Cautionary Tales and other Verses by Hilaire Belloc by Hilaire Belloc
$22.50 NZD
Category: Children's | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Illustrations by Posy Simmonds. The poems in this volume were written over 100 years ago, but they stand the test of time. They are still witty and humorous, very irreverent in places, and not overly dated. Be aware that there are a few words in the volume which would not vaguely pass any t ...Show more
Childhood, Youth & Exile - Being Parts I & II of My Past and Thoughts by Alexander Herzen
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
This book comprises the first two parts of Herzen's autobiography, My Past and Thoughts, one of the greatest monuments of Russian literature, comparable to the major works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev. Herzen begins with his nurse's account of Napoleon's occupation of Moscow in 1812, and continu ...Show more
Chinggis Khan: The Golden History of the Mongols by Urgunge Onon (translater)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Folio Society | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The History and the life of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan. With contemporary paintings and maps Chinggis Khan was not only a military genius, but also a great statesman and diplomat. Through a combination of armed force and diplomacy, he managed to merge the complex system of alliances which exis ...Show more
Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac
$25.00 NZD
Category: Folio Society
Le Cousin Pons is one of the last of the 94 works of Honoré de Balzac's Comédie humaine, which are in novel and short story form. Begun in 1846 as a novella or long-short story, it was envisaged as one part of a diptych, Les Parents pauvres, the other part of which was La Cousine Bette.
Early Medieval England by M.T. Clanchy
$35.00 NZD
Category: Folio Society | Reading Level: very good
This is the third volume of A History of England (1997–2002), a series of reprints of twelve classic, magisterial volumes of different periods of English history, together constituting a continuous history from ancient Roman times to the end of the 20th century.
Edwardian England by Elie Halevy
$35.00 NZD
Category: Folio Society | Reading Level: very good
This is the tenth volume of A History of England (1997–2002), a series of reprints of twelve classic, magisterial volumes of different periods of English history, together constituting a continuous history from ancient Roman times to the end of the 20th century.
England 1914-1945 by A.J.P. Taylor
$35.00 NZD
Category: Folio Society | Reading Level: very good
This is the eleventh volume of A History of England (1997–2002), a series of reprints of twelve classic, magisterial volumes of different periods of English history, together constituting a continuous history from ancient Roman times to the end of the 20th century.