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Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's "Under the Volcano" includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in "Penguin Modern Classics". It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins ...Show more
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$32.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade in this story. The characters are an assortment of those inhabiting the social domain that lies between Park Lane and Bond Street.
Village Christmas by Laurie Lee
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From the author of Cider With Rosie, Village Christmas is a moving, lyrical portrait of England through the changing years and seasons. Laurie Lee left his childhood home in the Cotswolds when he was nineteen, but it remained with him throughout his life until, many years later, he returned for good. Th ...Show more
Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys, Carole Angier
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Eighteen, on her own and independent as much through circumstance as character, Anna has exchanged the West Indies of her childhood for the cold greyness of England, with its narrow streets and narrower rules. As she drifts towards the demi-monde of 1914 London, she comes to realise that life will never ...Show more
Watership Down O/P by Richard Adams
$26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This novel tell the story of a band of rabbits who defy their chief and desert their warren when one of them prophesies the destruction of all who remain. This compulsive, fast-moving tale describes a mythical world full of heroic struggles, where animals are imbued with character, dignity and emotion. ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art & Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
We the Living by Ayn Rand
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state. Of this book, Ayn Rand said, "it is as near to an autobiogr ...Show more
Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? (Mini Modern Classics) by Hans Fallada
$2.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
It was what we call in the trade a potato . . . 'Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (Mini Modern Classics) by Wendell Berry
$2.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can' The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly.
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
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
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Feminism | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more