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.
England 1945-2000 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$35.00 NZD
Category: Folio Society | Reading Level: very good
This is the last 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 in the Age of Improvement by Asa Briggs
$35.00 NZD
Category: Folio Society | Reading Level: very good
This is the eighth 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.