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Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en
$32.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Wu Ch??ng-?n wrote Monkey in the middle of the sixteenth century, adding to an ancient Chinese legend his own touches of delicacy and humour. The result is an attractive jumble of the absurd and the profound, of religion and history, of anti-bureaucratic satire and pure poetry. While the story tells of ...Show more
Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Ch'eng-en
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng'en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk's quest for Buddhist scriptures, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu M ...Show more
My Turn to Make the Tea by Monica Dickens
$26.05 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' Nina StibbePoppy, newly recruited cub reporter at the Downingham Post, is determined to prove to the editor that he's wrong in his belief that 'Women are a nuisance in t ...Show more
Number the Stars (PB) by Lois Lowry
$17.10 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: HarperCollins Children's Modern Classics Ser.
In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal, newly reissued in the Essential Modern Classics range. "They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take th ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
Persuasion (Painted Edition) by Jane Austen
$56.58 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Harper Muse Classics: Painted Editions Ser.
Jane Austen's Persuasion is now available in a fine exclusive collector's edition featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and distinctive interior treatments, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Each collectible volume will be the perfect addition to any well-appo ...Show more
Peter Pan and Wendy :A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic O/P by J.M. Barrie
$40.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adults | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
When Peter Pan flies in through the Darling children's nursery window in search of his shadow, the scene is set for a wonderful tale of adventure and excitement. A new edition with 70 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. 'Then Peter knew that there was not a moment to lose. 'Come,' he cried imperiou ...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
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
$29.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Irish Classics Ser.
This is the story of a haunted childhood, a house where love and trust are hard to hold on to. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries to make sense of life, poverty and violence shift and ob ...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
Summer by Edith Wharton
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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-SmithA novella regarded by Edith Wharton as one of her very best, Summer tells the tale of forbidden sexual passion ...Show more
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (PB) by N. J. Dawood
$12.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Classics Ser.
The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical "Young Woman and her Five Lovers" and t ...Show more