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A Burnt-out Case by Graham Greene
$8.00 NZD
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
$10.00 NZD
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
$10.00 NZD
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 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
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Vintage Classics) by Lewis Carroll; John Tenniel (Illustrator)
$7.00 NZD
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
An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good
This is the story of nine people, each of whom is looking for love, and the resulting complex relationships between them. Impelled by affection, lust, lost scruple, illusion and disillusion, wanting to be free yet needing to be involved, these characters perform the linked figures of their destiny.
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is a ...Show more
Atonement by Ian McEwan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This novel is enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, class and England, at its centre is a profound and profoundly moving exploration of shame and forgiveness.
Augustus - A Novel by John Williams
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is mu ...Show more
Brothers Grimm - The Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm K. Grimm
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Future Classics S. | Reading Level: good-very good
Published in 1961, this book presents a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.