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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
17.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' Described by Dickens as 'the best story I have written', "A Tale of Two Cities" interweaves thrilling historical dr ...Show more
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
17.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil'. Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark ps ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window'. A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, "Dracula" also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he m ...Show more
Dubliners by JOYCE JAMES
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners" by James Joyce. 'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears...But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute'. Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Bold ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'. A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveya ...Show more
Great Expectations (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. "What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs are?" "I can't guess what it is, ma'am." "It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" "Great Expectations", Dickens' ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself' Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power. Its story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent woman ...Show more
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The novel was first published in 1862 in serial form. This production read by Juliet Stevenson marks the first audio release of one of Victorian England's most sensational reads. Dealing with bigamy, murder and madness it begs the question: can women and men ever really depend on one another, even withi ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerl ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none'. Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, "Oliver Twist" features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous g ...Show more