Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
$9.99 NZD
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
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
Carry on, Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) by P. G. Wodehouse
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Jeeves & Wooster
This is a classic collection of Jeeves and Wooster stories from P.G. Wodehouse, the great comic writer of the 20th century. In his new role as valet to Bertie Wooster, Jeeves' first duty is to create a miracle hangover cure. From that moment, the partnership that is Jeeves and Wooster never looks back.. ...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
Catch-22 (Vintage Loves Film Classic) by Joseph Heller
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Loves Film Classic
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, "Catch-22" is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him.
Charles Dickens: Great Illustrated Novels: "Great Expectations", "David Copperfield", "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
$39.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library Omnibus Editions
"David Copperfield" was Dickens' 'favourite child', and is a novel of personal development with richly comic as well as deeply poignant moments. "Great Expectations" also traces the progress of a young man through life but, as a novel of the author's maturity, is expressed in subtler shades of nuance. " ...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
Chess by Stefan Zweig
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win.
Children on Their Birthdays by Truman Capote
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'...We were sitting on the porch, tutti-frutti melting on our plates, when suddenly, just as we were wishing that something would happen, something did; for out of the red road dust appeared Miss Bobbit.' Truman Capote's bewitching short stories, many of which were set in the Deep South of his youth, ar ...Show more
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
$27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
This title is presented with an Introduction by Alexander Mccall Smith. This is a glorious collection of stories from the author of "Cold Comfort Farm". The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas: Adam L ...Show more