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Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Pengu ...Show more
Dark Days (Mini Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern
So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'Drawing on his own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, James Baldwin's searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.
Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern
The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house'Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature.
Death the Barber (Mini Modern Classics) by William Carlos Williams
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern
The alphabet of the trees is fading in the song of the leaves'Filled with bright, unforgettable images, the deceptively simple work of William Carlos Williams revolutionized American verse, and made him one of the greatest twentieth-century poets.
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
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
24.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrele ...Show more
England Your England by George Orwell
7.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England Your England' is one of the most compelling and insightful portraits of the nation ever written. Shot through with Orwell's deeply felt sense of patriotism and love for his homeland, the essay is at the same time unfailingly clear-eyed about the nation's failings- entrenched social inequality, a ...Show more
Essays by George Orwell
21.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
Fame (Mini Modern Classics) by Andy Warhol
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern
'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away'The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious and insightful vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love, fame and beauty.
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S. Thompson
30.00 NZD
Category: Music | 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
Food (Mini Modern Classics) by Gertrude Stein
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern 08
Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life.