A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Gi ...Show more
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: The Sisterhood
Celebrating International Women's Day with the original sisterhood Little Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in his lonely hut high in the Alps and she quickly learns to love her new life. But her strict aunt decides to send her away again to live in the town. Heidi cannot bear being away from the ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (The Sisterhood) by Jane Austen
23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: The Sisterhood
Celebrate International Women's Day with the original sisterhood When two rich young gentlemen move to town, they don't go unnoticed - especially when Mrs Bennett vows to have one of her five daughters marry into their fortunes. But love, as Jane and Elizabeth Bennett soon discover, is rarely straightfo ...Show more
Jane Eyre: Popular Penguins by Charlotte Brontë
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Charlotte Bronte (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.The literary heritage of the Bronte sisters entered the treasury of national English culture g ...Show more
Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition features an afterword by crime writing expert and award-winning writer Barry Forshaw. It ...Show more
Pollyanna (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Imogen Russell (AFT) Eleanor H.; Williams Porter
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter. Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook: a subconscious bias towards the positive is of ...Show more
The Skeleton's Holiday (Mini Modern Classics) by Leonora Carrington
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern
Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.'These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement are masterpieces of invention and grand-guignol humour.
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This c ...Show more
The Three Musketeers (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Alexandre Dumas
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
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 Call of the Wild & White Fang (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jack London
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home in California and forced to pull sleds in the Arctic wasteland. White Fang, by contrast, is the tale of a crossbreed who is three-quarters wolf and a quarter dog, and who must endure considerable suffering in the ...Show more
The Third Man and Other Stories by Graham Greene
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable - torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What's more, Harry is dead, and the circumstances look suspicious . . . Determined to uncover the ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Macmillan Collector's LIbrary) by H. G. Wells
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged ''fighting machines'' that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the r ...Show more