The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties.
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I pay very little regard!to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.' Humble and lowly, a young Fann ...Show more
Gigi by Colette
$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 'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!' This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris, her days are filled with cigars, lobster, l ...Show more
The Needle's Eye by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
An honest and moving portrait of the everyday messiness of life, and the complications of love.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Marquez 2014
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera. 'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.' Fifty-one ...Show more
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate; Julian Fellowes (Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual, the gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowsh ...Show more
About Love by Anton Chekhov
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Widely considered to be one of greatest ever writers of the form, Anton Chekhov's short stories offer unforgettable character, crystalline expression, and a beautiful, quiet uncertainty. Collected here are five of his very best tales- 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'The House with the Mezzanine', and t ...Show more
The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon
$21.51 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
'Quite simply a masterpiece' John Banville'I've just found a stranger in my house. In a bed on the second floor. He was dying when I got there. You're going to have to deal with it'Hector Loursat has been a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years ago. Shut away in his dilapidated mansion ...Show more
Solar by Ian McEwan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm'Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage ...Show more
Women in Love by D H Lawrence
$15.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a wh ...Show more
Murder On The Orient Express (Poirot #10) by Agatha Christie
$22.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Poirot Ser.
A facsimile first edition hardback of Poirot's most famous book, published to mark the 80th anniversary of his first appearance. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one ...Show more
The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
In Call of the Wild, Buck lives as a pampered house dog in California. He eats well, sleeps when he wants, and is treated with affection by his owners--that is, until he is abducted by thieves and pressed into service as a sled dog for the Klondike Gold Rush. Mistreated by a succession of abusive owners ...Show more