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East of Eden by John Steinbeck
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ethics is taken from the highly influential series of courses Foucault taught at the College de France from 1970 to 1982. This volume also includes a selection of engaging and unusually candid interviews, as well as excerpts from Foucault's key writing on ethics.
Hiroshima by John Hersey
$26.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and ...Show more
Jane Austen: the Complete Works (Clothbound Classics) by Jane Austen; Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
$230.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Sense and Sensibility | Pride and Prejudice | Mansfield Park | Emma | Northanger Abbey | Persuasion | Love and Freindship.Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circl ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet : Little Black Classic by Rainer Maria Rilke
$10.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Top 10 Finalist on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Louisa May Alcott's heartwarming tale of the indelible bond between sisters This treasured novel, drawn in part from Louisa May Alcott's personal experience, brings to life the provincial yet abundantly full lives of the March sisters. Meg, Jo, Be ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four Clothbound Classic by George Orwell
$35.68 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
'Who controls the past controls the future- who controls the present controls the past.'Hidden away in the Records Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, w ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-four (Popular Penguin - Redacted Cover Edition) by George Orwell
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'. Hidden away in the Record Depa ...Show more
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it To the anger of her brothers, it is Alexandra who is entrusted to manage their family farm in the tough, hostile prairie of Hanover, Nebraska following the death of their father. As ...Show more
Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England ...Show more
Penguin Book Of First World War Poetry by Matthew George Walter
$21.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here ar ...Show more
Personal Writings - Albert Camus by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most personal and lyrical writing, as he reflects on his identity and childhood in Algeria and celebrates the beauty of the Mediterranean. The Wrong Side and the Right Side, Camus's first book and most openly autobiographical work, describes his early years in a work ...Show more