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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
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
$9.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Enriched Classics (Pocket)
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The adventures of David Balfour, a young orphan, as he journeys through the dangerous Scottish Highlands in an attempt to regain his rightful inheritance. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives the reader imp ...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?
Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$19.95 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A land before time - a journey beyond belief...Unlucky in love, but desperate to prove himself in an adventure, journalist Ed Malone is sent to test the infamous and hot-tempered Professor Challenger on his bizarre South American expedition findings - not least his sketches of a strange plateau and the ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
$19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Mary Barton is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow workers, but Mary wants to make a better life for them both. She rashly decides to reject her lover Jem, a struggling engineer, in the hope of marrying the rich mill-owner's son Henry Carson and securing a sa ...Show more
Mozart's Journey to Prague by Eduard Morike
$19.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Making Mozart's way to Prague for the opening of Don Giovanni, the great composer, playfully tries to steal an orange from a Bohemian family's garden. But no sooner has he taken the fruit than he is caught by a furious gardener. Desperate to escape, Mozart frantically scrawls an apologetic note to the o ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Margaret's safe existence is turned upside down when she has to move to the grim northern town of Milton. Not only does she have her eyes opened by the poverty and hardship she encounters there, but she is thrown into confusion by stern factory owner John Thornton - whose treatment of his workers brings ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
$19.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens' tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch- ...Show more