Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. The second book in the Puck of Pook’s Hill series. Rewards and Fairies is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling published in 1910. The title comes from the poem “Farewell, Rewards and Fairies” by Richard Corbet. The poem is referred to by the children in the first story of the preced ...Show more
Bed 29 and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. A superb collection of twenty-six short stories. English translation by Donald Adamson. Illustrated by Helen Smithson.
The Two Heroines of Plumplington and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The Two Heroines Of Plumplington are the only daughters of two elderly gentlemen, well-known and well-respected in Plumplington. Unfortunately both young ladies have given their hearts to young men of whom their fathers disapprove. The fathers are stern, their daughters stubborn, and a merr ...Show more
Nell
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Nell is born to a new century, her early life forged in the freedoms of the NZ high country. Her own freedom is tested: by family expectation, by husband Herb’s pride, by the rigours of family life on a Maniototo sheep station. Nell dares to step beyond the bounds; she revels and stumbles in love; encou ...Show more
Peter Pan (Signature Classics) by J. M. Barrie
$17.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this highly anticipated edition of Peter Pan.The Darling children's lives take an extraordinary turn when Peter Pan loses his shadow in their nursery. . .'Second to the right ...Show more
Hours in a Library Three Volume Set by Leslie Stephen
$75.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Complete in three volumes. Sir Leslie Stephen was an English author, critic and mountaineer, father to Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Stephen served as editor to several publications on mountaineering whilst also writing volumes of philosophical, historical and biographical importance. Ho ...Show more
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. Illustrations by H.R. Millar. A fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. When Dan and Una stage a performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in a fairy ring, they are astonished by the appearance o ...Show more
My Life and Hard Times and Other Observations by James Thurber
$21.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Contents: Introduction. My Life and Hard Times (complete) 1933. From The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying trapexe 1935. From let Your Mind Alone 1937. From Fables For Our Time 1940. From My World and Welcome To it 1942. From The Thurber Carnival 1945. From The Beast in Me and other Animals 194 ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
$55.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand.1978 first edition. Lino-cuts by Peter Pendry. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Written By Himself with a Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts and Other Evidence By the Editor. Set chiefly in strife-ridden 18th. century Scotland, this book tells the story of a young ...Show more
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
$47.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. First edition. Les Enfants Terribles is a 1929 novel by Jean Cocteau. It concerns two siblings, Elisabeth and Paul, who isolate themselves from the world as they grow up, an isolation which is shattered by the stresses of their adolescence. Translation by Rosamond Lehmann. Contains the com ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
$27.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Superbly illustrated in b/w by Georg Grosz. The novel, a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood’s time in 1930s Berlin, describes pre-Nazi Germany and the people he met. It is episodic, dealing with a large cast over a period of several years from late 1930 to early 1933. It is written a ...Show more
The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant
$28.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. Translated by William Gillis. Ship of Fools is a book of satire originally published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by Sebastian Brant, a conservative German theologian. In a prologue, 112 brief satires, and an epilogue, all illustrated with woodcuts, the book is notable for including the f ...Show more