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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
14.99 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But though they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with colour, a ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics) by Jane Austen
16.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her place. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in th ...Show more
May We Borrow Your Husband? and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life by Graham Greene
26.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Author William Harris is spending the fag-end of the season at Antibes finishing his first attempt at historical biography, but he becomes more and more interested and involved in the antics of two homosexual interior decorators intent on stealing Poopy Travis' honeymoon husband. Which leaves him free t ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cu ...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
My Antonia by Willa Cather, Jane Smiley (Introduction)
29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics
his 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa Cather’s masterpiece includes the original illustrations by W. T. Benda and a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Jane Smiley. In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Cather created one of the most winning heroines in Ameri ...Show more
Native Son by Richard Wright
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Gripping and furious, "Native Son" follows Bigger Thomas, a young black man who is trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death, he is hunted relentlessly, baited by prejudiced officials, charged with murder and driven to acknowledge a strange pri ...Show more
Northanger Abbey (Vintage Classics) by Jane Austen
16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY P.D. JAMES The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion ...Show more
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
17.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly r ...Show more
Orlando: A Biography (Vintage Classics) by Virginia Woolf
26.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and t ...Show more
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming ...Show more
Patrick White: A life by David Marr
22.99 NZD
24.99 (8% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster ...' Patrick White Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogra ...Show more