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Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young togeth ...Show more
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grac ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the 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 be ...Show more
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tayo, a young World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns home to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. Deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese, and further wounded by the rejection and alienation that he feels amongst his own people, he faces a fierce struggle to find inner peace. O ...Show more
Confessions by Saint Augustine
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Wh ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$48.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Crime and punishment is probably Dostoevsky's most read and known novel and one of the most famous literary works of all time. Published in installments in 1866 in the journal «Russkij vestnik» («The Russian Messenger»), it is the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, which the author describes in a l ...Show more
Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A fascinating discovery,Dandelions is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in 1972. Beautifully spare and deeply strange,Dandelions explores love and madness and consists almost entirely conversations between a woman identified only as Ineko's mother, and Kuno, a young man w ...Show more
David Copperfield (Clothbound Classics) by Charles Dickens; Jeremy Tambling (Introduction by, Notes by); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
$56.51 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Dickens narrates in this novel episodes of his own life from his childhood to adulthood, personalized in the figure of David or Trot, a boy who goes through different vicissitudes in life, from his studies in a boarding school to the death of his mother and the ruthless job in a factory in 19th century ...Show more
Day of the Oprichnik by Vladmir Sorokin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Moscow 2028- Andrei Danilovich Komiaga, oprichnik, member of the czar's inner circle of trusted courtiers, rouses himself from a drunken stupor and prepares for another day of debauchery, violence, terror and beauty. In this New Russia, futuristic technology combine with the draconian world of Ivan the ...Show more
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
$32.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed? In his revolutionary work on control and power relations in our pub ...Show more
Don Quixote (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Miguel Cervantes
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dr ...Show more