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The Samurai by Shusaku Endo
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1613 the missionary Father Pedro Velasco's dream comes true. For the first time, the Japanese are going to cross the Pacific Ocean. And he is going with them. As he sets sail with a group of Samurai, for Mexico, then Spain and finally Rome, his zealous hope is that, by opening up relations with the w ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
This is a dramatic, moving depiction of social defiance and social deference, of passion and human frailty. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tens ...Show more
The Sun Also Rises (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Ernest Hemingway
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Hemingway'sclassic novel of post-war disillusionment-the emblematic novel of the Lost Generation-now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, in a beautiful Graphic Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckled edges, and specially commissioned cover art by R. Kikuo Johnson and a new introduction b ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder ...Show more
The Three Little Pigs by Gledhill, Illustrated by Carly
$16.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character-driven narratives and colorful illustrations. Designed to be the perfect one-minute bedtime story (or five minutes--if you're begged to read it over and over), parents can feel good about exposing their chi ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants o ...Show more
The Trials of Rumpole by John Mortimer
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | 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 Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women's history.' In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to wr ...Show more
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum; Carly Gledhill (Illustrator)
$15.99 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
When a storm rages through the Kansas countryside, little Dorothy finds that she and her farmhouse have been swallowed up by a tornado and spirited off to the magical Land of Oz. But when she finds that her house has fallen on the Wicked Witch of the East, all Dorothy wants is to go back to Kansas. To r ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
$24.89 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first part of John le Carré's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged George Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart. A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the Br ...Show more
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the middle of the fifties. Wrapped in a spiritual atmos ...Show more