Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature by Paul Sharrad
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: near fine
Albert Wendt is by far the most prolific and most influential contemporary Pacific Island writer. He has written four books of poetry, three collections of short stories, five novels and has edited three anthologies of Pacific writing. This is the first extended study of this writer.
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.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia Volumes 1-10 (Set) by edited by David Patrick & William Geddie
$240.00 NZD
Category: Literature
Chambers's Encyclopaedia Volumes 1-10 (Set)
$275.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Ten Volumes
Coleridge - Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Mo ...Show more
Dictionary of Literary Characters by Chambers
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters provides an invaluable guide to the wealth of characters created by writers in English, with over 6,500 entries from novels, plays, and poetry--from the Wife of Bath to Bertie Wooster, and Tom Sawyer to Harry Potter. Features include concise biographies of the ...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
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
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
Malleus Maleficarum: The Hammer of Witchcraft by Jacobus Sprenger & Heinrich Kramer
$75.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. First edition. The Hammer of Witchcraft. Treatise on the prosecution of witches, written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, a German Catholic clergyman. The book was first published in Speyer, Germany, in 1487. Jacob Sprenger is also often attributed as an author. Translated by Montague Summers an ...Show more
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. First edition. A historical novel about an obscure young Englishman who watches, without understanding, the last years of the Weimar Republic. Politics and sex create the atmosphere. Superbly Illustrated by Beryl Cook.
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