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A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
0.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library
John Irving's seventh novel begins in 1953, as Owen Meany and his best friend, both 11, are playing in a Little League baseball game. Owen hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he's convinced he is God's instrument. What happens to him after that foul bal ...Show more
American Notes by Charles Dickens
12.95 NZD
34.95 (62% off)
Category: unsorted ex new release | Series: Modern Library
American Notes is the fascinating travel journal of one of 19th century America's most celebrated tourists--Charles Dickens. A lively chronicle of his five-month trip around the United States in 1842, the book records the author's adventures journeying by steamboat and stagecoach as well as his impressi ...Show more
Book That Changed My Life by Diane Osen
34.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Modern Library
In a collection of interviews, fifteen National Book Award winners and finalists--including James Carroll, Don DeLillo, E. L. Doctorow, David McCullough, Alice McDermott, and Cynthia Ozick--examine the profound relationship between reading and writing and describe the book that has had a profound in
Erogenous Zones by Lucretia Stewart
29.95 NZD
55.00 (45% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library
Presents a collection of nonfictional tales of sex and travel from such authors as Henry Miller, Joe Orton, Graham Greene, and Paul Theroux.
Fierce Pajamas by David Remnick
34.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
When Harold Ross founded "The New Yorker" in 1925, he called it a "comic weekly." And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder's description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era--among them Robert Benchley, D ...Show more
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
39.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library
Sir Walter Scott's novel of courage and honour in which young nobleman Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to claim his inheritance and the love of Rowena.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
19.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Modern Library
Containing an introduction by Diane Johnson, this is a love story.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
19.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Modern Library
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
37.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Modern Library
Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of English country family life.
Secret Ingredients - The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink by David Remnick (ed.)
42.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
In this indispensable collection, "The New Yorker" dishes up a feast of delicious food writing--food and drink memoirs, short stories, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Modern Library
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals t ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
7.95 NZD
16.95 (53% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The Call of the Wild--Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world," E. L. Doctorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call of the ...Show more