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The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
A young woman who has left the South, returns to New Orleans several years later when her father is dying. After his death, she and her young stepmother go back to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past and herself.
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must acco ...Show more
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. 'I've got all the proof necessary.'Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Waiter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfi ...Show more
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Blue Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed a single man. Meanwhile, in Venice, the city of chance and disguises, Villanelle was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father - but in the casinos she ...Show more
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh had publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. ...Show more
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption. Graham Greene explores corruption an ...Show more
The Rainbow by D H Lawrence
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This title is presented with an introduction by Rachel Cusk. Set between the 1840s and the early years of the twentieth century, "The Rainbow" tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, ancient occupiers of Marsh Farm, Nottinghamshire. Through courting, pregnancy, marriage and defiance ...Show more
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
$8.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors...Pope's mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of lite ...Show more
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"The Reader" is both a literary surprise and a moral challenge: a riveting, provocative, and deeply moving novel about a young boy's erotic awakening in a passionate, clandestine love affair with an older woman, and what happens to them both when the secrets in her past are revealed. Fifteen-year-old Mi ...Show more
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage.
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback) | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, "The Sense of an Ending" has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. This intense novel follows Ton ...Show more
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'In 1973 (Matthiessen) joined with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen i ...Show more