Dangerous Liaisons: Popular Penguins by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Depicting decadence and moral corruption in pre-revolutionary France, Dangerous Liaisons is one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Two aristocrats embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Mar ...Show more
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Presenting ten essays, the author addresses the Russian minds of the nineteenth century: Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky and Tolstoy, as well as exploring the political and social revolutions they inspired and responded to. He describes this as 'the largest single Russian contribution to social chan ...Show more
Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With this new translation and selection, the unique inventiveness of Andersen's genius is revealed. At a time when children's stories were formal, moral and didactic, Hans Christian Andersen revolutionized the genre, giving an anarchic twist to traditional folklore and creating a huge number of utterly ...Show more
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's pos ...Show more
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Rare is the work of philosophy that invites both the casual reader and the academic. Rare, too, is the text so universal that luminaries across an array of fields lay claim to it. Yet, that is precisely the case with Gaston Bachelard’s The P ...Show more
The Violent Land by Jorge Amado
37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
The siren song of the lush, cocoa-growing forests of Bahia lures them all - the adventurers, the assassins, the gamblers, the brave and beautiful women. It is not a gentle song, but a song of greed, madness and blood, which promises riches untold, or death for the price of a swig of rum. It is a song mo ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Classics Ser.
Features Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four 'little women' enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England.
Farewell My Lovely: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler This is one of Chandler's most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thi ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
In this haunting, magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and the Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetr ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Popular Penguins by William Shakespeare
14.00 NZD
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William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' as well as a range of other equally moving works, this compilation brings together the compl ...Show more
Natural History: A Selection by Pliny the Elder
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Classics
Pliny's "Natural History" is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of d ...Show more
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov
21.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
An enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton Chekhov at the height of his power as a writer In the final years of his life, Chekhov produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces, and some of the most highly-regarded works in Russian literature. The poignant 'The Lady with the L ...Show more