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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Confessions by St Augustine; R S Pine-Coffin (Translated by)
30.00 NZD
Category: Christianity | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Augustine's Confessions might be one of the most profound Christian testimonies ever recorded. Not necessarily because Augustine led an unusual life or faced intriguing circumstances which had to be overcome; because, in reality, the actual events of his life were relatively less than extraordinary. Aug ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determine ...Show more
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1869, "Lorna Doone" is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by cu ...Show more
Martin Eden by Jack London
10.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is a masterful study of obsession. This "Penguin Classics" edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco, with explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk. 'Call me Ishmael.' So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest wo ...Show more
Spiritual Verses : The first book of the Masnavi-ye Ma'navi by Jelaluddin Rumi
30.00 NZD
Category: Rumi | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Begun in 1244 AD, "Masnavi-ye Ma navi", or spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored mystical' poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a p ...Show more
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars, N. K. Sandars
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literatureMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells ...Show more
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powe ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
38.00 NZD
Category: Islam | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the boo ...Show more
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