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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
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: near fine
This title includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young things'. His hosts, Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Priscilla, are joined by a party of colourful guests whose intrigues a ...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
Death In Venice And Other Stories by Thomas Mann
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, he notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon Aschenbach’s days begin to revolve around seeing this boy ...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
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
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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
Great Expectations (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; F. W. Pailthorpe (Illustrator)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more