The Outsider by Albert Camus
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a rand ...Show more
The Painted Veil (Vintage Deco) by W. Somerset Maugham, W Somerset Maugham
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference';;Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an ...Show more
The Pearl: Popular Penguins by John Steinbeck
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world', he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and violence the pearl arouses in him and ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Pirates by Katherine Howe (Editor)
$36.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the ...Show more
The Pickwick Papers (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Charles Dickens; Judith John (Contribution by)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
In The Pickwick Papers.[6] The novel's main character, Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. To extend his researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of life, he suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" (Mr N ...Show more
The Pit and the Pendulum: Popular Penguins by Edgar Allan Poe
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic horror tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems. Here, Poe writes of the torments of ingenious, malevolent persecutors and of a mind's own sickening madness. The Pit and the Pendulum is a collection of works from ...Show more
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essays by Albert Camus
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
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The Plums of P. G. Wodehouse by P. G. Wodehouse
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Second printing 1998. Illustrations by Paul Cox. A selection of ‘plums’ chosen by Joe Whitlock Blundell from the writings of P. G. Wodehouse. Features entire stories such as A Crime Wave at Blandings and Uncle Fred Flits By and seven other, plus a selection of short excepts and quotes from ...Show more
The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Secondhand. Illustrated by Llewellyn Thomas Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it - is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. An exotic impostor, seemingly from nowhere, Lopez has society ...Show more
The Prophet by KAHLIL GIBRAN
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Prophet, a masterwork by Kahlil Gibran, is one of our time's most treasured classics. It was first published in 1923 and has since been translated into over twenty languages, with over nine million copies sold in the United States alone.The Prophet is a compilation of philosophical, spiritual, and, ...Show more