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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
$39.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library 174 | Reading Level: near fine
In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist a ...Show more
IF THIS IS A MAN AND THE TRUCE by Primo Levi
$39.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war through Russia and Central Europe. Levi never ra ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her p ...Show more
Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben
$35.00 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? Squirrels that adopt their grandchildren? We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? More and more researchers are real ...Show more
Jack the Giant Killer by Richard Doyle
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
The story of Jack, the intrepid boy whose courage and ingenuity defeated a host of many-headed giants, has been told to children for hundreds of years. In 1842, when he was just 18, Richard Doyle, whose natural talent for draftsmanship was matched by imaginative invention and a passion for legend and th ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library classics
Jane Eyre (1847) has enjoyed huge popularity since first publication, and its success owes much to its exceptional emotional power. Jane Eyre, a penniless orphan, is engaged as governess at Thornfield Hall by the mysterious Mr Rochester. Her integrity and independence are tested to the limit as their lo ...Show more
Jeeves in the Offing by P.G. Wodehouse
$36.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
_______________________________A Jeeves and Wooster novelJeeves is on holiday in Herne Bay, and while he's away the world caves in on Bertie Wooster. For a start, he's astonished to read in The Times of his engagement to the mercurial Bobbie Wickham. Then at Brinkley Court, his Aunt Dahlia's establishme ...Show more
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P G Wodehouse
$33.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library | Reading Level: near fine
When Bertie Wooster goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court and unexpectedly becomes engaged to the imperious Lady Florence Craye, disaster threatens from all sides. While Florence tries to cultivate Bertie's mind, her former fiance, hefty ex-policeman Stilton Cheesewright, threatens to bea ...Show more
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
$35.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Just how did all the animals come to have each of their special characteristics? How was the alphabet created?Have you ever wondered how the Leopard got his spots, how the Rhinosaurus got his skin, or how the Alphabet was made? This witty and wonderful collection embarks upon a fanciful voyage to uneart ...Show more
Kid Brady / A Man of Means by Everyman
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
This volume reprints two of Wodehouse's earliest books which take the form of story sequences linked by a central character, a technique he used many times thereafter. Delightful in themselves, they are interesting chiefly as windows on a great writer's early evolution.In The Man of Means, he looks forw ...Show more
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Puffin Pixels is a new collection of classics featuring pixelated, 8-bit cover artwork. For older readers nostalgic for video and computer games of the past, to kids looking for something a bit edgier on their bookshelf, Puffin Pixels will add a sophisticated, yet fresh, flair to the canon. Including ta ...Show more
Kipling: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Rudyard Kipling
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children's literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and ...Show more