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The Pearl by John Steinbeck
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
After the phenomenal success of The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck should have enjoyed the fame, the wealth, and the Pulitzer Prize this book brought to him. But the public spotlight made him uneasy. In 1944, as he considered the personal impact of his prosperity, Steinbeck began The Pearl. Reworking an anc ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Anne Bronte is the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son. By challenging the prevailing morals of the time the novel caused a critic to pronounce it ''utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls' ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James
$48.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in danger - and if so, from whom? The novella is accompanied here by several more of the ve ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
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. From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth . ...Show more
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Bedtime Classics: charmingly illustrated board book editions of perennial favorites, simplified for the youngest readers Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character-driven narratives and colorful illustration. Designed to be the perfect one minu ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
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. The story grew out of a map that led to imaginary tre ...Show more
Treasure Island (Clothbound) by Robert Louis Stevenson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Complete and unabridged paperback edition. Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X," schoone ...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
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
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
In time for the 200th anniversary of her birth, a Penguin Hardcover Classics edition of the book many believe to be Charlotte Bront''s crowning achievement With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. ...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
Wide Sargasso Sea (Clothbound Classic) by Jean Rhys
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light on ...Show more