Animal Farm by George Orwell
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others' When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded ...Show more
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Popular Penguins by Ken Kesey
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-lovi ...Show more
Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning that combine to profoun ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story [Thorsons Classics edition] by RICHARD BACH
21.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The complete edition of a timeless classic, includes the recently rediscovered Part Four and 'Last Words' by Richard Bach.Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. 'Most gulls don't bother to learn mor ...Show more
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass (Collins Classics) by Lewis Carroll
10.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
This edition contains the original, unabridged text.John Tenniel's iconic illustrations bring the worlds of Wonderland and the Looking Glass to life.57,500 words.
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
A tale of raw adventure as Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. It uncovers the slow maturing of love and trust between two loners in a hard world. Filmed as Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
The Whale Rider (Popular Penguin) by Witi Ihimaera
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duties as chief of the Maori in Whangara, New Zealand—a tribe that claims descent from the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now t ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
The Denniston Rose (Popular Penguin) by Jenny Pattrick
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty co ...Show more