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Villette by Charlotte Brontë
$12.99 NZD
$26.00 (50% off)
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings, first for the ...Show more
Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
$32.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: VUP Classics Ser.
A tale of love, wine and angels, The Vintner's Luck was published in 1999 around the world in numerous editions and languages. It won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, where it also received the Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards, was longlisted for the ...Show more
W. B. Yeats Selected Poetry (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by W. B. Yeats; Judith John (Contribution by)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
- Marketing activity is focused on visibility in-store and online- Pre-publication mailings to special interest media, national and regional magazines, - Major focus on gift, travel, tourist sector- Mailings and promotion to Museums and galleries and local exhibitions. A stunning new edition with de ...Show more
Walden and Other Writings by Henry Thoreau; Ralph Waldo Emerson (Introduction by); Brooks Atkinson (Editor)
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Introduction by Ralph Waldo EmersonCommentary by Van Wyck Brooks and E. B. WhiteNaturalist, philosopher, champion of self-reliance and moral independence, Henry David Thoreau remains not only one of our most influential writers but also one of our most contemporary. This unique and comprehensive edition ...Show more
Waltzing Matilda by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Desmond Digby (Illustrator)
$14.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7
This ballad of the sheep-stealing swagman is known the world over. Here, with 'Banjo' Paterson's original lyrics and Freya Blackwood's stunning ochre-toned paintings, we are treated not just to the swagman's story, but to the story of the shearers' strikes of the time, of the squatter's family, and of t ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$9.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy
$27.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Classics S.
'Almost in the centre of this sky ⦠shone the huge, brilliant comet of the year 1812 â the comet which was said to portend all manner of horrors and the end of the worldâ NapoleonâÂÂs invasion of Russia forms the backdrop for TolstoyâÂÂs literary masterpiece. At its centre are Pi ...Show more
War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy
$99.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, 'a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, 'of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grie ...Show more
War and Peace : (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) by Leo Tolstoy
$34.50 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics Ser.
War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told on a panoramic scale Tolstoy's epic novel focuses the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and ...Show more
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
$27.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Illustrated Ser.
The first modern tale of alien invasion, H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential science fiction novels ever published. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Patrick Parrinder with an introduction by Brian Aldiss, author of Hothouse, and notes by Andy Sawyer.The night ...Show more
War of the Worlds / The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
$7.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened. The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to di ...Show more