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1984 by George Orwell
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
A Confederacy of Dunces: Popular Penguins by John Kennedy Toole
$15.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly: flatulent, eloquent and pretty much unemployable . . . The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has ...Show more
A Passage To India: Popular Penguins by E. M. Forster
$14.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
After a mysterious incident during their visit to the Marabar Caves, the charming Dr Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman. His trial exposes the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relations and the racism inherent in colonialism is exposed. A Passage to India compelling ...Show more
A Year in Provence: Popular Penguins by Peter Mayle
$14.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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
All Visitors Ashore by C.K. Stead
$14.50 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
In the foreground of All Visitor's Ashore is a set of bizarre characters, all of whom seem bent on escaping from New Zealand into a larger world. The 1951 waterfront lockout is on, the harbour is full of cargo vessels, but the passenger ships continue to sail. One by one or two by two the characters in ...Show more
Another Country (Popular Penguin) by James Baldwin
$14.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSet in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days: Popular Penguins by Jules Verne
$14.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness" One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he ...Show more
Beowulf: Popular Penguins by Michael Alexander
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Category: World fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fidelity of implication. May it go on ... to another half-million copies." - Tom Shippey, Bulletin of the I ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
$14.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Came a Hot Friday by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
$14.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Arson, murder, sex and hair-raising midnight adventures at a town called Tainuia Junction. It's Friday when the silver-tongued Wes Pennington and his sidekick Cyril Kidman come to town with a trick to play on the local bookmaker. But there's already other skullduggery afoot ...not to speak of the Te Wha ...Show more
Civilization and Its Discontents: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
$14.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm: Popular Penguins by Stella Gibbons
$17.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farmby Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm... ...Show more