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The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
$41.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In "The Summer Book" Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer--its sunlight and storms--into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a t ...Show more
The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood; Paul Kennedy; Anthony Grafton (Foreword by)
$41.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: New York Review Books Classics
This study of the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648), was first published in 1938. Beginning as a conflict between Protestants and Catholics, the War gradually became transformed into a struggle to determine whether the Hapsburgs would gain control of all Germany.
The War of the Worlds by H. G Wells
$49.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
When massive, intelligent aliens from Mars touch down in Victorian England and threaten to destroy the civilized world, humanity's vaunted knowledge proves to be of little use. First published in 1898, H.G. Wells's masterpiece of speculative fiction has thrilled and delighted generations of readers, spa ...Show more
The World I Live in by Helen Keller; Roger Shattuck (Introduction by)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The World I Live In by Helen Keller Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work-one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, w ...Show more