Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent and a charge of espionage ...Show more
Cause For Alarm
28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancee points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in Italy, he jumps at the chance. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth about his pr ...Show more
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
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Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - an infamous master criminal, long wanted by the law, whose body has just been fished out of the Bosph ...Show more
Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Oliver Harris (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters- a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he jo ...Show more
Junky by William S. Burroughs
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Richard Alpert
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Psychedelic Experience", created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. In this wholly unique book, the authors provide an interpretation of an ancient ...Show more
Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac
28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: JK
Moodily atmospheric, full of verve and energy, "Maggie Cassidy" is Kerouac's poignant tale of teenage romance in New England. The story of Jack and Maggie, in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation, is told with touching simplicity. It skillfully capture ...Show more
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classic Books
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
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Category: Classic Books | 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
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The play is a parable inspired by Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed by two mothers. A chalk circle is metaphorically drawn around a society misdirected in its pr ...Show more
Equus by Peter Shaffer
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of the sacred and profane, and of the paltry value of a 'mundane' life, published in Penguin Modern Classics. When a ...Show more
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In "I, Claudius", he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from ...Show more