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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
$40.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
"Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. ... It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.) "Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dallowa ...Show more
Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
$13.99 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
South : The Endurance Expedition (Popular Penguin) by Ernest Shackleton
$13.99 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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How Language Works (Popular Penguin) by David Crystal
$13.99 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
David Crystal's How Language Worksis a fascinating tour through the world of language from one of today's most renowned experts. It ranges over everything from how children learn to read to what makes words rude or polite, from eyebrow flashes to whistling languages. Unlocking the secrets of communicati ...Show more
Heart of Darkness (Popular Penguin) by Joseph Conrad
$14.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the lo ...Show more
Agency by William Gibson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics
They call Verity 'the app-whisperer', and she's just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. Only Eunice has other ideas. Pretty soon, Verity knows that Eunice is smarter than anyone she's ever met, conceals some serious capabilities and is pro ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
$31.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrathincludes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics.'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves ...Show more
Kingdom of Fear (Popular Penguin) by Hunter S. Thompson
$13.99 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Gonzo memoir from one of the most influential voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson's life as a rebel--from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, a ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
$40.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | 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
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Popular Penguin) by Arthur Conan Doyle
$13.99 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of iniquity . . . The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures reveal the brilliant consulting detective at ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu & James Clavell (foreword)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics
In the fifth century BC, Sun Tzu wrote: In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death. A road either to safety or ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected... In the twentieth cen ...Show more
Meditations (Popular Penguin) by Marcus Aurelius
$13.99 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay.Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
