To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
$24.00 NZD
Category: Ernest Hemingway
Harry Morgan is a tough guy making his living during the Depression from his motor boat in Key West, Florida. Although he normally takes out fishing parties, sometimes his boat can be put to other uses. If the money offered is worth his while, Harry will run guns, rum and men to and from Cuba. But he is ...Show more
To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bri ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: good
Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
$26.00 NZD
Category: Ernest Hemingway | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe.
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
The story of the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family, told through the minds of three of its members, including the imbecilci Benjy - 'the tale told by an idiot'. In very different ways they prove inadequate to their own family history, unable to deal with either the responsibility of th ...Show more
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evokin ...Show more
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
"Film opens in NZ - 22 January 2009 - major release Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just r ...Show more
Persuasion (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Austen Ser.
Jane Austen's final novel is her most mature and wickedly satirical. It follows the story of Anne Elliott, who as a teenager, was engaged to a seemingly ideal man, Frederick Wentworth. But after being persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that he is too poor to be a suitable match, Anne ends their engage ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
$17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
The Magus by John Fowles
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; Adam Thorpe (Translator)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...Show more
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$30.00 NZD
Category: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devas ...Show more