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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
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
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
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
His Last Bow And The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$19.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Includes stories of Sherlock Holmes: adventures involving an illustrious client and a Sussex vampire; the problems of Thor Bridge and of the Lions Mane; puzzles concerning a creeping man and the three-gabled house; and disappearances of secret plans and a lady of noble standing.
How to be Topp by Geoffrey Willans
$26.00 NZD
Category: Previous Stock - Humour | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
All skools make some sort at teaching the pupils things and the headmaster pin up a huge timetable of lessons etc. which make the heart sink when you look at it. Nigel Molesworth is back, this time taking the tinies in hand and showing that they can survive the first term - as long as you avoid the pref ...Show more
Jane Eyre - Penguin Red Classics by Charlotte Bronte (Author) , Michael Mason (Introduction by)
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Charlotte Bronte's first published novel, "Jane Eyre" was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847. Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. ...Show more
Lady a Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The most beautiful gifts may contain the most terrible poison. Robert Audley should be delighted that his uncle has found such a pretty young bride, even if her past is shrouded in mystery. But when his old friend Talboys, mourning the loss of his wife, is treated oddly by Lady Audley, then goes suddenl ...Show more
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
$19.95 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? . . . Or is he all of these?