A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the founda ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.... These well-known and loved lines begin Dickens's most exciting novle, set during the bloodiest moments of the French Revolution. When former aristocrat Charles Darnay learns that an old family servant needs his help, he abandons his safe haven in E ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
$9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresp ...Show more
A Terrible Beauty Is Born by William Butler Yeats
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...' By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
"Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language... remarkable." --John Ezard, Guardian WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ERIC LOMAX Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When s ...Show more
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A Town Like Alice The Legacy by Nevil Shute Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to ...Show more
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quartet#1) by Madeleine L'Engle
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraf ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady tortoise - just as endearingly vivid a ...Show more
Aesop's Fables (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Aesop; Judith John (Contribution by)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
Comprised of over 300 classic animal tales, this edition of Aesop's Fables will capture any young reader's imagination. Aesop's Fables have long been remembered as farcical, but resonant tales, capturing the imaginations of adults and children alike. Aesop's Fables have been a cornerstone in narrating t ...Show more
Aesop's Fables (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Aesop
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the manger, the wolf in sheep's clothing and many others - have entered the languages and ...Show more
Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
"'How are you?' said Mathieu. 'I thought you were dead.'" Following a Parisian philosophy teacher through the caf s and bars of Montparnasse over two days in the sweltering summer of 1938, Sartre's searing novel explores what it truly means to be free.