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The Analects by Confucius
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Analects are a collection of Confucius's sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self ...Show more
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
$23.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language | Series: Classics Ser.
With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils - and even for ordinary citizens in the courts of law. In response, the technique of rhetoric rapidly developed, bringing virtu ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: Read John Boyne's powerful classic ahead of the sequel ALL THE BROKEN PLACES by John Boyne
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adults | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone.' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ...Show more
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
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The Green Road by Anne Enright
$24.00 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Irish Classics Ser. (Vintage Enright)
Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her own children - forces them to confro ...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 Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
$35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880. ...Show more
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
$26.99 NZD
Category: Sci Fi | Series: Voyager Classics Ser.
The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name. Written in the age of the atom when America and Europe optimisitcally viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Noble Prize for Literature. Here, is a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...Show more
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
$17.10 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: HarperCollins Children's Modern Classics Ser.
This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Modern Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf. Milo is a boy who doesn't know what to do with himself - not just sometimes but always. After all, almost everything is a waste of time . . . until the day a tollbooth appears in his bedroom and he deposits a ...Show more
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan
$21.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling. 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of The Ramayana. Everyone of whatever age, out ...Show more