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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
Mind Training - The Great Collection by Thupten Jinpa; Shonu Gyalchok (Compiled by); Konchok Gyaltsen (Compiled by)
70.00 NZD
Category: Productivity | Series: Library of Tibetan Classics Ser.
Compiled in the fifteenth century, Mind Training: The Great Collection is the earliest anthology of a special genre of Tibetan literature known as "mind training," or lojong in Tibetan. The principal focus of these texts is the systematic cultivation of such altruistic thoughts and emotions as compassio ...Show more
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville The voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab, who leads his crew on a hunt for the great whale Moby Dick, reveals a profound meditation on society, nature, and the human struggle for meaning, happiness, and salvation. Often considered the epitome of Ameri ...Show more
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
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is edited with an introduction and notes by Marylin Butler in Penguin Classics. During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first t ...Show more
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
35.00 NZD
Category: Christianity | Series: Image Classics Ser.
Chesterton's classic explanation of the essentials of the Christian faith and of his pilgrimage to belief.
Selected Writings by Meister Eckhart
35.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and the Christian faith. Writing with great rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart comb ...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 Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran
35.00 NZD
Category: Hinduism | Series: Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality Ser.
The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran's best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound. Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. C ...Show more
The Conference of the Birds by Farid Attar
35.00 NZD
Category: Sufism | Series: Classics Ser.
Considered by Rumi to be "the master" of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul's search for meaning. He recounts the perilous journey of the world's birds to the faraway peaks of Mount Qaf in search of the mysterious Simorgh, their king ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler; Harry Brockway
17.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more