Giovanni's Room (Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native So ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Seais edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress An ...Show more
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: The Sisterhood
Celebrating International Women's Day with the original sisterhood Little Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in his lonely hut high in the Alps and she quickly learns to love her new life. But her strict aunt decides to send her away again to live in the town. Heidi cannot bear being away from the ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables (The Sisterhood) by L. M. Montgomery
$23.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: The Sisterhood
Celebrate International Women's Day with the original sisterhood Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. They are waiting for an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a skinny, red-haired girl turns up instead. Feisty and full of spirit, Anne Shirley charms her way into ...Show more
The Secret Garden (Illustrated Novel) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$23.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Sisterhood Classics - unforgettable novels by female writers After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that ...Show more
The Golden Notebook (Collins Modern Classics) by Doris Lessing
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young ch ...Show more
Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation."--from The Alchemist The Alchemist tells the story of Santiago, the young Andalusian shepherd who dreams of buried treasure in Egypt and embarks upon a challenging journey to find it. With all the simplicity and symbolic richness of a fable, C ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
$24.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...' This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling o ...Show more
In the Memorial Room (Text Classics) by Janet Frame
$15.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Text Classics
In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table. Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship - a 'living memorial' to the poet Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the Fr ...Show more
The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
In Call of the Wild, Buck lives as a pampered house dog in California. He eats well, sleeps when he wants, and is treated with affection by his owners--that is, until he is abducted by thieves and pressed into service as a sled dog for the Klondike Gold Rush. Mistreated by a succession of abusive owners ...Show more
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go Shortlisted for the Booker Prize England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious d ...Show more