Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Picador Collection | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by Philipp Meyer The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account o ...Show more
Treasure Island (Legend Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Legend Classics Ser.
"Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"Sit back, relax, and enjoy this classic, beloved adventure.Treasure Island has proved unimaginably influential on our collective culture, defining our perception o ...Show more
No Logo by Naomi Klein
$23.00 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. When No Logo was first published, it became an instant bestseller and international phenome ...Show more
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
$24.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by working-class evangelists in the North of England to be one of God's elect. Passionate, headstrong and shielded by her mother's grand disapproval of a sinful world, she seems destined for life as a missionary. And then she meets Melanie. At sixtee ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of a boy known as Siddhartha from the Indian subcontinent during the time of Lord Buddha. In a very simple prose, Hesse has conveyed a very profound message for all seekers. A brahmin boy follows his heart and goes through vari ...Show more
The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
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-Smith. On sea, on land, at the edges of the colonial experience, Joseph Conrad's short stories offer a glimpse of th ...Show more
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
$27.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for- telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextr ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
$23.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: The\Sisterhood Ser.
The Sisterhood collection celebrates the best-loved classics, written by some of the best female authors in history.Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though sh ...Show more
Island by Aldous Huxley
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a paradise on earth.When cynical journalist. Will Famaby, arrive ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
$29.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
"Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to ...Show more