A Breath of Lucifer by R. K. Narayan
7.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Includes such tales as: "A Breath of Lucifer", "House Opposite", "The Watchman", "Another Community", "Like the Sun", "Uncle's Letters", "Fruition at Forty" and "Half a Rupee's Worth".
The Cornet-player Who Betrayed Ireland by Frank O'Connor
3.99 NZD
7.00 (43% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
Contains such stories as "The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland", "Guests of the Nation", "A Story by Maupassant", and "First Confession". Praised as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a modern master of the short story. From an amateur brass band divided by partisanship to English soldiers who ...Show more
Wunderkind by Carson McCullers
7.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Writing about outcasts, dreamers and misfits in the Deep South, Carson McCullers was acclaimed for her sympathetic depictions of loneliness, the need for understanding and the search for love. These four masterly stories of eccentrics, failed prodigies, injustice and hope, written when she was in her tw ...Show more
Lunar Caustic by Malcolm Lowry
3.99 NZD
7.00 (43% off)
Category: Classic Books
'Staring out at the river his agony was like a great lidless eye'. In this stark, compelling and greatly autobiographical novella, Malcolm Lowry tells the story of Bill Plantagenet, a piano player and ex-sailor who has lost his band and his mind drinking in New York. As Plantagenet commits himself to a ...Show more
The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft
7.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Includes the three stories: "The Colour Out Of Space", "The Outsider" and "The Hound". H.P. Lovecraft was perhaps the greatest twentieth century practitioner of the horror story, introducing to the genre a new evil, monstrous, pervasive and unconquerable. At the heart of these three stories are terro ...Show more
Canon Alberic's Scrap-book by M. R. James
3.99 NZD
7.00 (43% off)
Category: Classic Books
Features four stories, in which figures appear in paintings, demonic voices are heard, books awaken ancient horrors - and ordinary objects and situations are transformed into inescapable nightmares. This book includes: "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book", "The Mezzotint", "The Rose Garden", and "The Stalls of ...Show more
The Tooth by Shirley Jackson
7.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
'Her tooth, which had brought her here unerringly, seemed now the only part of her to have any identity. It seemed to have had its picture taken without her; it was the important creature which must be recorded and examined and gratified; she was only its unwilling vehicle...' The creeping unease of liv ...Show more
Two Gallants by James Joyce
3.99 NZD
7.00 (43% off)
Category: Classic Books
'Little jets of wheezing laughter followed one another out of his convulsed body. His eyes, twinkling with cunning enjoyment, glanced at every moment towards his companion's face.' 'When he was quite sure that the narrative had ended he laughed noiselessly for fully half a minute. Then he said: Well...! ...Show more
The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
7.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
'Something or other lay in wait for him, amid the twists and turns of the months and the years, like a crouching beast in the jungle.' Henry James' devastating and profoundly moving novella is the story of John Marcher, a man who, for as long as he can remember, has been obsessed by the feeling that som ...Show more
They by Rudyard Kipling
7.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
'Of a sudden I realized that he was in the grip of some almost overpowering fear.' Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novels and poetry, but his short stories reveal a far more sinister and macabre side to his imagination. In these three chilling and psychologically penetrating tales, Kipling portray ...Show more
The Magic Paint by Primo Levi
3.99 NZD
7.00 (43% off)
Category: Classic Books
'He was blamed for endless disasters, from failed exams to a bridge collapse, an avalanche, even a shipwreck: all due, in the stupid opinion of, first, his fellow-students and, later, his colleagues, to the penetrating power of his evil eye...' Profound and compassionate, Primo Levi was one of the most ...Show more
Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. Lawrence
7.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
'Was this what it all meant - utter, intact separateness, obscured by heat of living?' D. H. Lawrence's short stories portray complex, flawed interior lives, showing individuals facing momentous emotional events. In these two stories of fragile happiness and failed dreams, a tragedy forces a woman to ac ...Show more