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A Burnt-out Case by Graham Greene
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good
Querry, a world famous architect, is diagnosed as being "burnt-out". He arrives, anonymously, at a leper colony in the Congo, and loses himself in his work for them. Slowly, Querry approaches a cure for his disease of the mind. Then the white community find out who querry is.
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good
A comedy of errors, this title portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
National Bestseller One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slav ...Show more
A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia by Laurie Lee
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Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashes slums, the cult of t ...Show more
A Sort of Life by Graham Greene
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good
This is the first volume of Graham Greene's notoriously misleading, mischevious, but nonetheless fascinating autobiography Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A ...Show more
A Way in the World by V. S. Naipaul
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In a vastly innovative novel, Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create what is at once an autobiography and an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism.Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories ...Show more
Alice Munro - Selected Stories by Alice Munro
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Se ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Vintage Classics) by Lewis Carroll; John Tenniel (Illustrator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy wo ...Show more
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
Seymour "Swede" Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant postwar America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. ...Show more
An Anthropologist on Mars - Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver W Sacks
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Category: Psychology | Series: Vintage | Reading Level: very good
Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers - including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car a ...Show more
An Ice-cream War by William Boyd
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best." --The New York Times Book Review Booker Prize Finalist "Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of his] first novel. . . . He is capable not only of some very funny satire but also of se ...Show more