Beowulf: A Verse Translation by Michael Alexander (Translator, Introduction by); Penguin Group (UK) Staff
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Epic poetry, English (Old); Monsters/ Poetry; Dragons/ Poetry; Dragons; Monsters; Scandinavia; Poetry / Anci ...Show more
Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights - Volume 1 by Ursula Lyons (Translator) Malcolm C. Lyons
$48.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Arabian Nights Ser.
The most significant translation in one hundred years of one of the greatest works of world literature From Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voyages of Sinbad, the stories of The Arabian Nights are timeless and unforgettable. Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings the ...Show more
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness by Ibn Fadlan
$32.00 NZD
Category: Classics
In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practice ...Show more
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov by Robert Chandler
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classics
'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'. In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talkin ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation by Jean-Claude Van Itallie
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Black Classics
'You will be happy in this life and joyful in the next'The Tibetan Book of the Deadis overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West and one of the greatest works created by any culture. Offering one of the most detailed and compelling portrayals of the after-death state i ...Show more
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Haruki Murakami (Foreword by, Introduction by); Jay Rubin (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of Penguin Classics' most popular translations--now also in our elegant black spine dress Ry nosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists--a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rash mon"and "In a Bamboo Grove" ins ...Show more
Great Expectations (Collins Classics) by Charles Dickens
$9.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Great Expectations Charles Dickens Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular, having been adapted for stage an ...Show more
The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster) by P.G. Wodehouse
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Jeeves and Wooster Ser.
A classic Jeeves and Wooster novel from P.G. Wodehouse, the great comic writer of the 20th century. Purloining an antique cow creamer under the instruction of the indomitable Aunt Dahlia is the least of Bertie's tasks, for he has to play Cupid while feuding with Spode. 'A cavalcade of perfect joy.' - ...Show more
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Things Fall Apart (Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the Penguin Classics edition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is introduced by Biyi Bandele. Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. ...Show more
Moby Dick (Collins Classics) by Herman Melville
$10.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee...' Few literary masterpieces cast quite ...Show more