The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
$23.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the worl ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank, Anne Frank
$24.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her f ...Show more
The Secret Garden (Illustrated Novel) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$23.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Sisterhood Classics - unforgettable novels by female writers After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that ...Show more
Vurt: 30th Anniversary Edition by Jeff Noon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Hailed as the novel that reinvented cyberpunk, The 30th Anniversary edition of Jeff Noon's award winning cult classic, Vurt. Scribble and his gang, the Stash Riders, haunt the streets of an alternate Manchester, chasing the immersive highs that come from Vurt Feathers. Place a feather in your mouth and ...Show more
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
In this debut novel from acclaimed Booker Prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go), post-war Japan serves as the haunting backdrop to a subtle story of memory, suicide, and psychological trauma. Etsuko lives alone in rural England, trying to come to terms with the recent su ...Show more
Breath by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithRegarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of th ...Show more
Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton
$24.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A compelling history of Blitzkrieg: the 'lightning war' by which Hitler and his generals overwhelmed the Allied armies in Western Europe. 'Blitzkrieg' begins with a chilling portrait of Hitler's rise to power in pre-war Germany, setting the stage for the outbreak of the Second World War and his conquest ...Show more
Empire of the Sun (Collins Modern Classics) by J G Ballard
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come..Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in ...Show more
The Golden Notebook (Collins Modern Classics) by Doris Lessing
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young ch ...Show more
In the Memorial Room (Text Classics) by Janet Frame
$18.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Text Classics
In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table. Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship - a 'living memorial' to the poet Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the Fr ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
$24.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...' This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling o ...Show more