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Of Mice and Men (Popular Penguin) by John Steinbeck
$14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguin Classics
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
$14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRWELL One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in hi ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
$13.99 NZD
Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera,published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Popular Penguin) by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with notes by Michael Squires and an introduction by Doris Lessing.Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless ...Show more
The Art of War (Popular Penguin) by Sun-tzu
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Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also rel ...Show more
The Art of Solitude by Zachary Seager (Editor)
$22.99 NZD
Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or ...Show more
The Age Of Reason (Popular Penguin) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reasonfollows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in t ...Show more
Goodbye to All That (Popular Penguin) by Robert Graves
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Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses . . .'I ...Show more
On Natural Selection (Popular Penguin) by Charles Darwin
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Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 th ...Show more
In the Winter Dark (Popular Penguin) by Tim Winton
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Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jacob sees a moving shadow. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbs's house, a small dog is t ...Show more
The Time Machine (Popular Penguin) by H.G. Wells
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Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have reason to be afraid: in tunnels bene ...Show more
One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Popular Penguin) by Gabriel García Márquez
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Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Penguin's commemorative hardback reissue of One Hundred Years of Solitudeby late Nobel laureate and author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a timeless classic and the perfect Christmas gift for any booklover.Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories ...Show more
