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Bliss and Other Stories - out of print by Katherine Mansfield
24.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the title story of this collection, we meet Bertha, a young married woman, who experiences a blissful sexual awakening, only to be cruelly disillusioned. In the 14 stories in this collection, the characters reveal the universal struggle of human beings to fulfil their expectations.
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
24.95 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Secon ...Show more
Decline And Fall (TV Tie in) by Evelyn Waugh
24.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A tie-in edition of Waugh's first and funniest novel to accompany the new BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Sent down from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of Her Majesty's priso ...Show more
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S. Thompson
26.00 NZD
Category: Language And Foreign | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances: firing wildly into the cactus from a car full of drugs'. "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone" showcases the evolution of the writer of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Hell's Angels", through his work at the magazine that he help ...Show more
Giovanni's Room (Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
24.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
James Baldwin's electrifying first novel. 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.' Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father ...Show more
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.
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
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