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A Capote Reader by Truman Capote
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing ...' Truman Capote began writing at the age of eight, and never looked back. "A Capote Reader" contains much of the author's published work: his brilliant a ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
$14.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writingscollects stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings. This Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Slater.Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol ...Show more
A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
$17.95 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?
A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition by Anthony Burgess
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?' This special edition of A Clockwork Orangerestores the text of Anthony Burgess' novel as he originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of his teen slang 'Nadsat', pages from the original typescript, explanatory notes, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light o ...Show more
A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.' A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themse ...Show more
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o; Abdulrazak Gurnah (Introduction by)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is 1963 and Kenya is on the verge of Uhuru - independence day. The mighty British government has been toppled, and in the lull between the fighting and the new world, colonised and coloniser alike reflect on what they have gained and lost. In the village of Thabai, the men and women who live there h ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
$12.99 NZD
$26.00 (50% off)
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
$22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knavewas published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and ...Show more
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds - the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural ...Show more
A Little Learning: An Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius. Save for a few pale shadows, hi ...Show more
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France - two days on foot through the snow.' Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately ...Show more