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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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