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Orlando by Virginia Woolf
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and enchanting novel, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Orlando has always been an outsider...His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizab ...Show more
Persuasion (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen; Gillian Beer (Introduction by, Editor, Notes by); Coralie Bickford-smith (Illustrator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Sir Walter Elliot, de Kellynch-Hall, dans le comté de Somerset, n'avait jamais touché un livre pour son propre amusement, si ce n'est le livre héraldique. Là il trouvait de l'occupation dans les heures de désoeuvre- ment, et de la consolation dans les heures de chagrin. Devant ces vieux parchemins, il é ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
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. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor F ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by: Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave ...Show more
The Iliad (Clothbound Classic) by Homer
$45.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Clothbound Classic) by Thomas Hardy; Keith Wilson (Editor); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
At a country fair near Casterbridge in the fictional county of Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober the n ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a rand ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Anne Bronte is the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son. By challenging the prevailing morals of the time the novel caused a critic to pronounce it ''utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls' ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James
$48.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in danger - and if so, from whom? The novella is accompanied here by several more of the ve ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
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. From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth . ...Show more
Ulysses (Clothbound Classic) by James Joyce
$50.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Set in Dublin, Ulysses tells the story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin (16 June 1904). The title of the work references the fact that James Joyce draws heavily on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey, in the work, creating parallels between Bloom and Ulysses (Odysseus), Molly Bloom and Penelope (U ...Show more