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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.
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
27.99 NZD
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
Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
29.95 NZD
Category: Business | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"The title refers to an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. This game involves all branches of knowledge, and spiritual values - especially those of the east. Hesse's longing to find a dynamic fusion of mind with nature is set forth more pene ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
17.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o ...Show more
Great Expectations (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; F. W. Pailthorpe (Illustrator)
16.99 NZD
18.99 (10% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
Heart of Darkness: AND Youth by Joseph Conrad; Tim Butcher (Introduction by)
12.99 NZD
24.99 (48% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the lo ...Show more
How Sleep the Brave by H. E. Bates
26.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
He was without an equal in England in the kind of story he had made his own and stood in the direct line of succession of fiction writers of English countryside and that includes George Eliot, Hardy and D. H. Lawrence. First published under the pseudonym of Flying Officer S, H. E. Bates's heroic sto ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; Valerie Grove (Introduction by)
17.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Brontë Ser.
2016 CHARLOTTE BRONTE BICENTENARY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Vintage Classic) by Jules Verne
26.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans desc ...Show more