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All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest European prose writers' - Philip Roth. In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Observed Trains) bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, ten ...Show more
Allen Ginsberg Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. Presented chronologically, it sets Ginsberg's verse against the story of his extraordinary life: from his most famous land ...Show more
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between ...Show more
Americana by Don Delillo
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York ...Show more
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. ...Show more
An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro makes a connection that will change her life. Ulisses, a mysterious man, has penetrated her soul and turned her inside out. This is a devastating novel of the interior, of a woman yearning to love, of the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, of the cosm ...Show more
An Autobiography: Or The Story Of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
$31.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in two volumes in 1927 and 1929, with a second edition in 1940, this is Gandhi's account of his early spiritual progress towards truth and the circumstances of his life that led him to a practical application of the principles of conduct for which he was revered.
An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An unnamed spy is entangled in Paris's seedy underworld in a rollercoaster Cold War thrillerAn unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackma ...Show more
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
$26.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A wonderful, unsparing epic ... an intimate human story of loss and love' New Statesman, Books of the Year The epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature An extraordinary Russian masterpiece, And Quiet Flows the Don follows the turbulent fortu ...Show more
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The novel tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks nonetheless on a search to rediscover his grandmother, no long dead ...Show more
Animal Farm: The Illustrated Edition by George Orwell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
2015 is the 70th anniversary of Animal Farm. To commemorate this important anniversary, Penguin Classics is republishing the classic illustrated Animal Farm by Joy Batchelor and John Halas. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they ...Show more
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly under threat - from his rivals in the tribe, from those in the white government and even from his own family. Yet he still feels he must be untouchable - su ...Show more