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Against Slavery - An Abolitionist Reader by Mason Lowance (Editor); Mason I. Lowance
$12.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."--Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harr ...Show more
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between ...Show more
American Supernatural Tales by JOSHI T
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the oc ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
$14.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets, prayer meetings and small-minded bigotry, Anna is dominated by her miserly and tyrannical father. When she inherits a fortune and finds love, she struggles to break free from t ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jaz ...Show more
Aretino - Selected Letters by Pietro Aretino; George Bull (Translator)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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.
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
Brigitta and Other Tales by Adalbert Stifter; Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly (Introduction by, Translator)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Each of these four stories is set in a recognisable world depicted with a measured realism. But once the reader has learned to look beneath the calm, apparently seamless surface of the narrative, and in Stifter's words, 'to see with an eye of the heart', strange tensions are revealed.
Burmese Days by George Orwell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, "Burmese Days" describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orth ...Show more