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Journey to Oxford by John Mulgan
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
John Mulgan’s place in New Zealand literature rests on his acclaimed novel, Man Alone, and the war memoir, Report on Experience; but he wrote another work, part memoir, part reflective essay, which dealt with his departure from New Zealand (“a small country where loveliness goes often unregarded”) and h ...Show more
Man Alone by John Mulgan
$14.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: Very Good
'That's Auckland, mate - the Queen of the North.' 'The what?' 'The Queen of the North. That's what they call it - in Auckland. This is God's own, this country.' Man Alone is a literary landmark that has haunted our writing for decades. John Mulgan's vision of New Zealand society as detached and unsentim ...Show more
Man Alone by John Mulgan
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Man Alone is a literary landmark that has haunted our writing for decades. John Mulgan's vision of New Zealand society as detached and unsentimental, with the power to reject and alienate, enriches our understanding of who, and what, we are.
Man Alone: VUP Classic by John Mulgan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Man Alone is one of the foundation stones of New Zealand literature. Almost all copies of the first edition, published in England in 1939, were destroyed in the Blitz. When it was republished in New Zealand in 1949, after the author’s suicide in Cairo in 1945, the publisher Paul’s Book Arcade made a num ...Show more
Report on Experience by John Mulgan
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
John Mulgan is famous as the author of the novel Man Alone (1939), one of the classic landmarks of a mature and independent New Zealand literature. His second book, Report on Experience, published posthumously in 1947, is one of the most clear-sighted and moving memoirs to emerge from the Second World W ...Show more
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