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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.'Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pur ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
The Penguin English Library Edition of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 'We have all been more or less to blame ... every one of us, excepting Fanny' Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble ran ...Show more
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
$21.00 NZD
Category: FICTION | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin'My hour is come . . . the clock of eternity is about to strike, but its knell must be unheard by mortal ears!'This violent, profound, baroque and blackly humorous novel is the story of Melmoth, who has sold his soul in exchan ...Show more
Middlemarch by George Eliot
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day'. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
$9.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerl ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
She always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.'On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and thei ...Show more
Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales (Penguin English Library) by Edgar Allan Poe
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin English Library
'...an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...' Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales, including - among others - the ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move ...Show more
Northanger Abbey (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen. 'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'. During an eventful season at Bath, yo ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
$12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin English Library
'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none'. Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, "Oliver Twist" features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous g ...Show more
Peter Pan (Penguin English Library) by James Matthew Barrie
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'All children, except one, grow up.'It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the backyard. The poor dog was barking, for she could smell danger. And she was right - this was the night that Peter Pan would take the Darling children on the most breath-taking advent ...Show more
Portrait of a Lady (Penguin English Library) by Henry James
$12.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James. 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her'. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Tou ...Show more