The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
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Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
"Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, ...Show more
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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Category: Classic Books
The story of the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family, told through the minds of three of its members, including the imbecilci Benjy - 'the tale told by an idiot'. In very different ways they prove inadequate to their own family history, unable to deal with either the responsibility of th ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
26.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" a ...Show more
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes: Edith Grossman (trans)
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Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HAROLD BLOOM Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they t ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidd ...Show more
The Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919 and ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classic Books
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse ...Show more
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
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Category: Classic Books
All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire, on patrol, waiting in the trenches, at home on ...Show more
Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
One of the finest war novels ever written, Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Co ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regime ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more