The Talented Mr Ripley (HB) by Patricia Highsmith
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful. A beautiful, hardback edition of the iconic crime classic, now a MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES. Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it. Struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors, and the law, Ripley leap ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Anne Bronte is the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son. By challenging the prevailing morals of the time the novel caused a critic to pronounce it ''utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls' ...Show more
The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Secondhand. Set in the lower reaches of the Civil Service, The Three Clerks draws on Trollope’s own experiences as a junior clerk in the General Post Office, and has been called the most autobiographical of Trollope’s novels. In 1883 Trollope gave it as his opinion that The Three Clerks was a better no ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka; Idris Parry (Translator, Introduction by)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
On the day after his thirtieth birthday, Josef K, a bank teller, is arrested by two mysterious agents of an unspecified organization. Confused and shocked, Josef inquires about the crime he is being accused of, but the agents will not answer, leaving Josef to decide what he feels most guilty for. Though ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary' Rediscover Kafka's classic work of psychological horror. The Trial is the terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge abo ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James
$48.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in danger - and if so, from whom? The novella is accompanied here by several more of the ve ...Show more
The Unbearable Bassington by Saki
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Secondhand. The novella The Unbearable Bassington follows the travails of Comus Bassington, a playboy and ne'er-do-well who is ultimately sent away to the British Colonies by his long-suffering family.
The War of the Worlds (Clothbound Classic) by H.G. Wells
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth . ...Show more
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Secondhand. The Warden, published in 1855, is the first book in Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels. It was his fourth novel. The book centres on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of ...Show more
The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's books ever published. Written by an Anglican clergyman with an insatiable love of science, the story combines an uplifting moral about redemption with a crash course in evolutionary theory, and has an imaginative exuberance equ ...Show more
The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
$18.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Adventure Library
It's been called the greatest geographical secret since the discovery of America: the source of the Nile. For centuries, adventurers and explorers have searched in vain for this mysterious place. Now, Alan Moorehead journeys back in time to follow these people in their quest for the origin of the mighty ...Show more