To the Lighthouse: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"To the Lighthouse" is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel and is widely acknowledged as being among the greatest literary achievements of this century. It is also the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island where the Ramsay family as well as various guests enjoy the long summer in each ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
When young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map among a captain's belongings, the scene is set for an adventure to discover Treasure Island. With 80 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of pirates, treasure and swashbuckling action on the high seas is the archetypal ripping ...Show more
Treasure Island: Popular Penguins by Robert Louis Stevenson
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Islandhas also had great appeal for adult readers and was admired by Mark Twain, Rudyar ...Show more
Ulysses (Clothbound Classic) by James Joyce
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Set in Dublin, Ulysses tells the story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin (16 June 1904). The title of the work references the fact that James Joyce draws heavily on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey, in the work, creating parallels between Bloom and Ulysses (Odysseus), Molly Bloom and Penelope (U ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin - A Tale of Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
$45.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Cloth Bound Pocket Ser.
A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature's best-loved characters, Becky Sharp. Ruthless social climber and irrepressible anti-hero Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her position in Society, from impoverished orphan to woman of means. Clever, lively and resourceful, Becky is the t ...Show more
Vanity Fair (Clothbound Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
$48.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Simon JamesIn the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their p ...Show more
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their hedonistic whims and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
In time for the 200th anniversary of her birth, a Penguin Hardcover Classics edition of the book many believe to be Charlotte Bront''s crowning achievement With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. ...Show more