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Villette by Charlotte Brontë
12.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings, first for the ...Show more
Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: VUP Classics Ser.
A tale of love, wine and angels, The Vintner's Luck was published in 1999 around the world in numerous editions and languages. It won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, where it also received the Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards, was longlisted for the ...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
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...Show more
Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A witty romp through English Country-house life at its most delightfully absurd. At Rushwater House in West Barsetshire, Lady Emily Leslie and her family are entertaining an assortment of house guests, hangers-on, and French monarchists. Amid a perfect welter of rapturous embraces and moonlight madness, ...Show more
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
27.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Since 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends--Piglet, Owl, Tigger, and the ever doleful Eeyore--have endured as the unforgettable creations of A.A. Milne, who wrote this book for his son, Christopher Robin, and Ernest H. Shepard, who lovingly gave Pooh and his companions shape. These characters and their ...Show more
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Rider Classics Ser.
A beautiful collectable gift edition celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the ultimate cult feminist classic Within every woman, there lies a powerful force of energy, creativity and self-knowing: their wild woman. For centuries, she has been repressed by a male-orientated value system that trivialise ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Puffin Clothbound Classics) by Emily Brontë
35.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Heathcliff, an orphan, is raised by Mr Earnshaw as one of his own children. Hindley despises him but wild Cathy becomes his constant companion, and he falls deeply in love with her. But when she will not marry him, Heathcliff's terrible vengeance ruins them all. Yet still his and Cathy's love will not d ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics) by Emily Bronte
17.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Wuthering Heights" is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cru ...Show more
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
26.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Gr ...Show more