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A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$19.95 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a ric ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
$19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, ...Show more
Art of Peace - Pocket Edition by Morihei Ueshiba
$18.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Shambhala Pocket Classics
New York Times BestsellerThese inspirational teachings show that the real way of the warrior is based on compassion, wisdom, fearlessness, and love of nature. Drawn from the talks and writings of Morihei Ueshiba, founder of the popular Japanese martial art known as Aikido, The Art of Peace, presented he ...Show more
Back in the Jug Agane by Geoffrey Willans
$25.00 NZD
Category: Previous Stock - Humour | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
I need hardly tell you the esential thing about a football i.e. nobody need tell me to get rid of it. I do not want it in the first place. Wot is the use of having a soaking wet piece of leather pushed at you? Give me a hadock every time, at least you can eat it. Poor Nigel Molesworth is back at St Cust ...Show more
Bedtime Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire. From the surreal night visions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman B ...Show more
Christmas Stories by Ed. Diana Tesdell
$39.00 NZD
Category: Christmas Books | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Now joining Everyman's Library--the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure. "Christmas Stories" is a treasury of shor ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
$19.95 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
This is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of cha ...Show more
Enriched Classics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
$9.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Enriched Classics (Pocket)
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Mark Twain's classic adventure story of life on the Mississippi. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: - A concise introduction that gives readers important background information - A chronology of the author's life and work - A timeline of sig ...Show more
Erotic Stories by Everyman
$29.99 NZD
Category: Erotica | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
A perfect gift of timeless erotic stories ranging from ancient Greek myth to modern stories of longing and lust. This beautifully jacketed Everyman's Library Pocket Classics hardcover anthology has a full-cloth binding and silk ribbon marker. Accounts of ardour and transgression also flow from unexpecte ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
$19.95 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in con ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meets the icy beaut ...Show more
Hagakure: Book of the Samurai - Pocket by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
$16.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Pocket Classic
The Book of the Samurai. 'Hagakure' is a treatise on the samurai code written by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, an 18th-century samurai. It's a guide, organized as a loose collection of thoughts, on how samurai should conduct themselves. This philosophy - bushido, or 'the way of the samurai' - is, according to Tsu ...Show more