Justine by Lawrence Durrell
23.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances: a seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt, introduced by André Aciman (Call Me By Your Name and Find Me) Walking slowly home through the dark avenue of trees, tasting the brackish harbour wind, I remembered Justine saying harsh ...Show more
Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
29.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical and manipulative Mary Amberley. Realising that his determined detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cow ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
18.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library
Uncle Tom's CabinBy Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bleak House (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"It would have been far better if you had never been born." Esther, at 14, has never known love. Determined to live well, earn some love, and overcome the shadow of her birth, she takes her first steps into an unknown world. A family curse, a manipulating lawyer, poverty, and secrets threaten to destroy ...Show more
The Prince and the Pauper (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Mark Twain
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Tom Canty, youngest son of a poor family living in Offal Court, London, has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest. Loitering around the palace gates one day, he sees a prince (the Prince of Wales - Edward VI). Coming too close in his intense excitement, Tom is nearly caught and ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love: Popular Penguins by Anais Nin
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A Spy in the House of Love, whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions, echoes Anais Nin's personal struggle with sex, love, and emotional fragmentation.
Dangerous Liaisons: Popular Penguins by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Depicting decadence and moral corruption in pre-revolutionary France, Dangerous Liaisons is one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Two aristocrats embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Mar ...Show more
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
30.00 NZD
Category: Classics
This quiet, imaginative novel is a study of faith in an increasingly hostile world. Through intimate journal entries, the author reveals the private life and struggles of a young, withdrawn, devout and sickly priest in northern France. Though his beliefs are sincere and profound, his enthusiasm quickly ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Classics Ser.
Features Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four 'little women' enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England.
Farewell My Lovely: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler This is one of Chandler's most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thi ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
In this haunting, magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and the Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetr ...Show more
Masks by Fumiko Enchi
24.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Masks (1958) takes its name from the Noh masks of Japanese dramas, and much is made of spirit possession. This is a curiously elegant and scandalous tale of sexual deception and revenge. Ibuki loves widow Yasuko who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence as well as beauty. His friend, Mikame ...Show more