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Persuasion by Jane Austen
16.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Eight years ago, Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now, circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited. However, when they meet again Wentworth be ...Show more
Pharmacopoeia - A Dungeness Notebook by Derek Jarman
37.00 NZD
Category: Health | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.' In 1986 artist and filmmaker, Derek Jarman, bought Prospect Cottage, a Victorian fish ...Show more
Point Counter Point (PB) by Aldous Huxley
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy who devours every man in sight; the repulsive Spandrell deflowers youn ...Show more
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics
This title comes with an introduction by David Malouf. Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
16.99 NZD
19.99 (15% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, building a life for himself in solitude, until the day he discovers another man's footprint ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
30.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: near fine
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but ...Show more
Something Special by Iris Murdoch
26.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Something Special was previously unpublished except in a 1950s anthology and in Japan, and rediscovered after her death. It is the only short story that Iris Murdoch ever wrote for publication. Set in Dublin, against the vividly recognisable backdrop of the writer's native city in the late fifties, Some ...Show more
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
27.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage classics
Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this is the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe, and the terrible choice she was forced to make.
Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto's famous Gol ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu; Peter Harris (Translator)
18.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy and tactics. For the l ...Show more
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
A gorgeous new edition of a playful, romantic fable by one of the twentieth century's master storytellers.From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond. He walks through paths made from the twisted branches of olive, makes his bed in ...Show more