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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
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, ...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
Ten Days That Shook The World by John Reed
26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Ten Days That Shook the World Author: John Reed Covers the October Revolution in Russia 1917, which Reed experienced first-hand, and follows many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Zinoviev and Karl Radek. Banned by Stalin. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensi ...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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by: Arthur Conan Doyle.
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