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Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The play of moonlight on the icebergs was indescribably strange, and its magnificent refracted shimmers were brighter than day. One night, fooled by its brilliance, I got up at three in the morning.' Scorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which Kpomassie grew ...Show more
Morrissey - Autobiography by Morrissey
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (p ...Show more
Mr Hire's Engagement by Georges Simenon
21.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal. 'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone, nothing but soft, flaccid matter, so much so that his movements were hard to make out. Very red lips stood out from his orb-like face, as did the thin moustache that he curled with a ...Show more
NIKOLAI GOGOL by NABAKOV VLADIMIR
35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. In this ideal ma ...Show more
Nairn's London by Ian Nairn
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation on a city and its buildings. Including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gar ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 by George Orwell
29.00 NZD
30.00 (3% off)
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don?t let it happen,? he concluded. 'It depends on you.?In an age of inescapable sur ...Show more
No Easy Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
26.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This collection of Nelson Mandela's speeches, and letter writing vividly illustrates the magnetic attractions of one of the foremost campaigners for freedom the world has known. This collection, with its revised notes and introduction, chronicles of the life and thoughts of a man whose name is synonymou ...Show more
On Photography by Susan Sontag
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' ha ...Show more
Pale Horse, Pale Rider The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A collection that gathers together Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider", where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her fiance on his way to war, and "Noon Wine", a haunting story of tragedy and sc ...Show more
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
26.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes introduces Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece "Parade's End" - now a major new BBC/HBO TV adaptation - in this reissued "Penguin Modern Classics" edition. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens, Rebecca Hall as his wife Sylvia and also featuring Rupert Everett ...Show more
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
24.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United St ...Show more
Pic by Jack Kerouac
24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It's 1948, and when ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson's guardian dies, his older brother Slim appears. Together, the two hitch and bum from North Carolina to New York City, observing the strange lifestyles of people they encounter.