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A Month In The Country: Penguin Essentials by J.L. Carr
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of ren ...Show more
A Passage to India by E M Forster
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to Indiais published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and pr ...Show more
A Room with a View by E M Forster, E.M. Forster, E. M. Forster, E.M. Forster And Malcolm Bradbury
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you ...'. Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
$21.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
With new cover by urban artist Shepard Fairey. To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. By day, he tra ...Show more
I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill
$21.00 NZD
Category: Ghosts & Horror | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'Some people are coming here today, now you will have a companion.' But young Edmund Hooper doesn't want anyone else in Warings, the large and rambling Victorian house he shares with his widowed father. Nevertheless Charles Kingshaw and his mother are soon installed and Hooper sets about subtly persecut ...Show more
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: near fine
New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man. 'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.' Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retre ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Connie was aware, however, of a growing restlessness...It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness. It made her heart beat violently for no reason'. Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marr ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lo ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: near fine
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel 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 si ...Show more
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
$30.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'I'm writing a history of the world,' she says . . . And in the process, my own.' Claudia Hampton is dying. A professional historian in her seventies, she casts her mind back through her own life to identify the currents and winds upon which she has been cast adrift. We see how this strong, independent ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'What's your road, man - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow'. Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search fo ...Show more
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies ...Show more