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The Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman is commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of his war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, h ...Show more
The Symposium by Plato
$26.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge t ...Show more
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu; Royall Tyler (Trans)
$52.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
This is the first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki's great 11th century novel is a beautifully crafted story of love, betrayal and death at the Imperial Court. At the core of this epic is Prince Genji, the son of an emperor, whos ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Anne Bronte is the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son. By challenging the prevailing morals of the time the novel caused a critic to pronounce it ''utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls' ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder ...Show more
The Thin Red Line by James Jones
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
With "shattering prose," the New York Times-bestselling author of From Here to Eternity captures the intense combat in the battle of Guadalcanal (San Francisco Chronicle). In August of 1942 the first American marines charged Guadalcanal, igniting a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungl ...Show more
The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
$15.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international conseq ...Show more
The Three Little Pigs by Gledhill, Illustrated by Carly
$15.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character-driven narratives and colorful illustrations. Designed to be the perfect one-minute bedtime story (or five minutes--if you're begged to read it over and over), parents can feel good about exposing their chi ...Show more
The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology. This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings. It includes his most famous work, The Secret Life of Walter Mi ...Show more
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, a call to arms against those driving our planet toward the point of destructi ...Show more
The Total Library: Non-fiction, 1922-1986 by Jorge Luis Borges
$48.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. This title features more than 150 of Borges' pieces.
The Trials of Rumpole by John Mortimer
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from Pommeroy's wine bar, is back for further misadventures. Amid an unfortunate and temporary downturn in L ...Show more