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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
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
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 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
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
$54.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, "To the Lighthouse "is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universa ...Show more
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