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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
21.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
17.00 NZD
23.00 (26% off)
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
26.00 NZD
Category: Mystery/Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fab ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by James Joyce
32.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait ...Show more
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. And now life seems more complicated every day. Her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have b ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
17.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy dr ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll; Charlie Lovett (Introduction by); John Tenniel (Illustrator)
30.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Lewis Carroll's brilliantly timeless tales--in a deluxe 150th-anniversary edition Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy ...Show more
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | 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
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between ...Show more
Aphorisms on Love and Hate: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 05 by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth...Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater.' This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity o ...Show more
Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When shy young heir Patrick is orphaned at the age of ten, the only family he has is his wealthy and eccentric aunt, a New York socialite named Mame. Prone to dramatic costumes, flights of fancy and expensive whims, Mame will raise Patrick the only way she knows how - with humour, mishaps, unforgettable ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damn ...Show more