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A Guinea Pig Night Before Christmas by CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE
$22.99 NZD
Category: Previous Stock - Humour | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
The latest heart-warming book in the Guinea Pig Classics series.''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse' But sit down by the fire with some chocolates to hand, And you'll be welcomed into a magical land. There is snow and some moon ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
$12.99 NZD
$26.00 (50% off)
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
$22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knavewas published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and ...Show more
A Kindness Cup: Text Classics by Thea Astley
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"A writer of astonishing gifts." --Publishers Weekly "Smart, compassionate." --New York Times Text Classics presents four key works from Thea Astley, including two never previously released in the United States. Two decades after a massacre of local Aboriginal people, the former residents of a Queens ...Show more
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds - the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural ...Show more
A Little Learning: An Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius. Save for a few pale shadows, hi ...Show more
A Little Princess (Bath Treasury) by Frances Schoonmaker Bolin
$20.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Bath Classics Ser.
A Majestic Innings: Writings on Cricket by C.L.R. James
$29.99 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport | Series: Sports Classics
C. L. R. James is the author of what is universally agreed to be the best book ever written on cricket, Beyond a Boundary. James wrote about cricket throughout his life, and all his best articles, letters and occasional pieces are collected here, in the only other book he published on the game that defi ...Show more
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France - two days on foot through the snow.' Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately ...Show more
A Mother's Disgrace by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The frank and intimate journey of self-discovery by author, critic and arts commentator Robert Dessaix. Confronting, revealing and candid, the book traces his life from adoption towards the end of World War II, to a most unusual childhood on Sydney's North Shore, to his fascination with Russia and his t ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
$12.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, an old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husband is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: its scribe, the wife of an assistant mas ...Show more