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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
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
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography | 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.
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
On a seemingly normal day at the exclusive Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of great wealth and exacting tastes, makes an extraordinary £20,000 wager; he will perform an impossible feat and circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Accompanied only by his new French valet, the steady Passepart ...Show more
Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the creation he breathes life into: the speaking, shifting, indefinable Angela Pralini. As he has created Ange ...Show more
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment.
Don Quixote (penguin classics) by Miguel Cervantes
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck creat ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
$22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome" is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in "Penguin Classics". Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a ...Show more
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.' Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide ...Show more