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Call for the Dead by John le Carré
$8.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carr 's latest novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available. "Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on you ...Show more
Chernobyl Prayer - Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'A beautifully written book, it's been years since I had to look away from a page because it was just too heart-breaking to go on' - Arundhati Roy, Elle'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, Observer The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Ale ...Show more
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
Children Are Civilians Too by Heinrich Böll
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Civilization & Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
$10.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual.
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
$7.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Collected Short Stories by E M Forster
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Dedicated to Hermes - messenger to the gods and conductor of souls to the afterworld - this collection is composed of masterpieces of fantasy. Written at various dates before World War I, these 12 stories contain themes that were to re-emerge in E.M. Forster's later work, in particular the attempt to es ...Show more
Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh's early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of which became the inspirations for his novels. "Mr Loveday's Little Outing" is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; "Cruise" s ...Show more
Confessions by St Augustine; R S Pine-Coffin (Translated by)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Augustine's Confessions might be one of the most profound Christian testimonies ever recorded. Not necessarily because Augustine led an unusual life or faced intriguing circumstances which had to be overcome; because, in reality, the actual events of his life were relatively less than extraordinary. Aug ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - And Other Stories by Thomas De Quincey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Thomas De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" is edited with an introduction by Barry Milligan. "Confessions" is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipp ...Show more
Confucius - The Analects by Confucius
$10.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Analects are a collection of Confucius's sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self ...Show more
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all fronties, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian's greatest general. With this book Robert Graves again demonstrates his command of a vast historical subject, creating a st ...Show more