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The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
$17.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'In 1973 (Matthiessen) joined with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen i ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
$26.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the Kings Muske ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
$39.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adults | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
When the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and heads up into the open air, he embarks on a series of exhilarating adventures with his new friends: the laid-back Ratty, the gruff yet kindly Badger and the self-satisfied, irrepressible Mr. Toad. With 70 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. 'Believe me, ...Show more
Treasure Island (Puffin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children, Teenage | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map that will lead him to the fabled Treasure Island. But a host of villains, wild beasts and deadly savages stand between him and the stash of gold. Not to me ...Show more
Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: VUP Classics Ser.
A tale of love, wine and angels, The Vintner's Luck was published in 1999 around the world in numerous editions and languages. It won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, where it also received the Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards, was longlisted for the ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$9.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...Show more
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
$40.00 NZD
Category: Personal Development | Series: Rider Classics Ser.
A beautiful collectable gift edition celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the ultimate cult feminist classic Within every woman, there lies a powerful force of energy, creativity and self-knowing: their wild woman. For centuries, she has been repressed by a male-orientated value system that trivialise ...Show more