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100 Artists' Manifestos - From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Danchev Alex
$32.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architect ...Show more
50 Philosophy Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: 50 Classics Ser.
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sar ...Show more
A Christmas Carol: A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic by Charles Dickens
$39.99 NZD
Category: Children's classics | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
The classic seasonal tale of self-discovery, with 80 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. This classic seasonal tale of self-discovery has become one of Charles Dickens's most famous and best-loved works. On Christmas Eve, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghost of his former business p ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition by Anthony Burgess
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?' This special edition of A Clockwork Orangerestores the text of Anthony Burgess' novel as he originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of his teen slang 'Nadsat', pages from the original typescript, explanatory notes, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light o ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; Tess Newall; Alex Goodwin
$22.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
The ultimate and timeless Christmas story, with cuddly guinea pigs in the starring roles Miserable to the core and wholly unwilling to extend a paw to help those in desperate need, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge says "bah, Humbug " to the festive season. But one night he is visited by three Christmas Sp ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Night Before Christmas by CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
The latest heart-warming book in the Guinea Pig Classics series.''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse' But sit down by the fire with some chocolates to hand, And you'll be welcomed into a magical land. There is snow and some moon ...Show more
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
$13.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century literature. They focus o ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Room with a View: Penguin Classics by E M Forster
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentin ...Show more
A Small Circus by Hans Fallada
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A "Small Circus" is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of "Alone in Berlin"). It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the "Pomeranian ...Show more
According to Mark by Penelope Lively
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Any time spent with Penelope Lively is a joy' Observer A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, and apparently dedicated to a life of letters, he nevertheless falls in love with Strong's granddau ...Show more