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1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (Alma Classics) by George Orwell
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
Ravaged by years of war and civil conflict, Britain has changed its name to Airstrip One and become part of Oceania one of the three totalitarian blocks dominating the world which is ruled by a secretive leader called Big Brother, who keeps the population in thrall through strict surveillance and brutal ...Show more
A Christmas Carol: A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic by Charles Dickens
$39.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
The classic seasonal tale of self-discovery, with 80 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. This classic seasonal tale of self-discovery has become one of Charles Dickens's most famous and best-loved works. On Christmas Eve, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghost of his former business p ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
$17.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$17.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
Aesop's Fables Illustrated by Aesop
$59.99 NZD
Category: Myth and legend | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...Show more
All-Action Classics: Tom Sawyer by Ben Caldwell; Mark Twain
$22.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: All-Action Classics Ser.
An exciting approach to the classics: vibrant, appealing graphic novels that bring beloved stories to a new generation of kids.With its lively, fun narrative and irrepressible hero, Tom Sawyer is tailor-made for the graphic novel form. Just imagine such classic moments as Tom and Becky in the bat-filled ...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
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
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
Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
$17.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse; subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (German: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft)) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Za ...Show more
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a Welsh mountain village in 1939 and become closely involved with several unforgettable characters. Age 12+