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A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
24.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
Forster's social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy.
A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids committment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays: Sweet Bird of Youth; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams: E. Martin Browne (Editor)
26.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Tennessee Williams's sensuous, atmospheric plays transformed the American stage with their passion, exoticism and vibrant characters who rage against their personal demons and the modern world. This collection includes a number of William's plays, including "A Streetcar Named Desire".
A Wrinkle in Time (Puffin Modern Classic) by Madeleine L'Engle
15.99 NZD
16.99 (5% off)
Category: unsorted ex new release | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a 'wrinkle in time' for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as 'It'. How Charles, his sister Meg and friend Calvin find and free his father makes this a very special and exciting ...Show more
After the First Death (Puffin Modern Classics) by Robert Cormier
25.00 NZD
Category: Thriller | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
On the outskirts of a small American town, a bus-load of young children is being held hostage. The hijackers are a cold and ruthless group, opposed to the secret government agency Inner Delta. At the centre of the battle are three teenagers. Miro is the terrorist with no past and no emotions. Kate is th ...Show more
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally i ...Show more
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
24.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest European prose writers' - Philip Roth. In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Observed Trains) bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, ten ...Show more
Allen Ginsberg Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. Presented chronologically, it sets Ginsberg's verse against the story of his extraordinary life: from his most famous land ...Show more
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A tie-in edition of Fallada's best-selling WW2 novel, to accompany the major new film starring Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson. Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they ...Show more
An Academic Question by Barbara Pym
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
A delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym territory. In a provincial university town Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers as a reader to a blind, esteemed ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...Show more