The Oresteia by Aeschylus
$32.50 NZD
Category: Folio Society | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Folio Society First Impression. The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father’s murder. Translated by Robert Fagles. Drawings by Lauren ...Show more
The Pick of Punch by Selected and Introduced by Miles Kington
$17.50 NZD
Category: Folio Society
Second printing 1999.
The Plums of P. G. Wodehouse by P. G. Wodehouse
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Second printing 1998. Illustrations by Paul Cox. A selection of ‘plums’ chosen by Joe Whitlock Blundell from the writings of P. G. Wodehouse. Features entire stories such as A Crime Wave at Blandings and Uncle Fred Flits By and seven other, plus a selection of short excepts and quotes from ...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
The Red Badge of Courage
$20.00 NZD
Category: Folio Society | Reading Level: very good
Crane’s affecting novel of a young soldiers experiences in the American Civil War, renowned for its “psychological portrayal of fear”. The story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a “red badge of coura ...Show more
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
$35.00 NZD
Category: Folio Society | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Second printing. Introduced by Hilary Mantel. A timeless novel of adventure, intrigue, and romance is sparked by one man's defiance in the face of authority. Orczy became famous in 1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel (originally a play co-written with her husband). Its backg ...Show more
The Second World War by Winston S. Churchill
$300.00 NZD
Category: World War II
Second hand, Folio Society
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
The Shorter Pepys by Robert Latham (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. This thousand-page book contains one third of the text of Samuel Pepys’s diary, along with maps, a chronology, a glossary of archaic words, and an unusually helpful index. The diary, written in commercial short-hand, spans the 1660s, a decade in which power passed from the Roundheads to Cha ...Show more
The Small House At Allington by Anthony Trollope
$30.00 NZD
Category: Folio Society | Reading Level: very good
Fifth book in the Chronicles of Barchester. It enjoyed a revival in popularity in the early 1990s when the British prime minister, John Major, declared it as his favourite book. Written when Trollope was at the height of his popularity, The Small House at Allington contains his most admired heroine in L ...Show more
The Story of the Middle Ages (Set)
$150.00 NZD
Category: Folio Society | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. A set in five volumes: The Birth of the Middle Ages; The Crucible of the Middle Ages; The Making of the Middle Ages; The High Middle Ages; The Waning of the Middle Ages. Colour frontispiece to each volume and many other illustrations and maps.Red and Green decorated cloth in slipcase.