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1984 by George Orwell
$46.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
$0.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized. Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both ...Show more
Adam Bede by George Eliot
$39.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
George Eliot's debut novel tells a story of love in rural eighteenth-century England. Adam Bede is an upstanding, hardworking, intelligent young man, the kind of person who knows what he wants--and what he wants is the incredibly shallow Hetty Sorrel. Though Hetty is a milkmaid, she harbors dreams of b ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
$43.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The eternally entertaining tales attributed to him
Alice in Wonderland / Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
$43.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
The two Alice books--Lewis Carroll's masterpieces--are ranked by many as peers of the great adult works of English literature. And despite their riches of "untranslatable" puns, nonsense, and parody, they have been happily translated around the world. The matchless original illustrations by Tenniel shar ...Show more
Anna Karenina by L.N. Tolstoy
$60.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
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Bedtime Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire. From the surreal night visions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman B ...Show more
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Christian Birmingham's stunning new colour edition of Anna Sewell's classic tale is complete and unabridged, and the narrative voice of Black Beauty as fresh as the day the story was first published in 1877. This enchanting story of the bravery of a horse in Victorian Britain has captivated and enthrall ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
$39.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it.
Buddenbrooks - The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann; John E. Woods (Translator)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929. Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story o ...Show more
Candide by Voltaire
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment, and its crowning achievement was Voltaire's "Candide". It follows the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence and human insanity - of its hero and his absurd tutor, Dr Pangloss.
Catch 22 by Heller
$56.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Catch-22" is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in a ...Show more