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Your favourite classics, in beautiful deluxe editions with foiled covers, sprayed edges and marbled endpapers, complete with a silk ribbon.

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Penguin Modern Aotearoa Classics

Introducing Penguin Modern Aotearoa Classics A gorgeous new collection of some of our favourite Kiwi stories.

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Amado V. Hernandez, Danton Remoto (translator)
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The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson
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Sandra Cisneros
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Winifred Holtby
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Noel Streatfeild: Ballet Shoes & more
Noel Streatfeild
Nothing Serious
P.G. Wodehouse
Cain
Walter Hill, Michael Benson
Love in a Cold Climate & The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford
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Anthony Berkeley
Humour and Madness: Early Restoration Comedies
William Wycherley, Aphra Behn, John Dryden, George Etherege, Thomas Otway and Edward Ravenscroft
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Brian Sibley
The Algernon Blackwood BBC Radio Collection
Algernon Blackwood
Rumer Godden: Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer & The Dark Horse
Rumer Godden
Tales from the Arabian Nights
Anonymous dramatised by Colin Haydn Evans
Intrigue and Satire: Later Restoration Comedies
Aphra Behn, Susanna Centivre, William Congreve, Mary Delarivier Manley, George Farquhar & John Vanburgh
Count Luna
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Last Comes the Raven
Italo Calvino
Chevengur
Andrey Platonov
Great Spanish Stories
Great Italian Stories
Various
Lies and Sorcery
Elsa Morante
The Guy de Maupassant BBC Radio Drama Collection
Guy De Maupassant
The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler
M. R. James: Stories I Have Tried to Write
Sheila Hodgson
An Italian Christmas
Various
Goethe: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Game Without Rules
Michael Gilbert
Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Best of Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Rebellion
Joseph Roth
The Complete Fiction
Nella Larsen
Gangsters Don't Die
Tod Goldberg
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete BBC Collection
Arthur Conan Doyle
Death in Midsummer
Yukio Mishima
The Great Gatsby & Related Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
G K Chesterton
More Voices from the Radium Age
Joshua Glenn
The Dylan Thomas BBC Radio Collection
Dylan Thomas
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales
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Molière: Don Juan, The Miser and more
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The Alexander Pushkin BBC Radio Collection
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The Secret History

The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.