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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powe ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
$9.99 NZD
$31.00 (67% off)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that lead to the great crash of 1929No account of the financial insanity of 1929 has been issued in a form at once so readable, so humorous, and so carefully authenticated as this classic book. J. ...Show more
The Great Science Fiction: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories by H. G. Wells
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's' Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. ...Show more
The Heat's On by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave D ...Show more
The Last Demon by Isaac Bashevis Singer
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I, a demon, bear witness that there are no more demons left. Why demons, when man himself is a demon? Why persuade to evil someone who is already convinced? I am the last of the persuaders'. Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1978, is best-remembered for his humane and moving short stori ...Show more
The Machine Stops by E M Forster
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that.' E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In "The ...Show more
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guervara
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycleAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcyc ...Show more
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forev ...Show more
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, explor ...Show more
The Real Cool Killers by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday Times The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night's just beginning for ...Show more
The Samurai by Shusaku Endo
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1613 the missionary Father Pedro Velasco's dream comes true. For the first time, the Japanese are going to cross the Pacific Ocean. And he is going with them. As he sets sail with a group of Samurai, for Mexico, then Spain and finally Rome, his zealous hope is that, by opening up relations with the w ...Show more