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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$23.00 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. A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty John Gregory Dunne and Joan ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
$24.89 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, thatmade him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byronand a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty throughthe death of two elder brothers, su ...Show more
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Friedrich Nietzsche
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This revelatory new translation by strips Thus Spoke Zarathustra down to its foundations in Gothic horror, and discovers a much darker book than previously understood. Not content to focus erringly on God is dead, this new translation sings a dithyramb to the earth at the same time as it mercilessly hun ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
2023 Reprint of the 1927 edition. The subject of this brilliant novel is the daily life of an English family in the Hebrides. "There are dozens of passages in which the secret relations of men and women, especially women, to the trifling events of life are rendered with convincing and elaborate subtlety ...Show more
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes; Gerald McCann (Contribution by); John Tartaglione (Illustrator)
$0.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Classics Illustrated Ser.
One of the classics of English children's literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, this novel's steady popularity has given it an influence well beyond the upper middle-class world that it describes. It tells a story central to an understanding of Victorian life, but its ...Show more
Treasure Island (Legend Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Legend Classics Ser.
"Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"Sit back, relax, and enjoy this classic, beloved adventure.Treasure Island has proved unimaginably influential on our collective culture, defining our perception o ...Show more
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy by Len Deighton
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An action-packed Cold War thriller set in the deserts of North Africa A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom, but western intelligence has other plans for him, and sends an unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - to look after him. But what follows is a blo ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$28.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$23.00 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. Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more t ...Show more
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
$28.00 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Since 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends--Piglet, Owl, Tigger, and the ever doleful Eeyore--have endured as the unforgettable creations of A.A. Milne, who wrote this book for his son, Christopher Robin, and Ernest H. Shepard, who lovingly gave Pooh and his companions shape. These characters and their ...Show more
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
$40.00 NZD
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Rider Classics Ser.
A beautiful collectable gift edition celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the ultimate cult feminist classic Within every woman, there lies a powerful force of energy, creativity and self-knowing: their wild woman. For centuries, she has been repressed by a male-orientated value system that trivialise ...Show more