Man Alone (Popular Penguin) by John Mulgan
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Category: Popular Penguins
Johnson, an English WWI veteran, comes to New Zealand to find a new life. In Auckland he is caught up in the Great Depression riots, and heads south to the central North Island, where he work as a farm hand. An affair with his boss’s wife and the accidental killing of his boss cause him to flee across r ...Show more
An Idea Can Go Extinct by Bill McKibben
13.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
This is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by irrevocably altering our environment, our atmosphere and the most basic forces around us, 'we are ending nature.'
Uncanny and Improbable Events (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Amitav Ghosh
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of environmental destruction, he summons writers and novelists to confront the most urgent story of our times.
Orlando: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashin ...Show more
To the Lighthouse: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
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"To the Lighthouse" is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel and is widely acknowledged as being among the greatest literary achievements of this century. It is also the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island where the Ramsay family as well as various guests enjoy the long summer in each ...Show more
Going Solo: Popular Penguins by Roald Dahl
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In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism esprit de corps that have characterised the Royal Air Force throughou ...Show more
The Psychology of Love: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
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Freud's landmark writings on love and sexuality, including the famous case study of Dora newly translated and in one volume for the first time This original collection brings together the most important writings on the psychology of love by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. Sigmund F ...Show more
How I Live Now: Popular Penguins by Meg Rosoff
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This award winning novel will soon be released as a movie starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy. Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own ...Show more
The Time Machine: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have reason to be afraid: in tunnels bene ...Show more
The War of the Worlds: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object only to be burned alive by heat-rays as horrific, tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilization is under thre ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly ...Show more
One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by BADER DAVID
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
In the sixteenth century, Japanese monks developed the haiku, a poem consisting of (respectively) three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. Now, David Bader applies this ancient poetic form to 100 Great Books. From Homer to Milton to Dostoyevsky, the entire literary canon is finally withi ...Show more