Pleasure of Thinking by Wang Xiaobo
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time. Wang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist but his essays, too, have become ongoing bestsellers in China since their publication in the 1990s. Bringing together hi ...Show more
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. Illustrations by H.R. Millar. A fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. When Dan and Una stage a performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in a fairy ring, they are astonished by the appearance o ...Show more
Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. The second book in the Puck of Pook’s Hill series. Rewards and Fairies is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling published in 1910. The title comes from the poem “Farewell, Rewards and Fairies” by Richard Corbet. The poem is referred to by the children in the first story of the preced ...Show more
The Apple Cart: a Political Extravaganza by Bernard Shaw
$37.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
The Expressive Forest by Denys Trussell
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: Near Fine
The two worlds of art and nature are seen as strongly connected in this set of essays. Painting, music and dance are woven into writing about evolution, genetics and ecology. Love poetry is contrasted with the industrialism and the mechanist ideas of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Folio Book of Short Novels by Various Authors
$28.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. Contains 5 short stories: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, The Virgin and The Gipsy by D H Lawrence and Gigi by Colette. Illustrations by Sara Fanelli.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$26.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the eerie tale of a devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville ancestral home after Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead–and the footprints of a giant hound are found near his body. With lino-cuts by Edward Bawden.
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History by New York Times Times
$90.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years.Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publicat ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble (Editor)
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
The first edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by Sir Paul Harvey, was published in 1932, and quickly established itself as as the standard source of reference for scholars, students, and general readers alike. In 1985, under the editorship of Margaret Drabble, thetext was thoro ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
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