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The Teachings of a Stoic: Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion (Collins Classics) by Epictetus
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.The discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus are regarded as some of the most influential teachings of the ancient world. Born into slavery and sent into exile before setting up a school of philosophy, Ep ...Show more
The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
$19.99 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international conseq ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
$27.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the Kings Muske ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
$24.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants o ...Show more
The Trials of Rumpole by John Mortimer
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from Pommeroy's wine bar, is back for further misadventures. Amid an unfortunate and temporary downturn in L ...Show more
The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Leaving her orphanage at sixteen, Sukey Bond finds employment as a servant in the remote New Easter Farm, deep within the Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with simple, gentle Eric, the son of the rector's wife. But when their relationship is discovered, they are swiftly separated. So begins Sukey' ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
$25.00 NZD
$31.77 (21% off)
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Legend Classics Ser.
Soon to be adapted into the Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor Recently adapted into the major motion picture The Turning starring Finn Wolfhard Recently adapted into an opera in London's West EndNo, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it ...Show more
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women's history.' In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to wr ...Show more
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. That girl didn't want to die. She just wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that dec ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
$39.99 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
When the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and heads up into the open air, he embarks on a series of exhilarating adventures with his new friends: the laid-back Ratty, the gruff yet kindly Badger and the self-satisfied, irrepressible Mr. Toad. With 70 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. 'Believe me, ...Show more
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwo classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had aresumed his position as an indep ...Show more
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz HB (Illus. by Robert Ingpen) by L. Frank Baum & Robert Ingpen (illustrator)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
On her journey to the Emerald City to seek out the mysterious Wizard and find a way back home, Dorothy encounters many endearing characters of whom the triumvirate of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion prove lasting comrades. With 70 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. The tale of ...Show more