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Arabian Nights by Muhsin Mahdi (Editor); Husain Haddawy (Translator)
$18.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The Sultan's new wife knows that her husband has executed all her predecessors. She therefore decides to arouse his curiosity by telling him a series of stories. In order to learn the end of each tale, the Sultan keeps her alive and becomes so infatuated that he agrees to let her live.
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
$27.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
'she felt herself standing at the game of life with many eyes upon her, daring everything to win much'Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when she marries a sadistic aristocrat for his money. Beautiful, neurotic, and self-centred, Gwendolen is trapped in an increasingly destructive relationship, and ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr; Robert Stone (Introduction by)
$18.00 NZD
Category: World Military History | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the wa ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
$42.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her p ...Show more
On War by Klaus Von Clausewitz; Michael Howard (Editor); Peter Paret (Editor)
$27.50 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
First published in 1832, this study is a Western attempt to understand war, in terms of its internal dynamics, and its use as an instrument of policy. This new edition includes a commentary by Bernard Brodie, a former Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by H. T. (TRN) Aleksandr Isaevich; Willetts Solzhenitsyn
$45.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes. Continuing the tradition of the great nineteenth-century Russian novelist ...Show more
Persuasion (Everyman's Library) by Jane Austen
$22.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.' Written at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Persuasion is a tale of love, hear ...Show more
Tale Of Genji, The Everyman's Library by Murasaki Shikibu; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The Tale of Genji By Murasaki Shikibu In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone. P ...Show more
The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
$32.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Available together in one volume for the first time, the three novels of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling Border Trilogy constitute a genuine American epic. Beginning with All the Pretty Horses and continuing through The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, McCarthy chronicles the lives ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 1-3 by Edward Gibbon
$135.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical scholarship and remains a remarkable fresh and powerful contribution to the interpretation of Roman history more than two hundred years after its first appea ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
$22.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Michael Henchard knew he deserved the pain he felt. Henchard is a handsome farm laborer. When he gets drunk at a country fair, he sells his wife and child to a sailor. The next day, ashamed by what he has done, he lets people believe that his wife has died. Thus begins a chain of events which leads Henc ...Show more
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
$16.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pain and darkness of the Holocaust and its aftermath, Levi reflects on the dif ...Show more