Nell
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Nell is born to a new century, her early life forged in the freedoms of the NZ high country. Her own freedom is tested: by family expectation, by husband Herb’s pride, by the rigours of family life on a Maniototo sheep station. Nell dares to step beyond the bounds; she revels and stumbles in love; enco ...Show more
Peter Pan (Signature Classics) by J. M. Barrie
$17.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this highly anticipated edition of Peter Pan.The Darling children's lives take an extraordinary turn when Peter Pan loses his shadow in their nursery. . .'Second to the right ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
The calamities that befall the hapless creatures of Aesop's Fables! The fox can't reach his grapes, then gets attacked by biting flies and loses his tail in a trap. And things don't go much better for the hare, who is chased relentlessly by a hound, barely escaping with his life-only to be beaten in a r ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass is a cherished collection of stories featuring the titular character, Alice, and her misadventures through the curious and fantastical lands of Wonderland. As little Alice goes deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole, she meets an assortmen ...Show more
Grimm's Fairy Tales by Grimm Brothers
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
For most children, reading the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm is an essential experience; but when these stories were first collected, fairy tales were considered entertainment for adults as well. This edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales brings together the best-known fairy and folk tales set down by the ...Show more
Hours in a Library Three Volume Set by Leslie Stephen
$75.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Complete in three volumes. Sir Leslie Stephen was an English author, critic and mountaineer, father to Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Stephen served as editor to several publications on mountaineering whilst also writing volumes of philosophical, historical and biographical importance. Ho ...Show more
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. Illustrations by H.R. Millar. A fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. When Dan and Una stage a performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in a fairy ring, they are astonished by the appearance o ...Show more
My Life and Hard Times and Other Observations by James Thurber
$21.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Contents: Introduction. My Life and Hard Times (complete) 1933. From The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying trapexe 1935. From let Your Mind Alone 1937. From Fables For Our Time 1940. From My World and Welcome To it 1942. From The Thurber Carnival 1945. From The Beast in Me and other Animals 194 ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
$55.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand.1978 first edition. Lino-cuts by Peter Pendry. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Written By Himself with a Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts and Other Evidence By the Editor. Set chiefly in strife-ridden 18th. century Scotland, this book tells the story of a young ...Show more
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
$47.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. First edition. Les Enfants Terribles is a 1929 novel by Jean Cocteau. It concerns two siblings, Elisabeth and Paul, who isolate themselves from the world as they grow up, an isolation which is shattered by the stresses of their adolescence. Translation by Rosamond Lehmann. Contains the com ...Show more
The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant
$28.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. Translated by William Gillis. Ship of Fools is a book of satire originally published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by Sebastian Brant, a conservative German theologian. In a prologue, 112 brief satires, and an epilogue, all illustrated with woodcuts, the book is notable for including the f ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$26.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the eerie tale of a devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville ancestral home after Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead–and the footprints of a giant hound are found near his body. With lino-cuts by Edward Bawden.