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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Manuscripts don't burn' This ribald, carnivalesque satire - featuring the Devil, true love and a gun-toting cat - was written in the darkest days of the Soviet Union and became an underground sensation.A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pock ...Show more
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
$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 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 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 Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals m ...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