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The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This early work by Olive Schreiner was originally published in 1883 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. "The Story of an African Farm" details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults, and when published caused significant controversy over i ...Show more
The Story of the Amulet (Psammead #3) by Edith Nesbit
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Psammead Series, Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Three Sisters by May Sinclair
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Trial by Franz Kafka
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K., the chief cashier of a bank, is unexpectedly arrested by two unidentified agents from an unspecified agency for an unspecified crime. Josef is not imprisoned, however, but left "free" and told to await instructions from the Committee of Affairs. Josef' ...Show more
The Unlit Lamp by Radclyffe Hall
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Vivisector by Patrick White
$8.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
"Now in an exquisite commemorative design with a cover painted by the Oscar Award-winning designer Luciana Arrighi Hurtle Duffield, a painter, is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the viv ...Show more
The Wall Jumper by Peter Schneider
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Berlin before the fall of the Wall is a city divided, yet its ordinary residents find ways to live and survive on both sides. There is Robert, teller of bar room anecdotes over beer and vodka, adjusting to a new life in the west; Pommerer, trying to outwit the system in the east; the unnamed narrator, w ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in "Penguin Modern Classics". More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, "The Waves" conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group ...Show more
The Wild Geese by Bridget Boland
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Confronting a Bronzino portrait in an English country house, a young American heiress comes face to face with her own predicament. For Milly Theale, who seems to have the world before her and at her feet, is fatally ill. Eager for life, eager for love, she embarks on her European adventure, warming to t ...Show more
The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases by Sigmund Freud
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The new "Penguin Freud", under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in "The Case Histories": "Little Hans", "The Rat Man", "The Wolf Man ...Show more
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, "The Woman In The Dunes" combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where ...Show more