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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.
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
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; Anthony Thwaite (Introduction by)
$20.00 NZD
$28.00 (28% off)
Category: Toy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead ...Show more
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
$25.00 NZD
$29.00 (13% off)
Category: Toy | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War.
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
$20.00 NZD
Category: Toy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Orlando has always been an outsider. His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England amd imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is th ...Show more
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
$26.95 NZD
Category: Toy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Written with astonishing clarity and an unsentimental intelligence, Out of Africa portrays a way of life that has disappeared for ever. In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed ...Show more
Selected Poetry: Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Richard Holmes (Introduction by, Notes by)
$27.00 NZD
Category: Toy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With this collection, renowned Colridge biographer Richard Holmes casts new light on the poets sensibilities and accomplishments. Holmes divides the poems into eight categories of theme and genre, dispelling the myth of Coleridge as "the metaphysical dreamer" and rediscovering him as a Romantic autobiog ...Show more
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
$29.95 NZD
$31.00 (3% off)
Category: Toy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" recreates epic events with extraordinary viv ...Show more
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
$26.95 NZD
Category: Toy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as 'My Country Right or Lef ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
$14.95 NZD
$21.00 (28% off)
Category: Toy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. ...Show more
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