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Animal Farm (Alma Classics) by George Orwell
$16.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt, and led by two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, they overthrow Mr Jones and drive him away from the farm. In the subsequent struggle for power, it is Napoleon tha ...Show more
Frankenstein (Alma Classics) by Mary Shelley
$14.99 NZD
$16.99 (11% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost ...Show more
Moby Dick: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Herman Melville
$13.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets. W ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Dafoe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Years a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her brother) Twelve Years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virgini ...Show more
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Evergreens Ser.
When Darwin set sail at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that all life forms, both present and extinct, were more strongly related than the Christian version of the world's creation purported them to be. During his five-year voyage of research and discovery on board HMS Beagle, and later ...Show more
Tender is the Night by Scott F. Fitzgerald
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, the glimpses of their troubled p ...Show more
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations and distractions of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
$13.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Evergreens 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.In The Canterbury TalesChaucer created one of the great to ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868-9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of th ...Show more
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, ...Show more
The Master and Margarita (Alma Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov; Hugh Aplin (Translator)
$12.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But ...Show more
The Prophet: Annotated Edition with illustrations by Kahlil Gibran
$17.00 NZD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Evergreens Ser.
"Work is love made visible." - Khalil Gibran Filled with wisdom, written in simple, poetic language, The Prophet is a book for all ages, which remains amazingly relevant to our times. After living in the city of Orphalese for 12 years, a prophet is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He i ...Show more