The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
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, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.This collection includes many of the famous cases - and g ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Pride and PrejudiceBy Jane AustenElizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: ...Show more
Peter Pan (Macmillan Collector's Library) by J. M. Barrie; Francis Donkin Bedford (Illustrator)
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Presented in a beautiful slip-case edition that contains new, full-color illustrations for readers aged 8 and up, J. M. Barrie's best-loved tale of Lost Boys, mermaids, pirates, and a boy who will never grow up will enchant even the oldest child at heart. Wendy knows that all children have to grow u ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Persuasionby Jane AustenAnne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her rest ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Broadly comedic and brilliantly postmodern in its lampooning of a genre, the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Morland, a naive young woman whose perceptions of the world around her are greatly influenced by the romantic gothic novels to which she is addicted. When she mo ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own he ...Show more
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The little prince is a poetic tale that comes accompanied by illustrations made with watercolors by Saint-Exupéry himself. In it, a pilot is lost in the Sahara desert after his plane suffered a breakdown, but to his surprise, it is there that he meets a little prince from another planet. History has a p ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
The Art of War: Popular Penguins by Sun Tzu
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also rel ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins) by Katherine Mansfield
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emo ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very spec ...Show more