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To the Lighthouse by Virgina Woolf
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now, the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever. In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures t ...Show more
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankn ...Show more
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
This comedy of manners follows the decline into debauchery of two different women, one a spinster who turns into a high class prostitute and the other a woman who changes her husband for Pacifia, a Panamanian. The author has previously written "Everything is Nice" and "A Little Original Sin".
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
With an essay by Rosemary Sumner. 'Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet to star, from single stars to double stars, from double to coloured stars...' Hardy's atmospheric, moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces far beyond their control, setting ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
To begin with I wish to disclaim the possession of those high gifts of imagination and expression which would have enabled my pen to create for the reader the personality of the man who called himself, after the Russian custom, Cyril son of Isidor--Kirylo Sidorovitch--Razumov. If I have ever had these g ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by P ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S. | Reading Level: very good
A story of English society during the Napoleonic wars. Through a free-wheeling melee of brilliant improvisations sail Becky Sharp, a resourceful, engaging and amoral character, and Amelia Sedley, her less lustrous but more ambiguous foil.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way ...Show more
Victorian Verse - A Critical Anthology by George MacBeth (introduction by)
$7.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade in this story. The characters are an assortment of those inhabiting the social domain that lies between Park Lane and Bond Street.
Volpone and Other Plays by JONSON BEN
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a rich Venetian who pretends to be dying so that his despised acquaintances will flock to his bedside with extravagant gifts in ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes. At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly e ...Show more