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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
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
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankn ...Show more
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
With an essay by Rosemary Sumner. 'Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet to star, from single stars to double stars, from double to coloured stars...' Hardy's atmospheric, moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces far beyond their control, setting ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by P ...Show more
Victorian Verse - A Critical Anthology by George MacBeth (introduction by)
$7.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade in this story. The characters are an assortment of those inhabiting the social domain that lies between Park Lane and Bond Street.