The Erotic Poems by Ovid
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the "Amores", Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The intimate a ...Show more
Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
$37.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin African Writers Ser.
The great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee's novel that he wrote in secret, on toilet paper, while in prison--as described in his memoir Wrestling with the DevilOne of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's fame, Devil on the Cross is a powerful fictional critique of capitalism. It tells the tragi ...Show more
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the "Tale of Genji", this is one of the major Japanese classics.
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident ...Show more
Potiki by Patricia Grace
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
A Māori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purchase the community property, move the community meeting hall, and construct many new buildings, including an "underwater zoo." The story is told in several chapters that switch narrators. Sometimes, it is ...Show more
The Denniston Rose (Popular Penguins) by Jenny Pattrick
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty co ...Show more
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
?I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest? English version with an introduction by N. K. Sandars Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient ...Show more
Animal Farm (Alma Classics) by George Orwell
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt, and led by two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, they overthrow Mr Jones and drive him away from the farm. In the subsequent struggle for power, it is Napoleon tha ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Black Penguin Classics) by Jules Verne
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Journey to the Centre of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, ...Show more
The Arabian Nights - Tales of 1,001 Nights Volume 2 295-719 by Robert Irwin
$48.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The Arabian Nights 2
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled ...Show more
Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan by Gordon Jarvie
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral tradition and offers a carefully chosen combination of old favorites such as Tam Lin, Thomas Rymer and Adam Bell, as well as more modern stories by master story-t ...Show more
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling
$32.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist mon ...Show more