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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
17.97 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
When George Orwell joined up to fight in the Spanish Civil War, it seemed like the beginning of 'an era of equality and freedom'. In Homage to Catalonia he vividly chronicles his experiences: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, the courage of the ordinary Spanish men and women he fought alongside, ...Show more
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
31.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where difficult days are faced with courage and the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory.
I Have More Souls Than One (Mini Modern Classics) by Fernando Pessoa
2.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
But no, she's abstract, is a bird, Of sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumbered, Because the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a mind shaken by intense suffering and a tirele ...Show more
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
24.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Aids and its Metaphors", the sequel, is obviously written in the light of the Aids crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for Aids and its effects may be damaging; they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society. ...Show more
In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey
31.00 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good - very good
'You cannot put it down: witty, moving and it's all about sex' - Margaret Drabble. 'A masterpiece ...dazzling ...like all great novels, it shows the truth about life' - Le Monde. 'At the basis of pleasure, of eroticism, Vizinczey places consciousness. His novel consists of scenes which you can see ...St ...Show more
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
2.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
30.00 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down...let's have a little fun...' In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, ...Show more
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Bill ...Show more
Letter & Other Stories (ab) by W. Somerset Maugham
29.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This audiobook includes "Episode", "The Letter", "The Luncheon", "Mr Know-All" and "Princess September". "The Letter" centres around a posied, elegant murderess and a self-assured colonial world where men and women are caught between English values and the rich ambiguity of their surroundings.
Letter from Birmingham Jail (Mini Modern Classics) by Martin Luther King
2.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
24.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy.
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
24.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Kerouac's first and most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create an original and moving epic. This editi ...Show more