| Author: | John Fowles |
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Fiction |
| Series: | Vintage Classics Ser. |
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables his to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collector's ... read more
| Author: | Richard Yates |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009. |
"Film opens in NZ - 22 January 2009 - major release Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that... read more
| Author: | Joseph Conrad; Tim Butcher (Introduction by) |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Series: | Vintage Classics Ser. |
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his positi... read more
| Author: | Franz Kafka; Edwin Muir (Translator); Adam Thirlwell (Introduction by) |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Series: | Vintage Classics Ser. |
This volume contains some of Kafka's most famous stories, including Metamorphosis, Investigations of a Dog and In the Penal Settlement.
| Author: | Christopher Isherwood; Christopher Isherwood |
| Category: |
Fiction |
MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINSThe first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquant, witty and oblique, ... read more
| Author: | Ernest Hemingway |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Series: | Vintage Classics Ser. |
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comrades... read more
| Author: | Jon Scieszka |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Series: | Frank Einstein |
In the third book in the New York Times bestselling series, Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity), and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and arti... read more
| Author: | Jon Scieszka |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Series: | Frank Einstein |
New York Times Bestseller "Huge laughs and great science--the kind of smart, funny stuff that makes Jon Scieszka a legend." --Mac Barnett, author of Battle Bunny and The Terrible Two
More clever science experiments, funny jokes, and robot hijinks await read... read more
| Author: | Jon Scieszka |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Series: | Frank Einstein |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2015. |
Frank Einstein loves to tinker, build and take things apart. He loves to observe, hypothesise, experiment and invent. Frank Einstein is a kid genius who loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagin... read more
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| Author: | Hans Eijkelboom |
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Hans Eijkelboom: People of the Twenty‐First Century is an enormous and completely fascinating collection of "anti‐sartorial" photographs of street life by the Dutch conceptual artist/street photographer. From Amsterdam to New York and Paris to Shanghai, these ... read more
| Author: | Gian Carlo Calza |
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This big and beautiful book presents a comprehensive survey of the work of one of Japan's greatest and most influential artists, together with a collection of essays that focus on a key aspects of the master's career. The book opens with an introductory essay by Gian Carlo Calza presen... read more
