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The Prophet: The Complete Original Edition: Essential Pocket Classics (PB) by Kahlil Gibran
$17.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Essential Pocket Classics Ser.
A new edition of the beloved spiritual classicKahlil Gibran's The Prophet is a timeless classic, a guiding light of spiritual fiction that has shaped the hearts and souls of readers since it was first published in 1923. Translated into more than 40 languages around the globe, The Prophet is an inspirati ...Show more
The Return Of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$24.99 NZD
Category: Mystery | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach falls. When Dr Watson meets a mysterious deformed man, the truth is revealed.
The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
$19.95 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The second novel in the "Tarzan" series opens with the aristocratic ape man aboard an ocean liner en route from New York to Europe, on which he has encounters with Russian spies, French counts, and beautiful women. Tarzan had renounced his right to the woman he loved, and civilization held no pleasure f ...Show more
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
$19.95 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Childers' lone masterpiece, "The Riddle of the Sands", considered the first modern spy thriller, is recognisable as the brilliant forerunner of the realism of Graham Greene and John le Carre. Its unique flavour comes from its fine characterization, richly authentic background of inshore sailing and vivi ...Show more
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
$19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Some journeys are best left unmade... Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents ...Show more
The Sign Of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$17.98 NZD
Category: Mystery | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman.
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
$19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
When Werther dances with the beautiful Lotte. It is a joy, however, that can only ever be short-lived. Engaged to another man, she tolerates his adoration and encourages his friendship but can never return his love. When he receives a letter telling him that she is married, his passion turns to destruct ...Show more
The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international conseq ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
$19.95 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants o ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
$19.95 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag ? only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop'. Gentle art teacher Walter Hartright has fallen in love with his student, Laura. But she is marrying the wicked Sir Percival, who wants to destroy her reputation and steal her fortune. In the face of his powerful friends, only Laura's ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is w ...Show more