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Treasure Island (Vintage Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
$6.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This book contains an Introduction by Jake Arnott. When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirate's chest in his parents' inn, he is drawn into a world of danger and adventure. He joins the crew setting sail to the Caribbean to seek out the booty and over the course of the voyage confront ...Show more
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s. From the Trade Paperback edition.
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
1. In Australia, Ned Kelly is so revered as a national icon that his image was placed on center stage during the opening ceremonies of the Summer 2000 Olympic Games. Though his legacy is still controversial and some regard him as a criminal and murderer, he is widely seen as a champion of the oppressed ...Show more
Vintage Murakami by Haruki Murakami
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Original Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. Murakami's bold willingness to go straight over the top is a signal indication of his genius. . . . A world-class writer who has both eyes open and takes big risks. - ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (tr from Russion Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" and "The Brothers Karamazov," comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy's master epic. "War and Peace" centers broadly on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 ...Show more
We Ride upon Sticks - A Novel by Quan Barry
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries | Reading Level: very good
2021 ALEX AWARD WINNER ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR - TIME - BOOK RIOT - LITHUB - KIRKUS REVIEWS In the town of Danvers, Massachusetts, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals--even if it means tapping into some devilishl ...Show more
What We Talk about When We Talk About Love by R. Carver
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film "Birdman," Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and find ...Show more
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: very good
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
$10.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Thirty-six essays by Calvino on his personal classics: the writers, poets and scientists who meant most to him at various stages of his life. His pieces range from antiquity (Homer and Ovid), through early modern and Enlightenment Europe, such as (Defoe), to American mentors (Hemingway).
Wise Children by Angela Carter
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
Work by Joseph Heller
$3.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Vintage Minis | Reading Level: very good
Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this darkly satirical book, Joseph Heller takes us for a turn on the maddening hamster wheel of work. Heller's workplace is a cradle of paranoia, bravado an ...Show more