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A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, Mark Twain
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: good
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtBy Mark TwainAn extravagant but cleverly planned burlesque that works as a condemnation of Chivalry, one of Twain's chief aversions...
At the Mountains of Madness by H P Lovecraft
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. LovecraftOn an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in thes ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens; Norman Page (Editor); J. Hillis Miller Jr. (Introduction by)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: good
Bleak House is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the vastest, most complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by a mostly omniscient narrator. Memorable charac ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show'. Dickens' epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he ...Show more
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil'. Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark ps ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window'. A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, "Dracula" also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he m ...Show more
Evelina by Frances Burney
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: good
'O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one short morning of happiness!' In this comic and sharply incisive satire of excess and affectations, beautiful young Evelina falls victim to the rakish advances of Sir Clement Willoughby on her entrance to the world of fashionable London. Co ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'. A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveya ...Show more
Great Expectations (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. "What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs are?" "I can't guess what it is, ma'am." "It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" "Great Expectations", Dickens' ...Show more
Howards End by E M Forster
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We rich can'. 'Only connect' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich ...Show more
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
"The Penguin English Library Edition" of "Ivanhoe" by Walter Scott. 'Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!'. Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is t ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
$12.00 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