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Rossetti: His Life and Works by Evelyn Waugh
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentiethEvelyn Waugh's first book, Rossetti, is an intimate account of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's tragic and mysterious life- the story behind some of the greatest poetry and painting of the ninet ...Show more
Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Tokyo, in the middle of the night, an uncalled-for ambulance arrives to spirit away a man's wife, though she is perfectly healthy. He sets out on an epic journey to find her, around the labyrinthine corners of a strange and enormous hospital. Days into his search, having encountered countless strange ...Show more
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76 by Michel Foucault
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Society Must Be Defended is taken from a series of lectures given by Foucault at the College de France in 1975-76. Using war to analyse power relations, he contended that politics is ultimately a continuation of battlefield violence, and that ingrained ideas of sovereignty and individual rights are atte ...Show more
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more
The Bolivian Diary by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba to lead the Bolivian Liberation Army. In the jungles of Bolivia they attempted to initiate a revolution like that in Cuba, in which Che had played such a central role. The opposing Bolivian Army was backed by the CIA, and Che and his men fought bravely in the jungle of Boli ...Show more
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed b ...Show more
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
$24.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. A Penguin Classic First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank, Anne Frank
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her f ...Show more
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last nove ...Show more
The Foucault Reader by Foucault, Michel
$32.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Foucault Reader is the ideal introduction to one the most stimulating and influential writers of the past century. It includes detailed excerpts from all his richly textured historical studies - including Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality - as well as many of his best interviews. ...Show more
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that lead to the great crash of 1929No account of the financial insanity of 1929 has been issued in a form at once so readable, so humorous, and so carefully authenticated as this classic book. J. ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and ...Show more