A Study in Scarlet and the Sign of the Four (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world's best-loved legends began. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house. In The Sign of the Four the detective ...Show more
Heart of Darkness & other stories: & other stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Joseph Conrad
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...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
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
Jennie [Essential Modern Classics] by Paul Gallico
19.00 NZD
Category: Classics
If in doubt, wash! What is it like to be a cat? Peter Brown longs for a pet cat. One day, he is following a stray cat through the streets when he is knocked down and seriously hurt. On waking, he is astonished to find that he has turned into a cat The world is a dangerous place for him, but luckily he i ...Show more
Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.The second world war classic of life under Nazi occupation. Nemirovsky was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. In 1941, Ir ne sat down to write a book that would ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In one of his most energetic and enjoyable novels, Dickens tells the life story of David Copperfield, from his birth in Suffolk, through the various struggles of his childhood, to his successful career as a novelist. The early scenes are particularly masterful, depicting the world as seen from the persp ...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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Supernatural hounds, a family curse, a mysterious cipher and the return of a deadly enemy ...Sherlock Holmes will have to utilize every skill he has to solve the two classic mysteries collected here. The Hound of the Baskervilles sees Holmes and Dr Watson travel to the misty wilds of Dartmoor to confron ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Brontë
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The orphaned Jane Eyre is no beauty but her plain appearance belies an indomitable spirit, sharp wit and great courage. As a child she suffers under cruel guardians, harsh schooling and a rigid social order but when she goes to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for the mysterious Mr Rochester, the ...Show more
Agnes Grey (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anne Bronte
15.00 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.When Agnes Grey's family falls on hard times she insists on being allowed to find work as a governess, ...Show more
The Ghost Road: Popular Penguins by Pat Barker
13.99 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Set in the closing months of World War I, this towering novel combines poetic intenstiy with gritty realism as it brings Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy to its stunning conclusion. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist Wi ...Show more