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Paris Was Yesterday by Janet Flanner
$10.00 NZD
Category: Media | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Witty, catty and entertaining, Paris Was Yesterday is an insider's guide to the arts scene in Paris between the warsIn 1925 Janet Flanner began writing a fortnightly 'Letter from Paris' for the nascent New Yorker. Her brief: to tell New Yorkers, under her pen name of 'Genet', what the French thought was ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .' Working as a lady's companion, our heroine's outlook is bleak until, on a trip to the south of France, she meets a handsome widower whose proposal takes her by surprise. She accepts but, whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to brooding Manderley, the n ...Show more
Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Willa Cather's twelfth and final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, is her most intense fictional engagement with political and personal conflict. Set in Cather's Virginia birthplace in 1856, the novel draws on family and local history and the escalating conflicts of the last years of slavery-conflicts ...Show more
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics 541 | Reading Level: very good
'It was odd that Harriet should always have been so fond of curates. They were so immature and always made the same kind of conversation. Now the Archdeacon was altogether different ...' Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, ...Show more
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
"Anna Maxwell Martin (Bleak House) and David Morrissey lead an outstanding cast in this rich and panoramic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the Thirties that carries remarkable echoes of our own times. South Riding is a terrific love story, but it's also a raw and real portrait of a whole community ...Show more
Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
The Aloe by Katherine Mansfield
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Linda Burnell dreams, listless and distant, whilst downstairs her mother sets in order the family's new home in the New Zealand countryside. Her vigorous and exhausting husband, Stanley, is at the office, but will return with eager and admiring eyes. Her children prepare lunch on a concrete step and her ...Show more
The Holiday by Stevie Smith
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Celia lives in a London suburb with her beloved aunt in the post-war England of 1949. Witty, fragile, and quixotic, Celia is preoccupied with love-for her friends, her colleagues, her relatives, and especially for her adored cousin Casmilus, with whom she goes on holiday to visit Uncle Heber, the vicar. ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities. Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepte ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics | Reading Level: very good
The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE
The Mandelbaum Gate: A Virago Modern Classic by Muriel Spark
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
When Barbara Vaughan's fiance joins an archaeological excursion to the Dead Sea Scrolls, she takes the opportunity to explore the Holy Land. It is 1961, and the nation of Israel is still in its infancy. For Barbara, a half-Jewish Catholic convert, this is a journey of faith, and she ignores warnings not ...Show more