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1984 by George Orwell
$46.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Contemporary classics | Reading Level: good
Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal ...Show more
Catch 22 by Heller
$56.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Catch-22" is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in a ...Show more
Dancing Girls by Margaret Atwood
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Contemporary classics
Features pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people or are they? This collection of short stories maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.
Envy and Gratitude: And Other Works, 1946-1963 by Melanie Klein
$38.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Contemporary Classics Ser.
This text collects Melaine Klein's writings from 1946 until her death in 1960, including two papers published posthumously. This was her last major work which introduces her theory of primary envy.
Harold Pinter: Plays 3 by Harold Pinter
$39.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Faber Contemporary Classics
Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre. ...Show more
Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Contemporary Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Jess' pick... (Fiction) Elizabeth, monstrous yet pitiable; Nate, her husband, a patchwork man, gentle, disillusioned; Lesje, a young woman at the natural history museum, for whom dinosaurs are as important as men. These are three people in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love.
Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
$49.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in all, "Lolita" is filled with awe and exhilaration, along ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$69.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Probably Garcma Marquez's finest and most famous work. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendma family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettable men and women, and with a trut ...Show more
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success of Lolit ...Show more
The Bookshop / The Gate of Angels / The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Publisher's description: The Bookshop is a postwar tragicomedy of manners, set in an isolated seaside town where an enterprising woman opens a bookstore only to find it beset by poltergeists, weather, and hostile townsfolk. The Gate of Angels is an Edwardian romance within a novel of ideas: a young doct ...Show more
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