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A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
$30.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a myste ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$22.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The social revolution for women's rights has made great progress in recent years. But how many casual observers - or advocates, for that matter - are aware that the roots of this movement extend deep into Western history? Even before launching the great campaign to attain universal suffrage, strong ...Show more
After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'She has a talent amounting to genius' John Updike Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Doña Ana, the woman he tried to seduce, will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Set in a rural eighteenth-century Spain ...Show more
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A tie-in edition of Fallada's best-selling WW2 novel, to accompany the major new film starring Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson. Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they ...Show more
An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An unnamed spy is entangled in Paris's seedy underworld in a rollercoaster Cold War thrillerAn unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackma ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
$24.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
$28.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
$40.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
On a seemingly normal day at the exclusive Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of great wealth and exacting tastes, makes an extraordinary £20,000 wager; he will perform an impossible feat and circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Accompanied only by his new French valet, the steady Passepart ...Show more
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world' Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring an ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
$30.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
$18.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse; subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (German: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft)) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Za ...Show more