Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Broadly comedic and brilliantly postmodern in its lampooning of a genre, the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Morland, a naive young woman whose perceptions of the world around her are greatly influenced by the romantic gothic novels to which she is addicted. When she mo ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
16.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Text Classics
So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mill ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy lord, sending Heathcliff on a li ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and na vet continue to charm. This volume ...Show more
Cheri by Colette
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.This is Colette's famous love story about the romance between an older woman and a younger man.Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing ...Show more
The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir by de Beauvoir, Simone, Levy, Deborah, Elkin, Lauren, Beauvoir, Sylvie le Bon de
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- beautiful flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.The lost novel from the author of The Second SexWhen Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for her age, but walks w ...Show more
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
29.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, ...Show more
Swann in Love by Marcel Proust (translated by Lucy Raitz)
33.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A stunning deluxe edition of the stand-alone novella from Proust's masterpiece--an intoxicatingly witty story of infatuation and jealousy--delivers the most memorable reading experience A new translation commemorating a century since the monumental masterpiece was first published in English--and since ...Show more
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
25.00 NZD
Category: 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. Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, shy and out of his depth, has a talent for ba ...Show more
The Two Towers (Special unjacketed hardback edition) by J R R Tolkien
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Lord of the Rings Ser.
Special unjacketed hardback edition of the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. This edition features the complete story with a unique cover design embellished with copper foil and the iconic maps appearing in red and black as endpapers.Frodo and the Companions of the ...Show more
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
25.00 NZD
Category: 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. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret ...Show more