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Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
27.95 NZD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ...Show more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be ...Show more
Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers by Joseph Heller
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic | 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
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work ...Show more
Darkness Visible by William Styron
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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.
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage classics
Hemingway's passion for Spain and for the bullfight is renowned. In DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON he shares the sights, the sounds, the excite-ment and, above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for the 'the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an an ...Show more
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak; Max Hayward (TRN) Manya Harari (TRN)
27.95 NZD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Promo | Reading Level: very good
On they went singing 'Eternal Memory', and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing...Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician an ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
19.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage classics
Joyce\\\'s first masterpiece, published in 1914 after being destroyed by its first printer, who considered it libellous, indecent and blasphemous. It describes fleeting episodes in the everyday lives of Dubliners, dealing progressively with youth, adolescence, young adulthood and maturity.
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
24.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and t ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more