The Talented Mr Ripley (Netflix TVTI) by Patricia Highsmith
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics
This sleek and modern Netflix tie-in edition marks the return of Highsmith's classic story to our screens, cementing The Talented Mr Ripley's iconic position as a tale that has triggered delight and disgust in readers and viewers alike for decades, and will continue to do so for decades to come. * Tom R ...Show more
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not -- strong, beautifu ...Show more
A Haunting in Venice by Agatha Christie
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Poirot | Reading Level: near fine
The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice - soon to be a major motion picture. A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples... At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours he ...Show more
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Timeless Classics) by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
55.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Featuring 211 classic tales from the Brothers Grimm, including favorites such as "Hansel and Gretel," "Cinderella," "The Frog Prince," "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin," The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales is accompanied by 40 color plates and 60 black-and-white illustrations from award-winni ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Book Club Edition Ser.
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has neglected his livestock for too long. In a burst of insurgent fervour they rise up and he is deposed, with the pigs taking charge of the newly named Animal Farm. Everything runs smoothly, productivi ...Show more
Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs: 'literary comfort and joy' (Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss) for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons.
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
16.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Poirot Ser.
A facsimile first edition hardback of the 1926 Poirot book, published to mark the 80th anniversary of its publication, the very first Agatha Christie published by Collins. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone h ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Dickens' supremely timeless work on ambition and self-improvement. 'I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.' Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover Annotated Edition by D. H. Lawrence
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth century. Lawrence's determination to explore every aspect - sexual, social, psycholo ...Show more
Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The GuardianA fictional autobiography of Maigret, Georges Simenon's brilliant detective In this make- ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Madame Bovary is the debut Novel of French writer: Gustave Flaubert. published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.