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A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
$19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
asper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say. He knows two things about his own world. He'll never work down the mines and he does know about animals. His only cpompanion is his kestrel hawk and, like himself, with the will to destroy or be destroyed. Filmed as 'Kes' by Ken Loach.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classics - children | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Alice, a girl of seven years, is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on the riverbank with her elder sister. She then notices a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch run past. She follows it down a rabbit hole when suddenly she falls a long way to a curi ...Show more
Aristophanes - The Wasps; The Poet and the Woman; The Frogs by Aristophanes
$24.95 NZD
Category: English & Drama - children | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a ...Show more
Emma (Summer Classics Edition) by Jane Austen
$14.95 NZD
Category: Toy | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
A classic love story in which the heroine is the last to find out who it is she really loves. Emma Wodehouse is the loveable heroine of this enduring story about the relations between men and women, and one girl's confused journey into womanhood. Emma Woodhouse may have decided that she will never ma ...Show more
Fairy Tales, 200th Anniversary Edition - Penguin Hardback Classic by Hans Christian Andersen
$59.95 NZD
$70.00 (14% off)
Category: Folktales, Fairytales, Legends | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A new selection of 30 tales to mark the 200 year anniversary of Andersen's birth in 2005. Tiina Nunnally
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
$14.95 NZD
Category: Toy | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
The classic story of orphan Pip and the mysterious fortune which falls into his lap, his snobbish rejection of his old friends and his growth through pain and mishap into true maturity.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
$20.00 NZD
$21.00 (4% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meets the icy beaut ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
$9.95 NZD
Category: Classics - children | Series: Penguin Popular Classics
Richard Hannay, South African mining engineer and war hero, undertakes a perilous mission to pursue the elusive "Greenmantle". His success or failure could change the outcome of World War I.
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
$14.95 NZD
Category: Toy | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
Orphaned into cruel charity at the hands of her rich cousins and later at Lowood school, Jane escapes to take up a position as a governess to the young ward of Mr Rochester. The story of their love affair, Jane's discovery of Rochester's secret and her desperate flight is an enduring classic.
Jane Eyre - Penguin Red Classics by Charlotte Bronte (Author) , Michael Mason (Introduction by)
$15.99 NZD
Category: Toy | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Charlotte Bronte's first published novel, "Jane Eyre" was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847. Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. ...Show more
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
$12.95 NZD
$14.95 (13% off)
Category: Toy | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
David Balfour sets off into the world to find his last remaining relative, Ebenezer, with no idea of the hazards and intrigues to follow. Tricked into bording a ship he finds himself bound for slavery in Carolina but overcomes shipwreck and the accustation of murder, to emerge the trimphant hero and cla ...Show more
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
$12.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mista ...Show more