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Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
$24.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
"'How are you?' said Mathieu. 'I thought you were dead.'" Following a Parisian philosophy teacher through the caf s and bars of Montparnasse over two days in the sweltering summer of 1938, Sartre's searing novel explores what it truly means to be free.
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
$17.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is much like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, s ...Show more
Laughter in the Dark by Vladímir Nabokov
$24.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic nov ...Show more
Metamorphosis (Penguin pocket classics) by Franz Kafka
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. Samsa must learn to ...Show more
Out of Africa (Penguin pocket classics) by Isak Dinesen; Karen Blixen
$17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life.'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.'From the moment Karen Blixen arriv ...Show more
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
The memoir widely viewed as the best account ever written of fighting in WW1 A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patrioti ...Show more
The Call Of Cthulhu: Penguin Pocket Classics by H. P. Lovecraft
$17.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
* Book: The Call of Cthulhu * Biography * Bibliography "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu h ...Show more
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin pocket classics) by Rainer Maria Rilke
$17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
'There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.'This dreamlike meditation on being young and alone in Paris is a feverish work of nerves, angst and sublime beauty from one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.A new series of twenty distinctive, unf ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius; Robert Graves (Translator)
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, in 121. Considered highly significant in antiquity, The Twelve Caesars ha ...Show more
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