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Aaron's Rod by Steven (INT) Mara (EDT); Vine D. H.; Kalnins Lawrence
$36.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Based on the only authoritative surviving manuscript of the 1921 novel, this Cambridge edition restores many passages censored from previous editions in its depiction of Everyman's quest for a meaningful existence. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature ...Show more
Complete Poems: Marianne Moore by Marianne Moore
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Father and Son - A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse
$21.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics | Reading Level: very good
Presents the record of the author's struggle to 'fashion his inner life for himself'.
French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David
$26.95 NZD
Category: Cookery | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
First published in 1962, Elizabeth David's culinary odyssey through provincial France forever changed the way we think about food. With elegant simplicity, David explores the authentic flavors and textures of time-honored cuisines from such provinces as Alsace, Provence, Brittany, and the Savoie. Full o ...Show more
Howards End by David (INT) E. M.; Lodge Forster
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics, | Reading Level: very good
In "Howard's End", E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty. The sou ...Show more
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
$31.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
"Mysteries"(1892) is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small Norwegian town one summer-and just as suddenly disappears. Nagel is a complete outsider, a sort of modern Christ treated in a spirit of near parody. He condemns the politics and thought of the ag ...Show more
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
$24.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
This generous selection of Georges Perec's non-fiction, the first to appear in English, features ingenious contemplations on the ways in which we occupy urban and domestic space, engrossing accounts of his experiences with psychoanalysis, depictions of the Paris of his childhood, thought-provoking exami ...Show more
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
$15.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
"The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories" collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey. "The Call of the Wild", London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive ...Show more
The Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Take a man waiting - waiting between the two worlds of civilian life and the army, suspended between two identities - and you have a man who, perhaps for the first time in his life, is really free. However, freedom can be a noose around a man's neck.
The Guide by R.K. Narayan
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S. | Reading Level: good
Raju's first stop after his release from prison is the barber's shop. Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju used to be India's most corrupt tourist guide - but now a peasant mistakes him for a holy man. Gradually, he begins to play the part.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. by Rainer Maria Rilke
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic f ...Show more
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