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Dubliners by JOYCE JAMES
50.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Dubliners is a landmark in modern literature, and one of the twentieth century's finest collections of short stories. In its remarkable portrait of a city and its people, it dramatises ordinary life in the modern world. Together, the stories form one interwoven tapestry which provides a rich and subtle ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
26.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Modern Library Classics
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 (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Eliot
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Collector's Library Classics
'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life...? Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabita ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 1-3 by Edward Gibbon
120.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical scholarship and remains a remarkable fresh and powerful contribution to the interpretation of Roman history more than two hundred years after its first appea ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 4-6 by Edward Gibbon
120.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics S.
This boxed set of Volumes 4-6 (The Eastern Empire) completes the Everyman set. Volumes 1-3 (The Western Empire) were published in 1993. Even after 200 years, Gibbon's book is still an authoritative work on Roman history.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
42.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In Everyman's Library for the first time--one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, read by tens of millions of people around the world since its publication in 1947."The Diary of a Young Girl" is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl whose triumphant human ...Show more
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
General Simon Bolivar, 'the Liberator' of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Carlisle (Translator)
10.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Classics Library
In The Idiot, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become riva ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
22.00 NZD
39.95 (44% off)
Category: General fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Michael Henchard knew he deserved the pain he felt. Henchard is a handsome farm laborer. When he gets drunk at a country fair, he sells his wife and child to a sailor. The next day, ashamed by what he has done, he lets people believe that his wife has died. Thus begins a chain of events which leads Henc ...Show more
The Susan Effect by Peter Hoeg
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Susan Svendsen has a special talent: she has a unique ability to make people confide in her and tell her their innermost secrets. She has exploited that talent, and now has a prison sentence hanging over her head for punching a Bollywood actor in an Indian casino. To make matters worse, her husband is o ...Show more
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1930s Leningrad, where a failed portrait artist is tasked by Soviet censors to erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting of a dacha inside a box of images meant to be altered. The mystery behind this paint ...Show more
Walden and Other Writings by Henry Thoreau; Ralph Waldo Emerson (Introduction by); Brooks Atkinson (Editor)
23.00 NZD
26.99 (14% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Introduction by Ralph Waldo EmersonCommentary by Van Wyck Brooks and E. B. WhiteNaturalist, philosopher, champion of self-reliance and moral independence, Henry David Thoreau remains not only one of our most influential writers but also one of our most contemporary. This unique and comprehensive edition ...Show more