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A House for Mr. Biswas by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
$32.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some s ...Show more
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
A true 20th-century classic: Faulkner’s famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of th ...Show more
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
$32.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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House of Meetings by Martin Amis
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
'The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years' Literary Review There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meeti ...Show more
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are p ...Show more
Selected Poems: W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The author has restored the early vision of some 30 of his greatest poems, generally considered to be superior to the later versions. Edited by Edward Medelson.
The Source of Self-Regard - Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulo ...Show more
The Stranger by Albert Camus
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a ...Show more
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