Canon Alberic's Scrap-book by M. R. James
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Features four stories, in which figures appear in paintings, demonic voices are heard, books awaken ancient horrors - and ordinary objects and situations are transformed into inescapable nightmares. This book includes: "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book", "The Mezzotint", "The Rose Garden", and "The Stalls of ...Show more
Casting Off (#4 The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Cazalet Chronicles Ser.
The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family. Elizabeth Jane Howard's magnificent Cazalet Chronicles continues with Casting Off, the fourth novel in the saga.The Cazalet cousins are now in their twenties, trying to piece together their ...Show more
Cheri by Colette
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.This is Colette's famous love story about the romance between an older woman and a younger man.Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing ...Show more
Collins Classics - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
$9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.' Huck Finn escapes from his drunken father by ...Show more
David Copperfield (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Charles Dickens
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
Dickens' supremely timeless work on ambition and self-improvement. 'I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.' Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. ...Show more
Dear Illusion by Kingsley Amis
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'I suppose it was conceited of me. But it was fun. And I felt like getting a bit of my own back on some of the people who'd conned and flattered me into wasting all those years.' In this wry, piercing short story from one of the greatest of all British postwar writers, an ageing poet considers the value ...Show more
Dinner with Joseph Johnson - Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age by Daisy Hay
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022*'Hugely engrossing... An exciting blend of ideas and personalities' John Carey, Sunday Times'As immersive and engaging as a multi-plot Victorian novel' Times Literary Supplement'Impressive... An elegant account... Dinner with Joseph Johnson reminds us of th ...Show more
Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: VINTAGE CLASSICS
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD ' A searing masterwork of Northern European literature. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers' Susan Sontag Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So wh ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. Part of the ...Show more
Great Expectations (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Charles Dickens
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel; a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The nov ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
$9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds ...Show more
H. P. Lovecraft - Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq pays tribute to the master of horror, H. P. LovecraftPart biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France i ...Show more