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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
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester B. Himes
26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest' The New York Times A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when thieves with machine guns steal the proceeds - and send one man's brain matter flyin ...Show more
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickl ...Show more
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Two French priests, friends since childhood, are sent to the newly created diocese of New Mexico. Life there is hard and frequently dangerous. Journeys between parishes are beset by the perils of bandits and storms. The people do not always want to hear the priests' message. But through their many years ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck creat ...Show more
England Your England by George Orwell
7.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England Your England' is one of the most compelling and insightful portraits of the nation ever written. Shot through with Orwell's deeply felt sense of patriotism and love for his homeland, the essay is at the same time unfailingly clear-eyed about the nation's failings- entrenched social inequality, a ...Show more
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
33.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Modern Classics edition of includes an introduction by Seamus Deane'riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from ...Show more
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A novel of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor: A New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award winner, and "one of the great books of our time" (Newsday). At the Pearl Harbor army base in 1941, Robert E. Lee Prewitt is Uncle Sam's finest bugler. A career soldier with no patience for army poli ...Show more
George Orwell: A Life in Letters by George Orwell
55.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy to snatched glimpses of his family life: his son Richard's developing teeth, the death of his wife Eileen, and his own illness. Candid portraits of Barcelona during the Spanish Civi ...Show more
History Of The Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
48.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book presents, from the pers ...Show more
London Match by Len Deighton
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Bernard Samson becomes a pawn in a game played by the Kremlin in the final instalment of the Game, Set and Match trilogyLong-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even bigger. For he learns that t ...Show more
Mexico Set by Len Deighton
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The second novel in the Game, Set and Match trilogy is a gripping study in the art of spy enrolmentWorld-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to aid the defection of a KGB agent to the West, he has a chance to prove his worth. Instead he is t ...Show more