience, brings to life the provincial yet abundantly full lives of the March sisters. Meg, Jo, Be ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Leo Tolstoy
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
TRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE. Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials fo ...Show more