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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
$21.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in a ...Show more
Interpreting Dreams by Sigmund Freud
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the unconscious and recognized that dreams are a conflict and compromise between conscious and unconscious impulses. Through his insights about dreams, Freud was able to revise his method ...Show more
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by Saul Bellow
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The Times London]) A Penguin Classic "Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have." --The New York Times Book Review In It A ...Show more
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Brought up in a stifling, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and travels to London. There, she meets Clelia and the rest of the Denham family. But while she will do anything to join their circle, she gives no thought to the chaos that she may cause. ...Show more
Junky by William S. Burroughs
$27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time s ...Show more
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
$18.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, a sahib, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he ...Show more
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
$26.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Bill ...Show more
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. ...Show more
Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his acc ...Show more
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an in ...Show more
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; Anthony Thwaite (Introduction by)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead ...Show more