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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.
Dead Souls by Nikolay Gogol
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Hey, you with the beard!' A coiffured con man travels across Russia's rural backwaters, buying the souls of dead serfs from their owners to make his fortune, in Gogol's exuberant, bravura masterwork: the greatest comedy in Russian literature.
Don't Look Now (Pocket Penguin) by Daphne Du Maurier
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Now, ill-lit, almost in darkness, the windows of the houses shuttered, the water dank, the scene appeared altogether different, neglected, poor, and the long narrow boots moored to the slippery steps of cellar entrances looked like coffins.' A slow-burning masterpiece of horror recounting a grieving co ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
$24.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Pocket Penguins
"Me have that golden gown!" A blameless girl and her monstrous relatives clash over love and money in Balzac's matchless portrayal of greed in a French provincial town.
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
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-En
$24.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Pocket Penguins
'"After all," he said, "you're only a monkey spirit. How can you delude yourself into supposing that you can seize the Jade Emperor's throne?"' Featuring the adventures of the irrepressible, cloud-riding trickster Monkey and his band of unruly disciples, this centuries-old Chinese fantasy blends beauty ...Show more
My Childhood (Penguin pocket classics) by Maxim Gorky
$17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'I could hear the frost crackling outside. Greenish moonbeams shone through windows covered with patterns of ice...' One of the most moving accounts of being a boy ever written, My Childhood is a both wonderful and harrowing memoir - and one of the great works of Russian literature. This is a new series ...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
Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London.' Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'.
Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself - not to Japan, not to anything' A shy, unworldly young student has his eyes opened to Tokyo's bustling metropolis, in this delicate, bitter-sweet work of innocence and experience from Japan's foremost modern novelist. Ten ...Show more