Bleak House (Clothbound Classic) by Charles Dickens
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce gri ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$48.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stew ...Show more
Frankenstein - Puffin Clothbound Classics by Mary Shelley
$35.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Puffin Clothbound Classics - stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the world Victor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to create life, he has created a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone it meets, foll ...Show more
Vanity Fair (Clothbound Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Poems (Wildred Owen) by Wilfred Owen
$24.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift ed ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Clothbound Classic) by Thomas Hardy; Keith Wilson (Editor); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
At a country fair near Casterbridge in the fictional county of Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober the n ...Show more
Ulysses (Clothbound Classic) by James Joyce
$50.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Set in Dublin, Ulysses tells the story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin (16 June 1904). The title of the work references the fact that James Joyce draws heavily on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey, in the work, creating parallels between Bloom and Ulysses (Odysseus), Molly Bloom and Penelope (U ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$55.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes. At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly e ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath a ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
" As nearly flawless as any fiction could be."-- Eudora Welty"As nearly flawless as any fiction could be."--Eudora Welty"As nearly flawless as any fiction could be." --Eudora WeltyFamously characterized as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of "civili ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Jane Austen's timeless works of romantic fiction have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and adored writers in the English language. Now any fan of Austen's sparkling literary satires can collect all six of her full-length novels in magnificent clothbound editions. With covers by award-wi ...Show more
Persuasion (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen; Gillian Beer (Introduction by, Editor, Notes by); Coralie Bickford-smith (Illustrator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Sir Walter Elliot, de Kellynch-Hall, dans le comté de Somerset, n'avait jamais touché un livre pour son propre amusement, si ce n'est le livre héraldique. Là il trouvait de l'occupation dans les heures de désoeuvre- ment, et de la consolation dans les heures de chagrin. Devant ces vieux parchemins, il é ...Show more