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Man Alone (VUP Classics) by John Mulgan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Man Alone is one of the foundation stones of New Zealand literature. Almost all copies of the first edition, published in England in 1939, were destroyed in the Blitz. When it was republished in New Zealand in 1949, after the author’s suicide in Cairo in 1945, the publisher Paul’s Book Arcade made a num ...Show more
THE ART OF WAR by Sunzi
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A delightfully illustrated version of Sunzi's classic The Art of War by bestselling cartoonist C. C. TsaiC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over twenty languages. This volume presents Tsai's delightful g ...Show more
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Lewis Carroll; Anna South (Afterword by); John Tenniel (Illustrator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll.
Animal Farm (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell; Jason Cowley (Introduction by)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artis ...Show more
The Little Book of Alice - Wonderland's Wit and Wisdom by Orange Orange Hippo!
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
The wit and wisdom of Wonderland in one handy companion. From the indisputable logic of Tweedledum to the nonsensical riddles posed by the Mad Hatter, the witty rejoinders of the Red Queen to the strange wisdom of the Cheshire Cat, there is no denying that Lewis Carroll's most famous works, Alice's Adv ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This c ...Show more
The Go-Between (Macmillan Collector's Library) by L. P. Hartley
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
L. P. Hartley's enduring coming of age story about a forbidden love and its terrible consequences, now beautifully packaged with an afterword by publisher Anna South.An invitation for young Leo to join a school friend at Brandham Hall - a world of privilege far removed from his own - for the scorchingly ...Show more
Best Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by W. Somerset Maugham
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Ten of W. Somerset Maugham's wonderful stories in one gorgeous collector's volume.Reading the stories of Somerset Maugham is rather like curling up and up listening to the delicious, risqu� tales of an old, dear and rather wicked friend. You turn the pages and enter a magical world of fabulous character ...Show more
The Three Musketeers (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Alexandre Dumas; Peter Harness (Introduction by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the Kings Muske ...Show more
The Jungle Book (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling; David Stuart Davies (Afterword by); William Henry Drake (Illustrator); John Lockwood Kipling (Illustrator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a classic story of friendship between man and beast. Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. The adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ...Show more
Great Expectations (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
