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20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic | 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
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
34.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming nove ...Show more
A Burnt-out Case by Graham Greene
26.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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 Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good
A comedy of errors, this title portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
26.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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 Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
17.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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 Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia by Laurie Lee
26.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashes slums, the cult of t ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (PB Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; Hablot Knight Browne
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...Show more
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Peter Mayle's account of his first year in Provence describes anything from the local cuisine, hilarious tips for wooing fickle French contractors, handicapping goat races, enduring winter's icy mistral and much more. A NYT Bestseller for three years!
Alice Scott Vintage Prints Extraordinary Voyages Mini Journal Set by Galison
19.99 NZD
Category: Journals | Series: Vintage Prints
Travel back in time and around the world with the Vintage Prints Extraordinary Voyages Mini Journal Set. Antique artwork, both eccentric and extraordinary, covers each of the three 144-page journals featuring elastic closures. All three mini journals are packaged in a box with a clear top and wafer seal ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Vintage Classics) by Lewis Carroll; John Tenniel (Illustrator)
16.99 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy wo ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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