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The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré
$24.00 NZD
Category: Spy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triump ...Show more
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate; Julian Fellowes (Introduction by)
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual, the gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowsh ...Show more
The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Ghosts & Horror | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In The Sundial Shirley Jackson, author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, blends family politics and apocalyptic terror to create a disturbing world of sinister relations and the macabre. "An amazing writer". (Neil Gaiman). Mrs Halloran has inherited the great Halloran house on the death of her son, ...Show more
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: Adult
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the sc ...Show more
The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology. This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings. It includes his most famous work, The Secret Life of Walter Mi ...Show more
The Trials of Rumpole by John Mortimer
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from Pommeroy's wine bar, is back for further misadventures. Amid an unfortunate and temporary downturn in L ...Show more
The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Leaving her orphanage at sixteen, Sukey Bond finds employment as a servant in the remote New Easter Farm, deep within the Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with simple, gentle Eric, the son of the rector's wife. But when their relationship is discovered, they are swiftly separated. So begins Sukey' ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in "Penguin Modern Classics". More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, "The Waves" conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group ...Show more
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwo classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had aresumed his position as an indep ...Show more
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon ; Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface by)
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autob ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F.Scott Fitzgerald
$28.00 NZD
Category: F. Scott Fitzgerald | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world.