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The Passion Of New Eve by Angela Carter
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics | Reading Level: very good
'I know nothing. I am a tabula erasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself...New York has become the City of Dreadful ...Show more
The People with the Dogs by Christina Stead
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The People with the Dogs, first published in 1952, is set in America, and has been described as Christina Stead's 'most amiable novel and one of her least appreciated.' In Edward Massine it also boasts one of her 'most attractive male characters' who defines his condition appealingly as a state of 'unde ...Show more
The Rendezvous and Other Stories by Dapne Du Maurier
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The stories in this collection, some written before du Maurier published her first novel, reflect many human emotions: romance, disenchantment, fantasy, nostalgia, ambition, irony, the longing for adventure. Each of them is based on something observed, something overheard, and all will provide pleasure ...Show more
The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier
$8.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
By chance, two men - one English, the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Their physical resemblance is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John, the Englishman, falls into a drunken stupour. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wa ...Show more
The Semi-Attached Couple & the Semi-Detached House by Emily Eden
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
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 Unlit Lamp by Radclyffe Hall
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Wild Geese by Bridget Boland
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
It is 1946 and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the war. Banished by her beautiful, indolent mother to England, Barbary Deniston is thrown into the care of her distinguished father and conventional stepmother. Having grown up in the sunshine of Provence, allowed to run wild ...Show more
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more