Browse by category
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
First published in 1958, Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty. Encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, is a community of very mixed-up people waiting for the installation of a new bell, ...Show more
The Bell: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch; A. S. Byatt (Introduction by)
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERRY 'In th ...Show more
The Black Prince: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch; Candia McWilliam (Introduction by)
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE HANNAH 'Eve ...Show more
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
27.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A group of liberal-minded intellectuals get together in their youth to subsidize their friend, David Crimond, to write the definitive book about their political beliefs. Now, years later, there is no sign of the book, but Crimond is about to erupt into their lives again.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (#1) by John Boyne
19.99 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone.' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
17.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernising Russia. This acclaimed new Englis ...Show more
The Comedians by Graham Greene
26.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good - very good
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man are the Comedians of Graham Greene's title.
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
26.95 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good
A first-person narrative that depicts a good man's transformation into an avenging angel. A Pulitzer Prize winner. In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas
23.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Ch teau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
The Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
26.95 NZD
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
The Far Side of a Kiss by Anne Haverty
26.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics
Nineteen-year-old serving maid Sarah Walker, the victim of William Hazlitt's unfortunate obsession, is rescued from silence and obscurity in this tale, to tell her side of the story. It is a novel of romantic folly and 19th-century below-stairs pragmatism.
The Haunted House and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Rich in fictional delights, this complete collection of Woolf's shorter fiction ranges from 1906 until the month before she committed suicide in 1941. It offers a valuable insight into the writer's development, demonstrating her evolving characterizations, narrative methods and themes.