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The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwo classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had aresumed his position as an indep ...Show more
The Worst Witch (Puffin Modern Classics) by Jill Murphy
21.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Mildred Hubble is the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches - she's always getting her spells wrong. But she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy...
The Worst Witch - out of print by Jill Murphy
12.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Young Puffin Modern Classics
Mildred Hubble is a trainee witch at Miss Cackle's Academy, and she's making an awful mess of it. She's always getting her spells wrong and she can't even ride a broomstick without crashing it. But she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy.
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon ; Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface by)
26.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autob ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty John Gregory Dunne and Joan ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Refusing to compromise in spite of society's expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a ...Show more
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with ...Show more
Tiger, Tiger (Essential Modern Classics) by Lynne Reid Banks
16.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Essential Modern Classics
Two tigers. One city. Two very different lives. A compelling story about friendship, brotherhood and battling against the odds. In Ancient Rome Caesar is almighty and his power is played out in the gladiatorial arena, where animals and men are baited, challenged and destroyed. Two tiger cubs have been k ...Show more
Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto
37.00 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate- the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, an old ...Show more
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
John Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, and perhaps his funniest novel, Tortilla Flat includes a critical introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics. Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written betwe ...Show more
Ulysses: Annotated Students' Edition by James Joyce
40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, "Ulysses" has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging allusions confirms its stan ...Show more