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Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
After three years on the remote tropical island of Fanua, Timothy Fortune, a missionary from London, has made little headway. The islanders show very little interest in Christianity and he has only a single convert: a boy, Lueli. As Mr Fortune's affections for both Lueli and his new island home deepen, ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | 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
Personal Writings - Albert Camus by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
26.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | 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
Repetition by Handke, Peter
24.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. Sebald Filip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never knew. All he has is two of Gregor's books: a school copy book, and ...Show more
SS-GB by Len Deighton
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A chilling alternative history of the Second World War, in which the Nazis have conquered Britain In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall... For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depress ...Show more
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings by George Orwell
30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Simone Weil: An Anthology by Simone Weil; Sian Miles (Foreword by, Editor)
30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. This anthology spans the wide range of her thought, and includes an extract from her best-known work The Need for Roots,exploring the ways in which modern society ...Show more
Single & Single by John le Carré
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside. A children's entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea. A celebrated London financier h ...Show more
Spy Story by Len Deighton
26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A classic Cold War thriller featuring computer hacking, nuclear submarines and violence on the Arctic iceComputer games run in a classified war studies centre in London. Nuclear submarines prowl beneath Arctic ice. And war games go into real time. Patrick Armstrong - possibly the same reluctant hero of ...Show more
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
28.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, "The Adventures of Augie March" includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in "Penguin Modern Classics". A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, i ...Show more
The Child, the Family, and the Outside World by D. W. Winnicott
30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest British psychoanalyst who ever lived. He writes beautifully and simply about the problems of everyday life' Alain de BottonThe paediatrician and child psychiatrist D. W. Winnicott changed the way we think about childhood by placing the parent-infant relationship at the heart of human happi ...Show more