Gigi by Colette
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!' This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris, her days are filled with cigars, lobster, l ...Show more
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is going to fix that' This is the story o ...Show more
Push by CHALENE JOHNSON
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world. 'I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning.' This is the story of Precious, a sixteen-year-old illiterate Black girl who has never been out of Harle ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatch ...Show more
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic' This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film e ...Show more
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Macmillan Collector's Library) by James Weldon Johnson
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics
James Weldon Johnson’s <i>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</i> is a powerful, trailblazing novel that exposes the intricate relationship between race and class in late nineteenth-century America. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized ...Show more
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics
E. M. Forster's beloved classic and sharp critique of imperialism, now for the first time in Penguin Classic When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs. Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 're ...Show more
The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
36.99 NZD
Category: Classics
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years l ...Show more
The Royal Game: A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
14.99 NZD
Category: Classics
A new edition of this classic Zweig story - an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner during WW2 unearths a story of persecution and obsession.
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
35.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
The Telephone Box Library by Rachael Lucas
22.99 NZD
Category: Classics
Burnt out after ten years at the chalkface, Lucy's taken a sabbatical from her job as a history teacher to focus on some research. She moves to a tiny Cotswolds cottage that comes with a reduced rent in exchange for keeping a daily eye on Bunty, an extremely feisty ninety-something. She arrives at the c ...Show more
The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton
59.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
No library's complete without the classics This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects the beloved tales of Arabian Nights, translated by Sir Richard Burton. They are ancient stories, but they still enchant our imaginations today. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Sinbad the Sailor. Aladdin. The ...Show more