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In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
IN PATAGONIA is a Quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, as he goes along, describes his encounters with other people whose stories delay him on the road.
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf's own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine's case, her poet grandfather, and in Woolf's, her father Leslie Stephen, writer, philosopher, and editor. Both desire to break away from the ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
Published in 1864, Notes from Underground is considered the author's first masterpiece - the book in which he "became" Dostoevsky - and is seen as the source of all his later works. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose acclaimed translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment ha ...Show more
Nuns and Soldiers by Iris Murdoch
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: near fine
Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Tim is a different sort of soldier. He plans to live off rich friends. Who will judge whom in this story?
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
"On the Black Hill" is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the 20th century. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their ...Show more
Pharmacopoeia - A Dungeness Notebook by Derek Jarman
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.' In 1986 artist and filmmaker, Derek Jarman, bought Prospect Cottage, a Victorian fish ...Show more
Pictures Of Fidelman by Bernard Malamud
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Arthur Fidelman, Bronx-born and raised, is a self-confessed failure as a painter. When he goes to Italy to prepare a critical study of Giotto, a picaresque tale of comedy and adventure ensues.
Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: very good
This is a post war story of a wounded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart in Georgia.
Something Special by Iris Murdoch
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Something Special was previously unpublished except in a 1950s anthology and in Japan, and rediscovered after her death. It is the only short story that Iris Murdoch ever wrote for publication. Set in Dublin, against the vividly recognisable backdrop of the writer's native city in the late fifties, Some ...Show more
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA 'One of the great novels of the 20th century, and now published in English for the first time' Observer 'A gripping panorama of the human experience' Kenneth Branagh In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front ...Show more
The Ascent of Rum Doodle (Vintage Classics) by W. E. Bowman
$8.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, The Ascent of Rum Doodle has been a cult favourite since its publication in 1956. Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men including Dr Prone (constantly ill); Jungle the route finder (constant ...Show more
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
This title is with an introduction by A. S. Byatt. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the wise old Abbess, Imber Cou ...Show more