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A Parisian Affair (Penguin pocket classics) by Guy de Maupassant
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Classics
'Nowhere could she discover the dens of iniquity about which she had dreamed...' Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly h ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is w ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Considered by many to the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805, in the crowded and gossip-filled rooms of a St Petersburg party, and follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as ...Show more
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