Browse by category
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
$7.00 NZD
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
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
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.
Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers by Joseph Heller
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Claudine and Annie by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this final novel in Colette's famous series it is Claudine's friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary. Claudine is happily settled with her adored husband Renaud, spending her time giving wide and worldly advice to despairing Annie whose life with the boring and dominating Alai ...Show more
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work ...Show more
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Larissa Volokhonsky (Annotations by, Translator); Richard Pevear (Annotations by, Translator)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
«Besy» - odin iz spornykh romanov Dostoevskogo. Odni vidyat v nem prorocheskiy pamflet. Drugie - literaturnyy poligon dlya ispytaniya filosofskikh i sotsial'nykh idey. Tret'i - izoshchrennyy politicheskiy triller, ostroaktual'nyy dlya rossiyskoy zhizni konflikt mezhdu «liberalami» i «patriotami», mezhdu ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
$0.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With an essay by J. I. M. Stewart. 'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears ... But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it ...Show more
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and t ...Show more
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o ...Show more