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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, hands ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$21.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Some blame the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville on the legend of a fearsome and ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his Devonshire family for generations. So when the services of famed detective Sherlock Holmes are engaged to ensure the safety of Baskerville heir Sir Henry - recently ...Show more
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
$19.95 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at the Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has ma ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
$19.95 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
$19.95 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'.In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat he immediately begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the cha ...Show more
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Lust, sorcery and torture - the secrets of a Spanish monastery. Ambrosio, a pious monk, finds himself drawn to his pupil, Matilda, a young woman in disguise. Unable to control himself, he sates his lust, and soon tires of her. But Matilda has more than her body to offer: using black magic, she will help ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin Blake brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again. No one is above suspicion, as the idiosyncratic Sergeant ...Show more
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics) by Ann Radcliffe
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
'Emily's face was stained with blood'. Beautiful young heiress Emily St. Aubert is frightened when she finds herself orphaned and in the hands of her cold and distant aunt, Madame Cheron. But her fear turns to terror when Madame Cheron agrees to marry the haughty and brooding Signor Montoni, and she fin ...Show more
The Pocket Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Classics
Emily Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the greatest of American poets. The aphoristic style and wit of much of her verse, its irregular rhymes, directness of expression, and startling imagery, have had a profound effect on twentieth-century literature. Over a hundred of Dickinson's best poems ...Show more
The Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Claire Tomalin (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet.
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
$19.95 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Rudolph Rassendyll's life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania whilst travelling through the town of Zenda. He is shortly on the way to Streslau, the capital, where he finds himself engaged in plans to rescue the imprisoned king.