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Antigone : Little Black Classic by Sophocles; Robert Fagles (translator)
$3.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 55 | Reading Level: very good
'It's a dreadful thing to yield ...but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That's dreadful too.' The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and dive ...Show more
Aretino - Selected Letters by Pietro Aretino; George Bull (Translator)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Aristophanes - The Wasps; The Poet and the Woman; The Frogs by Aristophanes
$10.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a ...Show more
Aristotle - The Politics by Aristotle
$8.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
This new translation of one of the fundamental texts of Western political thought combines strict fidelity to Aristotle's Greek with a contemporary English prose style. Lord's intention throughout is to retain Aristotle's distinctive style. The accompanying notes provide literary and historical referenc ...Show more
Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: near fine
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many ...Show more
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
That's a real writer, with the true comic spirit. A really funny book. James Joyce.
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"This is just the book to give your sister - if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." - Dylan Thomas. Flann O'Brien's first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin and spends far too much time drinking with his friends. When not drunk or in b ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight) by Emile Zola
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Au Bonheur des Dames Emile Zola publié en 1883, prépublié dès décembre 1882 dans Gil Blas, le onzième volume de la suite romanesque les Rougon-Macquart. À travers une histoire sentimentale, le roman entraîne le lecteur dans le monde des grands magasins, l'une des innovations du Second Empire (1852-1870) ...Show more
Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs. The Osugi family have come to a realisation. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. Already seen as oddballs in their sm ...Show more
Bel-Ami by Guy De Maupassant,; Douglas Parmee (translator)
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, "Bel-Ami" is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in "Penguin Classics". Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist ...Show more
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann. 'As long as he had money, he remained decent. But then he ran out of money'. Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison for doing some stupid stuff, he finds himse ...Show more