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A Burnt-out Case by Graham Greene
$33.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. ...Show more
A Christmas Carol (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Ser.
'Bah ' said Scrooge, 'Humbug ' Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show him some bitter truths abo ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
$18.00 NZD
Category: Ernest Hemingway | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene
$33.00 NZD
Category: Graham Greene | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Raven is an assassin, a hired killer, and his brutal murder of the Minister raises the spectre of war across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and hunting the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually unearthing the terrible truth behind the ki ...Show more
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
$27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
On the high seas of the Caribbean, a family of English children is set loose âe" sent by their parents from their home in Jamaica to receive the civilising effects of England. When their ship is captured by pirates, the thrilling cruise continues as the children transfer their affections from one batch ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
$26.00 NZD
Category: Ernest Hemingway | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of wome ...Show more
A Sort of Life by Graham Greene
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good
This is the first volume of Graham Greene's notoriously misleading, mischevious, but nonetheless fascinating autobiography Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes become inextricably intertwined with those of two men, the heroic aristocra ...Show more
After The Banquet by Yukio Mishima
$27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit, and ...Show more
Agnes Grey (Vintage Classics) by Anne Brontë; Samantha Ellis (Introduction by)
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Brontë. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Brontë's own experiences in the field. It was Brontë's first novel. Similar to her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, this is a novel that addresses what the precari ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
$19.99 NZD
$28.99 (31% off)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more