Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it." Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer. In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an assignment from his publisher - to write a book about unemployment and social conditions in the ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others' When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, maste ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. As a young man struggling to find his voice as a writer, George Orwell left the comfort of home to live in the impoverished working districts of Paris and London. He would document both the chaos and boredom of de ...Show more
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania. Winston knows what a good citizen of Oceania must do: show his devotion for Big Brother and the Party ...Show more
Man Alone: VUP Classic by John Mulgan
30.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Man Alone is one of the foundation stones of New Zealand literature. Almost all copies of the first edition, published in England in 1939, were destroyed in the Blitz. When it was republished in New Zealand in 1949, after the author’s suicide in Cairo in 1945, the publisher Paul’s Book Arcade made a num ...Show more
Grimm Tales : For Young And Old by Philip Pullman
48.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A phenomenal bestselling author meets the most magical stories ever told, now in a beautiful clothbound classics edition In this stunningly designed book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'cle ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A timeless classic which is often considered a masterpiece in its genre , the novel is written in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-lear ...Show more
New Hampshire by Frost, Robert
10.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Love & Friendship by Austen, Jane
10.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Jane Austen is remembered for her six masterpieces of the Regency era: from the heroines of Elizabeth Bennett and Emma Woodhouse, to the villains of Mrs. Norris and John Willoughby. But these characters were not b ...Show more
Men Like Gods by H G Wells
10.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Welcome to Utopia. When Mr. Barnstaple, an Earthling, is accidentally transported to Utopia with a group of others, he begins an adventure that will change how he views the world forever. Utopia has no governmen ...Show more
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
'Spookily topical' Guardian Read the world's first political thriller. London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such te ...Show more