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The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales - now for the first time in English. With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen - becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and moun ...Show more
The Withered Arm : Little Black Classic by Thomas Hardy
3.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'She bared her poor curst arm'. A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers ...Show more
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum; Carly Gledhill (Illustrator)
17.00 NZD
Category: Board Books | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
When a storm rages through the Kansas countryside, little Dorothy finds that she and her farmhouse have been swallowed up by a tornado and spirited off to the magical Land of Oz. But when she finds that her house has fallen on the Wicked Witch of the East, all Dorothy wants is to go back to Kansas. To r ...Show more
The World is Full of Foolish Men : Little Black Classic by Jean De La Fontaine
3.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'The pleasure is twice as sweetWhen you cheat a cheat.' An illustrated collection of fables from one of France's most vital writers. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics ...Show more
The Yellow Book : Little Black Classic by Anon
7.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
' "She's an adventuress. Yes, an adventuress, but an end-of-the-century one. She doesn't travel for profit, but for pleasure." ' Offering an entertaining introduction to the fin-de-siecle, this selection from the notorious magazine The Yellow Book includes stories and poems by famous writers such as Arn ...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
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
30.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable ...Show more
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
30.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with ...Show more
To Be Read At Dusk : Little Black Classic by Charles Dickens
3.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 86 | Reading Level: very good
'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.' Three ghostly tales from a master of the form, 'The Signalman', 'The Trial for Murder' and the title story, 'To Be Read at Dusk'. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little ...Show more
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
John Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, and perhaps his funniest novel, Tortilla Flat includes a critical introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics. Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before ...Show more
Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Little Black Classic by John Gay
3.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
O! may thy Virtue guard thee through the RoadsOf Drury's mazy Courts, and dark Abodes,The Harlots guileful Paths, who nightly stand,Where Katherine-street descends into the Strand.
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
24.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankn ...Show more