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 Two Heroines of Plumplington and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The Two Heroines Of Plumplington are the only daughters of two elderly gentlemen, well-known and well-respected in Plumplington. Unfortunately both young ladies have given their hearts to young men of whom their fathers disapprove. The fathers are stern, their daughters stubborn, and a merr ...Show more
The Waverley Novels (13 Volumes) by Sir Walter Scott, edited by Rev. P. Hately Waddell
$400.00 NZD
Category: Book Sets | Series: 26 volumes bound in 13
Three Short Novels from Papua New Guinea by Mike Greicus(ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. It contains "The Fires of Dawn", "The Flight of a Villager" and "Tali", novels of three new writers: Benjamin Umba, August Kituai, and Jim Baital, who are struggling to cope with the cultural confusion of an emerging nation.
Touchstones by Mario Vargas Llosa
$27.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. "Touchstones" includes his readings of major twentieth-century novels, from "Heart of Darkness" to "The Tin Drum and Herzog" and major works by Heming ...Show more