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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
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
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
Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
29.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would me ...Show more
Upanishads by Roebuck, V J
29.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
An "Upanisad" is a teaching session with a guru, and the thirteen texts of the "Principal Upanisads"--which comprise this volume--form a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question the inner meaning of the world. Composed beginning around the eighth century BCE, the Upan ...Show more
War with the Newts by Karel Capek
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
I gave them my word that if they would bring me the pearl shells I would give them harpoons and knives in exchange, so that they could defend themselves, see? That's an honest deal, sir.'War with the Newts(1936) is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early twentieth-century Czech politics. Captain ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7.00 NZD
Category: Classics | 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
Wide Sargasso Sea (Clothbound Classic) by Jean Rhys
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light on ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Clothbound Classic) by Emily Brontë
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful and tactile cloth. In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere . . . As darkness falls, a man ca ...Show more