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Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Leo Tolstoy
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
TRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE. Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials fo ...Show more
Art by Simon Schama
9.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sen ...Show more
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
A true 20th-century classic: Faulkner’s famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of th ...Show more
Augustus - A Novel by John Williams
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is mu ...Show more
Austerity (Vintage Minis) by Yanis Varoufakis
10.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for ...Show more
Auto-da-fe by Elias Canetti
26.95 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
"Auto da Fe" is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti builds up the elements in Kien himself, and his personal relationships, which will lead to his destruction.
Babies: Vintage Minis by Anne Enright
9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Babies- our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the l ...Show more
Bambi - Disney Vintage by Authors Various
24.99 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Disney Vintage Collection
When Bambi is born in the middle of a thicket, the forest comes alive with chatter and excitement. Everyone wants to catch a glimpse of the young prince. It isn't long before the curious young fawn is venturing out of the thicket and into a new and wondrous world, and with the help of his friends Thumpe ...Show more
Barabbas by Lagerkvist
29.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The story of the agnostic whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus, by the Nobel Prize winning Scandinavian novelist.
Baudelaire by Claude Pichois; Jean Ziegler
27.95 NZD
28.41 (1% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Lives | Reading Level: good
Baudelaire was always the subject of myth, anecdote and scandal. In his short life, a rebel, political agitator, dandy, post-Romantic debauchee and priestlike visionary, he was also plagued by disease, poverty and censorship. Yet he remains one of the most innovative figures in poetic history.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
16.99 NZD
26.99 (37% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Vintage War | Reading Level: very good
WWI Centenary EditionWith a new introduction from the authorA novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily ...Show more