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Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$30.00 NZD
$34.95 (14% off)
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ...Show more
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a Welsh mountain village in 1939 and become closely involved with several unforgettable characters. Age 12+
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Change Your Life: Essential Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
"Crucefix's translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives" - Philip Pullman A new selection and translation - by an acclaimed poet - of Rilke's most essential work, the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life In these dazzling new translations by acclai ...Show more
Chernobyl Prayer - Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'A beautifully written book, it's been years since I had to look away from a page because it was just too heart-breaking to go on' - Arundhati Roy, Elle'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, Observer The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Ale ...Show more
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
Classic Horror Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Roger Luckhurst (Editor)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction." Lovecraft develope ...Show more
Collins Classics: Emma by Jane Austen
$12.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Emma vit avec son père, un vieil homme veuf et malade. Elle est belle intelligente et riche. Avec le mariage de sa gouvernante qui la quitte, Emma décide de s'occuper du mariage de nombre de ses relations. Sûre d'elle, elle est persuadée d'avoir les talents pour cette activité. Mais son inexpérience de ...Show more
Committed Writings by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. 'Letters to a German Friend' was Camus' first wartime intervention, written in 1943 in order 'to make our battle more effective'. 'Reflections on the Guill ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$23.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of ...Show more
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
$19.99 NZD
Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
For the 150th anniversary of Willa Cather's birth, and for the first time in Penguin Classics, her quietly beautiful novel of one man's life as he encounters the harsh landscape of the New Mexico desert and the people who inhabit it, with an introduction by National Book Award finalist Kali Fajardo-Anst ...Show more