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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
$12.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published illustrations by the author, and an introducti ...Show more
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The legendary rumors of an 'opera ghost' take on a terrifying reality when the beautiful young singer Christine Daae suddenly disappears after her triumphant performance. An ever increasing pattern of fear and violence pervades the dim backstage areas of the Opera House, as the phantom threatens to stri ...Show more
Pocket Dalai Lama by Mary Craig
$18.98 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Shambhala Pocket Classics Ser.
This collection of wisdom on a wide range of topics is a pocket-sized inspirational companion for anyone--and the perfect short introduction to the Dalai Lama for the beginner. It includes short gems from many of his teachings made popular in such books as The Art of Happiness and Ethics for the New Mi ...Show more
Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh by Thich Nhat Hanh
$16.99 NZD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Pocket Classic
This is a collection of powerful and inspiring teachings in an appealing, convenient pocket-size book from one of today's most important and beloved spiritual teachers, the Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Next to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh is the best-known Buddhist teacher in the w ...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
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
She by H.Rider Haggard
$19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father's quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his compa ...Show more
Tarzan Of The Apes: Pocket Penguin Classics by Edgar Rice Burroughs
$38.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Abandoned to his fate when his English parents die in the African jungle, a baby boy is rescued and reared by a loving ape foster mother. Conquering the savage laws of the wilderness, Tarzan grows into a mighty warrior and becomes leader of his tribe of apes until he encounters, for the first time, his ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
$19.95 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in Penguin Classics. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship wi ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
$19.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Wild Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure and freedom. But Huck finds himself wrestling with his conscience. Should he save Jim, or ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$26.00 NZD
Category: Mystery | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of inequity...The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures reveal the brilliant consulting detective at the ...Show more
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A haunted castle and a ruined bloodline Manfred, wicked lord of Otranto Castle, is horrified when his son is crushed to death on his wedding day. But rather than witness the end of his line, as foretold in a curse, he resolves to send his own wife to a convent and marry the intended bride himself. Howev ...Show more