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French and Germans, Germans and French - A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 by Richard Cobb
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The noted historian Richard Cobb presents an engaging synthesis of research, combined with highly original observations and analyses of the war years in France. The reader is given access to a unique private chronicle of the relations between occupants and occup s, which provides the "I was there" under ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more
K. by Roberto Calasso
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen ...Show more
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Bill ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
$9.99 NZD
$26.00 (61% off)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Horace Rumpole, the old boy committed to defending the apparently indefensible, trusting of a jury, scornful of the law's pomposities, appears here in a new edition of the 1978 iconic Rumpole debut.This volume collects the much-loved stories 'Rumpole and the Younger Generation', 'Rumpole and the Alterna ...Show more
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings by George Orwell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The best of Orwell's journalism, published in one volume for the first time, selected by leading expert Peter Davison. Celebrated for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best journalists and commentators. Confronting social, political and moral dilemmas head-on, he was fearless in his ...Show more
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For bet ...Show more
The Adulterous Woman by Albert Camus
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.' Camus' writing confronts the great philosophical dilemmas of our time with piercing clarity. These three powerful and evocative stories are ...Show more
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
$26.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more
The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs. One of the Beat Generation's most renowned poets and writers, Allen Gi ...Show more
The Expelled by Samuel Beckett
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.' Remorseless and unnerving, but leavened with black humour and the brilliance of his writing, Beckett's work is some of the mo ...Show more