The Iliad (Fast Track Classics) by Homer
2.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Fast Track Classics
This wonderful series is a quick way into a range of exciting stories, from the chilling tale of "Frankenstein", to the gripping adventure of "Treasure Island" and the powerful animal story of "Call of the Wild". Fast-moving and accessible, each story is a shortened, dramatically illustrated version of ...Show more
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.
The Call of the Wild & White Fang (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jack London
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home in California and forced to pull sleds in the Arctic wasteland. White Fang, by contrast, is the tale of a crossbreed who is three-quarters wolf and a quarter dog, and who must endure considerable suffering in the ...Show more
Aesop's Fables (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Aesop
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady tortoise - just as endearingly vivid a ...Show more
Our Man in Havana (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Graham Greene
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Graham Greene's blackly comic espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daught ...Show more
The Third Man and Other Stories by Graham Greene
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable - torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What's more, Harry is dead, and the circumstances look suspicious . . . Determined to uncover the ...Show more
Swimming: Vintage Minis by Roger Deakin
9.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is Roger Deakin's swimming tour of Britain, a frog's-eye view of the country's best bathing holes - the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds lochs and sea that define this watery island. Charming, funny, inspiring, an assertion of the n ...Show more
The Odyssey (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Homer
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Odyssey is a classic poem written by Homer that consists of 12.110 verses. It is unique already in that it has reached our days in its original form. This poem is a genuine revelation of the poetic thought of ancient Hellas....After the Trojan War, most of the survived Greek leaders returned by sea ...Show more
Sydney Bridge Upside Down by David Ballantyne
17.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
"There was an old man who lived on the edge of the world and he had a horse called Sydney Bridge Upside Down. He was a scar-faced old man and his horse was a slow-moving bag of bones, and I start with this man and his horse because they were there for all the terrible happenings up the coast that summer ...Show more
The Little Prince (Picador Classic) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Kate MosseTranslated by Ros SchwartzAll grown-ups were children once (but most of them have forgotten).A pilot who has crash landed in the desert awakes to see an extraordinary little boy. 'Please,' asks the stranger, 'will you draw me a little lamb!' Baffled by the little prince ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
A well-priced edition of one of the greatest twentieth century novels, with a striking new jacket and an introduction by Charlotte Wood.Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in what remains of a Britain ravaged by revolution. His every move is monitored by the Thought Police, who are responsible ...Show more
The Time Machine: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have reason to be afraid: in tunnels bene ...Show more