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Wise Children by Angela Carter
$28.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora--unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day--were known as the Lucky Chances, with private lives as colorful and erratic as their careers. But ...Show more
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich
$18.95 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing | Series: Contemporary Classics Ser.
First published in 1973, this is an essential work on the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunts. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter that delves into the current fascination with and controversies about ...Show more
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Feminism | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
$40.00 NZD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Rider Classics Ser.
A beautiful collectable gift edition celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the ultimate cult feminist classic Within every woman, there lies a powerful force of energy, creativity and self-knowing: their wild woman. For centuries, she has been repressed by a male-orientated value system that trivialise ...Show more
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
$34.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This book comes with an introduction by Howard Jacobson. "Women in Love" begins one blossoming spring day in England and ends with a terrible catastrophe in the snow of the Alps. Ursula and Gudrun are very different sisters who become entangled with two friends, Rupert and Gerald, who live in their home ...Show more
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Peter William Evans
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Pedro Almodovar's 1988 black comedy-melodrama Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown established its director as one of the most exciting of European film-making talents. An often hilarious study of sexual mores, Women on the Verge has a central character, Pepa (Carmen Maura), as warm and richly draw ...Show more
Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum
$0.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
The Wonderful World of the Wizard of Oz, which the the Library of Congress named as 'America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale', is one of the great works of children's literature. The story concerns Dorothy, a young girl from Kansas, who, with her little dog Toto, is caught up in a terrify ...Show more
Wordsworth - Selected Poems (Crane Classics) by William Wordsworth
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Crane Classics Ser.
A collection of classic poems that provides an accessible introduction to William Wordsworth's poetry. Printed in a high quality, cloth edition this volume in the Crane Classics makes an attractive gift.
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
$12.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, i ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
$39.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
When Mr. Earnshaw, master of Wuthering Heights, returns from a trip with an unkempt orphan in tow, he announces that the child, Heathcliff, is now a member of the family. While young Catherine Earnshaw becomes close with Heathcliff, her older brother Hindley sinks into bitter resentment. As Catherine an ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
$34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote Pennine hills. The book has been interpreted as an historical romance, a ghostly thriller, a psychological love-story, a religious allegory and a nature poem. This is the author's only novel.