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The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
13.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind'. Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundl ...Show more
The Lost Estate (Penguin pocket classics) by Henri Alain-Fournier
18.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
'He too began to chase the great pierrot through the corridors of the ch teau...' A novel of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, the story of Meaulnes and his restless search for a lost, enchanted world has the atmosphere of a dream and the purity of a fairy tale. A new series of twenty distinc ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago (Penguin Pocket Classics No. 4) by Alfred Russel Wallace
18.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Pocket Penguins
'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head'Alfred Russel Wallace left to explore the islands of southeast Asia an obscure naturalist; he returned eight years later an acclaimed scientist and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution. This is his vivid, exh ...Show more
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
18.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Manuscripts don't burn' In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural ...Show more
The Mirror of Ink by Jorge Luis Borges
4.95 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Jorge Luis Borges wrote playful and deeply imaginative short stories that explored philosophy, paradox and the nature of existence. Penguin Modern Classics publish all of his most famous works, including Labyrinths, The Aleph and Fictions.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin pocket classics) by Rainer Maria Rilke
18.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
'There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.'This dreamlike meditation on being young and alone in Paris is a feverish work of nerves, angst and sublime beauty from one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.A new series of twenty distinctive, unf ...Show more
The Rainbow (Penguin pocket classics) by D. H. Lawrence
18.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Pocket Penguins
'So Ursula became the child of her father's heart.' The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family and their struggles with each other and themselves. Beautiful, strange and with a power all its own, The Rainbow redefined the English novel. A new series of twenty distinctive, ...Show more
The Secret Agent (Penguin pocket classics) by Joseph Conrad
18.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.'In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the ...Show more
Walden: Penguin Pocket Classics by Henry Thoreau
18.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Pocket Penguins
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Inspiring, brilliantly written, cantankerous and funny - Walden is both a very specific ...Show more
Wind, Sand and Stars (Pocket Penguin) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Pocket Penguins
'It was a dark night, with only occasional scattered lights glittering like stars on the plain' The aviator and author of The Little Prince describes vast, otherworldly landscapes, crash landings and magical encounters in his transcendent account of flying over the Sahara and the Andes. Ten new titles i ...Show more