The Adventure of the Speckled Band and other stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
$5.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Centaur by John Updike
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A triumph of love and art." THE WASHINGTON POST In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with h ...Show more
His Last Bow - Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good
Unusual for a Sherlock Holmes story, "His Last Bow" is a short spy story as opposed to a detective-centered mystery. It is also told in the third person, as opposed to the first. No one is entirely sure why. However, it's said that the story could have been designed to boost public morale during the Fir ...Show more
The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble
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Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A woman tries to uncover the mysterious fate of a friend in Cambodia in this "very smart" and suspenseful novel (The New York Times Book Review). Liz Headleand is one of London's best-known and most prominent psychiatrists. One day she arrives at work to find a mysterious package, postmarked from Camb ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
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Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many langua ...Show more
The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O\'Brian
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian
$5.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Aubrey-Maturin | Reading Level: good
The War of 1812 continues, and Captain Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to wreak havoc with the British whaling trade. Meanwhile, Stephen Maturin has a mission of his own in the world of secret intelligence and ...Show more
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
$4.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The romantic forested landscape of southwest Germany is the setting for the birth of a friendship that will haunt sixteen-year-old Hans Schwarz for the rest of his life. Hans is Jewish, the son of a doctor who is confident that the rise of the Nazis is only 'a temporary illness' afflicting his beloved c ...Show more