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Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)
$38.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t ...Show more
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by Charles Robinson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
"Doctor Foster went to Glo'ster, In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle right up to his middle, And never went there again." A bumper crop of nursery rhymes for the delight of the very young. In his Introduction, Jerrold explains how his selection was based on earlier collections made by John Newbe ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
$34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
In Nineteen eighty-four, one of the 20th century's great myth-makers takes a cold look at the future. Orwell's study of individual struggling - or not struggling - against totalitarianism remains a salutary lesson in any society.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$69.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Probably Garcma Marquez's finest and most famous work. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendma family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettable men and women, and with a trut ...Show more
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success of Lolit ...Show more
Persuasion (Everyman's Library Hardback Edition) by Jane Austen
$50.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Of all Jane Austen's great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance. Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish, spendthrift Sir Walter Elliot, is a woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen, she fell in love with-and was ...Show more
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
$36.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Peter Pan and Tinkerbell lead the three Darling children over the rooftops of London and away to Neverland - the island where the lost boys play. Magic and mischief is in the air but if villainous Captain Hook has his way, before long someone will be swimming with the crocodiles . . .This special Puffin ...Show more
Prague Stories by Richard Bassett (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends, and scenes from the city's past and present, from ...Show more
Ride-a-Cock Horse and Other Rhymes and Stories by Oliver Goldsmith
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's library children's classics | Reading Level: 2+
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm possessing only a knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe-and the will to survive. His is the saga of a man alone: a m ...Show more
Shaken & Stirred: Intoxicating Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell (Ed)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis; Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle li ...Show more
Sherlock Holmes by CONAN DOYLE ARTHUR
$29.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
'Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science"For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with late Victorian and Edwardian society, yet curiously timeless in their appeal. The characters of Sherloc ...Show more