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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
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.