The Jungle Book: Popular Penguins by Rudyard Kipling
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as Bagheera, the graceful black panther, and Shere Khan, the tiger with th ...Show more
The Language Instinct (Popular Penguin) by Steven Pinker
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
Steven Pinker's The Language Instinctpropelled him to worldwide fame in 1994. His groundbreaking book's premise - that language is instinctual rather than acquired - so shook the foundations of biological science that the reverberations are still being felt today.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
One of the greatest novels ever written, now in a wonderful new clothbound editionLaurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'h ...Show more
The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
$125.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition.At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. The ...Show more
The Long White Cloud Ao Tea Roa by William Pember Reeves
$19.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
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The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
$400.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Aubrey-Maturin Ser.
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets. Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command -- until hi ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Clothbound Classic) by Thomas Hardy; Keith Wilson (Editor); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
At a country fair near Casterbridge in the fictional county of Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober the n ...Show more
The Mind of God: Popular Penguins by Paul Davies
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Paul Davies' The Mind of God is a scientific search for the meaning of the universe. Ranging across the cosmos, Davies explores the origin of the universe, the laws of nature, mathematics, the beginning and end of everything. Ultimately, he seeks to provide a glimpse the meaning of it all. This is a boo ...Show more
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A beautiful hardback edition of a magical and special novel - enter the fantastical world of the Night Circus. The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon an iron gates reads: ...Show more
The Novels and Tales of The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P. by Benjamin Disraeli
$65.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Noble Prize for Literature. Here, is a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...Show more