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A Year in Provence: Popular Penguins by Peter Mayle
$14.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain | Series: Popular Penguins
Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence is the much-loved account of an English couple living their dream abroad. When they buy a 200-year-old farmhouse in the South of France, Peter Mayle and his wife little expect the delights that await them - from six-course lunches and epic games of boule, to encounters w ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and na vet continue to charm. This volume ...Show more
Farewell My Lovely: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
$14.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler This is one of Chandler's most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thi ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels: Popular Penguins by Jonathan Swift
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around the world. In Lilliput he is a giant among a race of little people only six inches high; in Brobdingnag he himself seems tiny compared to the giant inhabitants; and in the country of the Houyhnhnms horse ...Show more
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
$14.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth.Despised for his weakness and regarded by ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
$13.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover: Popular Penguins by D. H. Lawrence
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | 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
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
Rabbit, Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: Popular Penguins by John Mortimer
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murderssees our eponymous hero tackle his first ever case. It is just after the war and two RAF heroes are found shot dead. Simon Jerold, the son of one of the victims, is the only suspect and young Rumpole is given the hopeless task of defending him. But R ...Show more
Scoop: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
$14.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch ...Show more
South: The Endurance Expedition: Popular Penguins by Ernest Shackleton
$13.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men hoping to be the first to traverse the Antarctic, but when their ship became crushed by ice 350 miles from land, the expedition soon became a matter of life and death. This is the ex ...Show more