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1984 by George Orwell
$46.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes by Kate Greenaway
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics
This charming volume brings back into print some of the finest illustrated children's books from the Arts and Crafts Movement: Kate Greenaway's much-loved alphabet book, A Apple Pie," " along with a selection of her illustrated nursery rhymes. Greenaway's drawings conjure up a never-never land of rural ...Show more
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
$0.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized. Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both ...Show more
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Everyman's Library | Reading Level: very good
Stevenson's gift as an author and poet for children lay partly in his lack of condescension towards them, and he preserved a large element of the child in his own personality. He wrote many of these poems whilst ill in bed, and the illustrations were first published shortly after his death.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
$42.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's library children's classics | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
Through the intervention of four ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas.
A Gentleman Of Leisure by P.G. Wodehouse
$33.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
When Jimmy Pitt bets an actor friend that any fool could burgle a house, offering to demonstrate the feat that very night, he puts his reputation on the line. He hires the services of a professional burglar, but his difficulties are increased when he has the misfortune to select police captain McEachern ...Show more
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's library children's classics | Reading Level: 2-12
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Adam Bede by George Eliot
$39.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
George Eliot's debut novel tells a story of love in rural eighteenth-century England. Adam Bede is an upstanding, hardworking, intelligent young man, the kind of person who knows what he wants--and what he wants is the incredibly shallow Hetty Sorrel. Though Hetty is a milkmaid, she harbors dreams of b ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
$43.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The eternally entertaining tales attributed to him
Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights by Robinson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's library children's classics | Reading Level: From 2 to 99
For the past two hundred years, Western readers, young and old alike, have been transported to the fabulous Orient by means of these remarkable stories, in which the everyday mingles on an equal footing with the uncanny and the miraculous. Accompanying the text are illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, wh ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland / Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
$43.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
The two Alice books--Lewis Carroll's masterpieces--are ranked by many as peers of the great adult works of English literature. And despite their riches of "untranslatable" puns, nonsense, and parody, they have been happily translated around the world. The matchless original illustrations by Tenniel shar ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
$39.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library 58 | Reading Level: good-very good
Anna Karenina is the story of a woman who ab andons her empty existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair with the passionate but emotionally ban krupt Vronsky. It is widely acknowledged as the greatest nov el in any language '