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A Fairly Honourable Defeat: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL 'I ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
18.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | 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
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
30.00 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | 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
Bright Star The Complete Poems and Selected Letters (Vintage Classics) by John Keats
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This book includes an introduction by director Jane Campion. John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his l ...Show more
Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers by Joseph Heller
29.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Claudine Married (Claudine #3) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Claudine's marriage to Renaud has settled into a pattern of bickering and inattention. Just as she begins to fear herself confined to a stifled existence, a chance meeting with a friend's wife, the beautiful Rezi, draws her into an impassioned affair.
Claudine and Annie by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
27.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this final novel in Colette's famous series it is Claudine's friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary. Claudine is happily settled with her adored husband Renaud, spending her time giving wide and worldly advice to despairing Annie whose life with the boring and dominating Alai ...Show more
Claudine at School (Claudine #1) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Joubert twins Claudine wreaks havoc on her small school. Always clever, witty and charming Claudine is more than a match for her formidable headmistress as they ...Show more
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of Bursley and the Five Towns. Serious, good-natured and full of incoherent ambition, Edwin's hopes and dreams for the future are just taking shape, even as they are put to the t ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
17.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m ...Show more
Darkness Visible by William Styron
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With profound insight and remarkable candor, the author tracks the progress of his madness, from the smothering misery and exhaustion, to the agony of composing his own suicide note and his eventual, hard-won recovery.
Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Austen Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW MOTIONThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans- Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion.' ...Show more