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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
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Vintage | Reading Level: very good
A "New York Times" Notable Book. Sixteen years after Rene Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes' bones traverse a continent, passing between king ...Show more
Desire: Vintage Minis by Haruki Murakami
$5.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser. | Reading Level: very good
You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger ...Show more
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak; Max Hayward (TRN) Manya Harari (TRN)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Promo | Reading Level: very good
On they went singing 'Eternal Memory', and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing...Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician an ...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
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
After the death of her mother, an eleven-year-old girl finds that life with her father is too dangerous and tries to find a new home.
Ever After by Graham Swift
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedrooms of postwar Paris to the contemporary entanglements in the groves of academe. It is the story of Bill Unwin, a man haunted by the death of his beautify ...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
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries | Reading Level: good
The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world. In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially. Victor Ward, a mode ...Show more
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
$7.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating ...Show more
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