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Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche
$9.95 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
Why I Am so Clever by Friedrich Nietzsche
$10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 102 | Reading Level: very good
Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether? Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness.
Why I Write by George Orwell
$9.95 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today's era of spin.
Why Vegan? (Penguin Great Ideas) by Peter Singer
$13.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?' One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human tyranny over animals is a wrong comparable to racism ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
$26.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Essentials
Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now... Now they have taken everything away. What a ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Seais edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress An ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light on ...Show more
William III & Mary II: Partners in Revolution by Jonathan Keates
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Monarchs
William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain's only ever 'joint monarchs') changed the course of the entire country's history, coming to power through a coup (which involved Mary betraying her own father), reestablishing parliament on a new footing and, through commiting Britain to fighting ...Show more
William III and Mary II (Penguin Monarchs) by Jonathan Keates
$24.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Monarchs Ser.
'The couple's fate was to become a celebrity icon, their crowned likenesses adorning everything from earthenware dishes, fans and playing cards to banners, song sheets and medals'William III and Mary II, Britain's only ever joint monarchs, came to the throne through a coup with the 'Glorious Revolution' ...Show more
William Shakespeare - On Power by William Shakespeare
$12.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
This work includes Shakespeare's writing on power: in love, war, government and the family. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, pro ...Show more
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine Saint-Exupery
$26.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1926, de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Latecoere - later known as Aeropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. "Wind, Sand and Stars" is drawn from this experience. Interweaving encounters with nomadic Arabs and other adventures into a richly ...Show more
Wind, Sand and Stars (Pocket Penguin) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'It was a dark night, with only occasional scattered lights glittering like stars on the plain' The aviator and author of The Little Prince describes vast, otherworldly landscapes, crash landings and magical encounters in his transcendent account of flying over the Sahara and the Andes. Ten new titles i ...Show more