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Four Russian Short Stories (Mini Modern Classics) by Anon
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern
Another hour gone. But I'm not afraid. There's only one thing I regret- that I've lived for so many years without knowing where human happiness is to be found.'In these stories, four writers - all exiles from revolutionary Russia - explore four deaths in a world in which old certainties have dissolved f ...Show more
Glittering City (Mini Modern Classics) by Cyprian Ekwensi
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern
Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night'Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos.
Groucho Marx: The Essential Groucho by Stefan Kanfer
28.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'No, Groucho is not my real name, I'm just breaking it in for a friend'. Presenting the greatest and most hilarious examples of Groucho, one of the most influential and well-loved figures in the long and glittering history of comedy. From early scripts to complete screenplays, from magazine funnies to f ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
24.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. It also offers a personal background to the subtexts of his later novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's experiences include bei ...Show more
I Have More Souls Than One (Mini Modern Classics) by Fernando Pessoa
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | 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
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
28.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those i ...Show more
In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'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
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | 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.
Lance by Vladimir Nabokov
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern
The illegible signature of teetering disaster'Three great stories - The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance - the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel.
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. ...Show more
Leaving the Yellow House (Mini Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern
She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impos ...Show more
Letter from Birmingham Jail (Mini Modern Classics) by Martin Luther King
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.