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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's savagely funny, satirical masterpiece, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble ...Show more
A Conspiracy of Ravens: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds by Bodleian Library Staff
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A charm of goldfinches. An ostentation of peacocks. A murder of crows. The English language brims with witty words for flocks of birds Thought to have originated from hunting manuals, the practice of inventing collective nouns for birds has since evolved into a sport all its own, with new words striving ...Show more
A Dance to the Music of Time 1-9 by Anthony Powell
$85.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A Farewell to Arms (Vintage Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
$26.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Handful of Dust (Popular Penguin) by Evelyn Waugh
$14.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dustis a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's Gothic pile to conduct an affair with shallow socialite John Beaver of the Belgravia set. A Handful of Dustremains one of the fi ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Black Classics) by CHARLES DICKENS
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. This "Penguin Classics" edition of is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of ti ...Show more
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Popular Penguin) by Mark Twain
$14.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
By witnessing a murder, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn find themselves in a series of adventures that lead them to some frightening situations.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: AND Through the Looking Glass (Clothbound Classic) by Lewis Carroll; Hugh Haughton (Introduction by, Notes by); John Tenniel (Illustrator); Coralie Bickford-smith (Illustrator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Alice, a girl of seven years, is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on the riverbank with her elder sister. She then notices a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch run past. She follows it down a rabbit hole when suddenly she falls a long way to a curi ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Popular Penguin) by Lewis Carroll
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author: Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies) ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's timeless satire 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon ...Show more
Animal Farm (Penguin English Library) by George Orwell
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's timeless satire'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.'Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon an ...Show more
Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel (PB) by George Orwell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
The first ever graphic novel version of Animal Farm - a Times Book of the Year Animal Farm is the story of what happens when the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, and how their revolution goes horribly wrong. Now George Orwell's dark, timeless fable has been turned into a graphic ...Show more