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Guermantes Way - In Search of Lost Time Vol.3 (Vintage Classics) by Marcel Proust
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In "The Guermantes Way", Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises this shall ...Show more
Heart of Darkness: AND Youth by Joseph Conrad; Tim Butcher (Introduction by)
$13.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the lo ...Show more
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"This is an essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. The text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of plea ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In "Sodom and Gomorrah", Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Vintage Classic) by Jules Verne
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans desc ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
$15.00 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
Lost World, The by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The notorious Professor Challenger claims that dinosaurs still walk the earth. When the press and the scientific community ridicule him, Challenger vows to show them proof. And so he sets off for South America, accompanied by a big game hunter, a scientist and a young reporter eager to impress the woman ...Show more
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literary writing | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you... At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in ...Show more
Pharmacopoeia - A Dungeness Notebook by Derek Jarman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural World | 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
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: 3-D Vintage Classics
In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. He finds there a planet which resembles his own, but on Soror humans behave like animals, and are hunted by a civilised race of primates. Captured and sent to a research facility ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (50th Anniversary Edition) by Kurt Vonnegut
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: VINTAGE CLASSICS
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