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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
$7.00 NZD
$19.95 (64% off)
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses ...Show more
A Man's Head by Georges Simenon
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Crime | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Set in the in the atmospheric and squalid streets of Paris, Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. In another one of Maigret's unconventional and audacious plans, he arranges the escape of the condemned man in an attempt to prove his theory. The presumed ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them ...Show more
My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Crime | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Maigret is going about his work in rainy Paris, followed around by Inspector Pyke who has come from Scotland Yard to study the famous French detective's methods. Routine is disturbed when Maigret receives a telephone call from the island of Porquerolles off the Mediterranean coast. A small-time crook ha ...Show more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
$8.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published illustrations by the author, and an introducti ...Show more
The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
There is no braver officer in Napoleon's cavalry than etienne Gerard - especially in his own opinion. Whether kidnapped by gangs of brigands or outnumbered by enemy troops, the plucky little soldier is constantly gallant, chivalrous and ready to face any danger, even if he doesn't always think before he ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Considered by many to the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805, in the crowded and gossip-filled rooms of a St Petersburg party, and follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as ...Show more
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