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The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield; Jilly Cooper (Introduction by)
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities. Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepte ...Show more
The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th cent ...Show more
The King's General by Daphne Du Maurier
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Inspired by a grisly discovery in the nineteenth century, The King's General was the first of du Maurier's novels to be written at Menabilly, the model for Manderley in Rebecca. Set in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of a country and a family riven by war, and features one of fiction's most ...Show more
The Loving Spirit (FS) by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Cornwall, 1900s. Plyn Boat Yard is a hive of activity, and Janet Coombe longs to share in the excitement of seafaring: to travel, to have adventures, to know freedom. But constrained by the times, instead she marries her cousin Thomas, a boat builder, and settles down to raise a family. Janet's loving s ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Carter
24.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This Audible Exclusive adaptation of Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, is brought expertly to life by multi-award winning actress, Fiona Shaw. A coming of age tale which extends the nature and boundaries of love, as seen through the eyes of the youthful and na ve Melanie, The Magic Toyshop was enormou ...Show more
The Passion Of New Eve by Angela Carter
27.99 NZD
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics | Reading Level: very good
'I know nothing. I am a tabula erasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself...New York has become the City of Dreadful ...Show more
The Peppermint Pig by Alan (ILT) Nina; Marks Bawden
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
There was a real pig poking its snout out of the milkman's coat pocket. It was the tiniest pig she had ever seen.' 'What's a peppermint pig?' Poll asks her mother. Johnnie was only the runt of the litter. He'd cost Mother a shilling, but somehow his naughtiness and cleverness kept Poll and her little br ...Show more
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not ...Show more
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth Von Arnim
27.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life. I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. Nobody shall be invited to stay with me, and if anyone calls they will be told that I am out, or away, or sick . . . Wouldn't a whole lovely summer, quite alone ...Show more
The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparent ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Refusing to compromise in spite of society's expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a ...Show more