The Best of Lupin: Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc
37.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Ars ne Lupin is a gentleman and a thief, a world-famous master of disguise and a planner of elaborate heists. His exploits are regularly splashed across newspaper pages, entertaining all of France as Inspector Ganimard of the Paris Police fruitlessly pursues him. Lupin often turns detective himself when ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet and the Sign of the Four (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world's best-loved legends began. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house. In The Sign of the Four the detective ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Brontë
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The orphaned Jane Eyre is no beauty but her plain appearance belies an indomitable spirit, sharp wit and great courage. As a child she suffers under cruel guardians, harsh schooling and a rigid social order but when she goes to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for the mysterious Mr Rochester, the ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Emily Bronte, Emily Brontë
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealth ...Show more
Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful - she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both."' This collection of much-loved folk tales feat ...Show more
Best Fairy Tales (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Hans Christian Andersen
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Just So Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP PULLMANHave you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots? Or how the camel got his hump? Rudyard Kipling?s witty and beautifully written stories explain these secrets and many more and introduce such memorable characters as the Elephant?s Child, the Cat that Walked by H ...Show more
Classic Locked Room Mysteries by David Stuart Davies
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' Featuring well-known sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Jennie [Essential Modern Classics] by Paul Gallico
19.00 NZD
Category: Classics
If in doubt, wash! What is it like to be a cat? Peter Brown longs for a pet cat. One day, he is following a stray cat through the streets when he is knocked down and seriously hurt. On waking, he is astonished to find that he has turned into a cat The world is a dangerous place for him, but luckily he i ...Show more
Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.The second world war classic of life under Nazi occupation. Nemirovsky was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. In 1941, Ir ne sat down to write a book that would ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love: Popular Penguins by Anais Nin
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A Spy in the House of Love, whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions, echoes Anais Nin's personal struggle with sex, love, and emotional fragmentation.