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What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
$10.00 NZD
Category: Kids Retro Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
What Katy DidKaty #1by Susan CoolidgeWhat Katy Did is an 1872 children's book written by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey under her pen name Susan Coolidge. It follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s. ...Show more
What Makes an Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Classics) by Peter Drucker
$18.99 NZD
Category: Business | Series: Harvard Business Review Classics: Ser.
In his sixty-five-year consulting career, Peter F. Drucker, widely regarded as the father of modern management, identified eight practices that can make any executive effective. Leadership is not about charisma or extroversion. It's about these practices: Effective executives ask, "What needs to be done ...Show more
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
$12.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Impassioned and iconoclastic, this powerfully influential work both criticizes ...Show more
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq; Paul Hammond (Translator); Toby Litt (Introduction by)
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."--Booklist "This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."--The Washington Post Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and ...Show more
When Rain Clouds Gather and Maru Omnibus by Bessie Head
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of leading a peaceful, purposeful life. In the village of Golema Mmidi he meets Gilbert, a charismatic Englishman who is trying to modernise farming methods to benefit the community. ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light on ...Show more
Wieland, or the Transformation by Charles Brockden Brown
$34.03 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Literary Classics Ser.
Theodore Wieland hears mysterious voices. Are these the result of delusions, ventriloquism, or divine forces? In this Gothic thriller, novelist Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) portrays a man beset by religious guilt which erupts into mania, making him an extreme danger to others. Brown's fascination ...Show more
Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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. Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more t ...Show more
William Blake: Poems (Vintage Classics) by William Blake; Patti Smith (Introduction by)
$28.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"William Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source o ...Show more
Wind in the Willows (Bath Treasury) by Kenneth Grahame
$19.98 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Bath Classics Ser.
The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie ...Show more
Wise Children by Angela Carter
$12.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.