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A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics 547 | Reading Level: very good
Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less. Her interest wanders to the nearby Ang ...Show more
A Little Tea, A Little Chat by Christina Stead
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. His chief hobbies are moneymaking and seduction; he is always on the hunt for the next woman to beguile and betray. That is, until he meets his match: Barbara, the 'blondine', a woman he cannot b ...Show more
A Woman in Berlin - Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945 by Anonymous; Antony Beevor (Introduction)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
* A startling account of a German survivor of the Second World War. 'One of the most important personal accounts ever written about the effects of war and defeat' Antony Beevor 'One of the most extraordinary and moving books I have ever read' Antonia Fraser
All Men Are Mortal by Simone De Beauvoir
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
All over the world, people are claiming their rights. Are these claims prompted by similar values and aspirations? And even if human rights are universal, what are the consequences of claiming them in different historical, cultural and material realities? The diversity of African countries considered in ...Show more
All the Dogs of My Life by Elizabeth von Arnim
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From Bijou, her very first dog, to Chunkie and Knobbie, her favourite, and last, canine companions, Elizabeth von Arnim takes us through the complex journey of her life. From her Pomeranian idyll (encapsulated in her first novel, Elizabeth and Her German Garden) to less happy days in London following th ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century ... A journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing fiction. It is a heroic story, and told with such engaging tone, humorous perspective and imaginative power' Micha ...Show more
Beyond the Glass by Antonia White; Carmen Callil (Introduction by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world ...Show more
Blood on the Dining-Room Floor by Gertrude Stein
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A series of local crimes inspired this attempt by the author to relieve her writer's block. A droll detective novel, its central mystery involves rediscovering the path to creativity. Although remembered mostly for her audacious bestseller, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein was a uniq ...Show more
Collages by Anais Nin
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
"Collages began with an image which had haunted me. A friend, Renate, had told me about her trip to Vienna where she was born, and of her childhood relationships to statues. She told me stories of her childhood, her relationship to her father, her first love. I begin the novel with: Vienna was the city ...Show more
Complete Short Stories by Elizabeth Taylor
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Elizabeth Taylor, highly acclaimed author of classic novels such as Angel, A Game of Hide and Seek and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, is also renowned for her powerful, acutely observed stories. Here for the first time, the stories - including some only recently rediscovered - are collected in one volume ...Show more
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute - Stories by Grace Paley
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture the itch of the city, love between parents and children and the cutting edge of combat (Lis Harris, The New ...Show more
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Set in rural, working-class New England, Ethan Frome is a man in a loveless marriage who faces the temptation of illicit passion with another woman. Revealed through the narrator's overnight visit with the mysterious figure, himself, Ethan Frome's story depicts the desperation of a man torn between his ...Show more