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Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexiévich; Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The haunting history of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015- A new translation based on the updated and expanded text -From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
40.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age be ...Show more
Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig
16.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At f ...Show more
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
Decline And Fall (TV Tie in) by Evelyn Waugh
24.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A tie-in edition of Waugh's first and funniest novel to accompany the new BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Sent down from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of Her Majesty's priso ...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