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A Case of Knives by Candia McWilliam
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
______________________SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD______________________'A first novel of formidable accomplishment ... a debut of the highest promise' - Sunday Times'No new writer can make a more stunning entrance than Candia McWilliam' - Daily Mai ...Show more
Absalom Absalom!
$16.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Modern Library 241 | Reading Level: very good
Basic Works of Aristotle by Aristotle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
This book is edited by Richard McKeon. It contains an introduction by CD Reeve.
Complete Poems of John Keats by John Keats
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
Presents all of the English poet's verse, including his sonnets and odes, the allegorical romance "Endymion," and the five-act poetic tragedy "Otho the Great".
Empire by Gore Vidal
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
"Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle,Empireis a wonderfully vivid documentary drama." —The New York Times Book Review In this extraordinarily powerful epic ...Show more
Expensive People by Joyce Carol Oates
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America's affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first ...Show more
Fierce Pajamas by David Remnick
$14.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
When Harold Ross founded "The New Yorker" in 1925, he called it a "comic weekly." And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder's description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era--among them Robert Benchley, D ...Show more
Great Exploration Hoaxes by David Roberts
$10.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Modern Library
An investigation of ten famous exploration hoaxes, from Sebastian Cabot's disputed North American voyage of 1508-09 to Donald Crowhurst's desperate, suicidal bid to win the single-handed sailboat circumnavigation race in 1968.
King Kong by WALLACE, EDGAR
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Introduction by Greg Bear Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz The giant prehistoric gorilla King Kong is one of the most recognized images in our culture. So great is the mighty Kong's hold on the popular imagination that his story-a gripping yarn of man versus nature, coupled with a fantastical update of the ...Show more
Life Stories - Profiles from The New Yorker by David Remnick
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
a Dazzling collection of biographical profiles of some of the most important and most captivating figures of our century.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
$12.00 NZD
Category: Latin Literature | Series: Modern Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
Middlemarch by George Eliot
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Modern Library Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A masterful tale of a small town in the English midlands, and the hopes, regrets, and unrealized dreams of those who make it their home. In Middlemarch, George Eliot created a landmark of English literature as she incisively portrayed the drama and folly found in even the most simple and bucolic of prec ...Show more