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Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY. Consumed by the idea of his own special destiny, immured in poverty and deprivation, Rashkolnikov is drawn to commit a terrible crime. In the aftermath, Rashkolnikov is dogged by madness, guilt and a calculating detective, and a feverish cat-and-mous ...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: Vintage Minis by Julian Barnes
9.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Barnes is the perfect ...Show more
Depression: Vintage Minis by William Styron
9.99 NZD
Category: Health | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction. He lived to ...Show more
Desire: Vintage Minis by Haruki Murakami
9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Minis Ser. | Reading Level: very good
You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger ...Show more
Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Boris Pasternak
23.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Ser.
FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKYDoctor Zhivagois the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with cruel experience of the new order and the changes it has wrought in h ...Show more
Don Quixote (Vintage classics Europeans Series) by Miguel de Cervantes
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Classic Europeans Ser.
The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, ...Show more
Dreams Vintage Minis by Sigmund Freud
10.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Selected from the writings of Sigmund Freud. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Drinking: Vintage Minis by John Cheever
9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are ...Show more
Eating: Vintage Minis by Nigella Lawson
9.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
In this inspiring, witty and eminently sensible book, Nigella Lawson sets out a manifesto for how to cook (and eat) good food every day with a minimum of fuss. From basic roast chicken and pea risotto to white truffles and Turkish Delight figs, Nigella brings the joy back into the kitchen. Selected fro ...Show more
Fatherhood: Vintage Minis by Karl Ove Knausgaard
9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
How to be a good father? Children?s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes- the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard?s compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the ...Show more