Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
12.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none'. Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, "Oliver Twist" features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous g ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
14.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself' Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power. Its story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent woman ...Show more
Persuasion (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
12.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect'. "Persuasion", Jane Austen's last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. It tells the ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Popular Penguins by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body - this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good-near fine
In this haunting, magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and the Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetr ...Show more
Hard Times: Popular Penguins by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young adult minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of ...Show more
Scoop: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch ...Show more
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonauthor: F. Scott FitzgeraldA man, "born under unusual circumstances," ages backwards, through a life that is as unusual as could be.
Pygmalion: Popular Penguins by Bernard Shaw
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
A barbed attack on the British class system, Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his ...Show more
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Popular Penguins by L. Frank Baum
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum. The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The novel is one of the best-kn ...Show more
The Invisible Man: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin, the new guest at The Coach and Horses, is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made ...Show more
Beowulf: Popular Penguins by Michael Alexander
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fidelity of implication. May it go on ... to another half-million copies." - Tom Shippey, Bulletin of the I ...Show more