Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Seais edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress An ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...Show more
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native So ...Show more
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: The Sisterhood
Celebrating International Women's Day with the original sisterhood Little Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in his lonely hut high in the Alps and she quickly learns to love her new life. But her strict aunt decides to send her away again to live in the town. Heidi cannot bear being away from the ...Show more
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation."--from The Alchemist The Alchemist tells the story of Santiago, the young Andalusian shepherd who dreams of buried treasure in Egypt and embarks upon a challenging journey to find it. With all the simplicity and symbolic richness of a fable, C ...Show more
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go Shortlisted for the Booker Prize England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious d ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables (The Sisterhood) by L. M. Montgomery
$23.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: The Sisterhood
Celebrate International Women's Day with the original sisterhood Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. They are waiting for an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a skinny, red-haired girl turns up instead. Feisty and full of spirit, Anne Shirley charms her way into ...Show more
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
$24.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war?. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier? experiencing th ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (The Sisterhood) by Jane Austen
$23.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: The Sisterhood
Celebrate International Women's Day with the original sisterhood When two rich young gentlemen move to town, they don't go unnoticed - especially when Mrs Bennett vows to have one of her five daughters marry into their fortunes. But love, as Jane and Elizabeth Bennett soon discover, is rarely straightfo ...Show more
Rumpole's Return by John Mortimer
$21.50 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
'A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting faith in mankind' Sunday TimesHorace Rumpole - the rascally, Wordsworth-quoting Old Bailey hack - should be enjoying his retirement. Soaking unhappily in the Florida sun with his wife, Hilda (She Who Must Be Obeyed), it is safely assumed by all that R ...Show more