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The Wall Jumper by Peter Schneider
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Berlin before the fall of the Wall is a city divided, yet its ordinary residents find ways to live and survive on both sides. There is Robert, teller of bar room anecdotes over beer and vodka, adjusting to a new life in the west; Pommerer, trying to outwit the system in the east; the unnamed narrator, w ...Show more
The War of the Worlds: Penguin Classics by H.G. Wells
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. S ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Through a series of connected monologues,The Waves tells the story of six very different friends - Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda - as they progress from childhood to middle age. Interspersed with evocative descriptions of the seaside at different times of day, the poignant personal his ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in "Penguin Modern Classics". More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, "The Waves" conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group ...Show more
The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases by Sigmund Freud
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The new "Penguin Freud", under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in "The Case Histories": "Little Hans", "The Rat Man", "The Wolf Man ...Show more
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, "The Woman In The Dunes" combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where ...Show more
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: Good
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable ...Show more
Three Roman Plays; Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus by William Shakespeare; Emrys Jones (Editor); Norman Sanders (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Contains Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. Each play has its own introduction, a full and helpful commentary and a further reading list.
Time and the Conways and Other Plays by J. B. Priestley
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
$10.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first part of John le Carré's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged George Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart. A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the Br ...Show more
To Be Read At Dusk : Little Black Classic by Charles Dickens
$2.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 86 | Reading Level: very good
'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.' Three ghostly tales from a master of the form, 'The Signalman', 'The Trial for Murder' and the title story, 'To Be Read at Dusk'. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little ...Show more