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Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
"'How are you?' said Mathieu. 'I thought you were dead.'" Following a Parisian philosophy teacher through the caf s and bars of Montparnasse over two days in the sweltering summer of 1938, Sartre's searing novel explores what it truly means to be free.
Dead Souls by Nikolay Gogol
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Hey, you with the beard!' A coiffured con man travels across Russia's rural backwaters, buying the souls of dead serfs from their owners to make his fortune, in Gogol's exuberant, bravura masterwork: the greatest comedy in Russian literature.
Don't Look Now (Pocket Penguin) by Daphne Du Maurier
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Now, ill-lit, almost in darkness, the windows of the houses shuttered, the water dank, the scene appeared altogether different, neglected, poor, and the long narrow boots moored to the slippery steps of cellar entrances looked like coffins.' A slow-burning masterpiece of horror recounting a grieving co ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
"Me have that golden gown!" A blameless girl and her monstrous relatives clash over love and money in Balzac's matchless portrayal of greed in a French provincial town.
Fathers and Sons (Penguin pocket classics) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
Aristocracy, liberalism, progress, principles...useless words! A Russian doesn't need them' Returning home after years away at university, Arkady is proud to introduce his clever friend Bazarov to his father and uncle. But their guest soon stirs up unrest on the quiet country estate - his outspoken nih ...Show more
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is much like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, s ...Show more
Laughter in the Dark by Vladímir Nabokov
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic nov ...Show more
Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Dead, she was his ghost' A gripping, intensely atmospheric story of love, espionage and betrayal in wartime Shanghai, Lust, Caution is accompanied here by four more shimmering tales of Chinese life.
Metamorphosis (Penguin pocket classics) by Franz Kafka
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. Samsa must learn to ...Show more
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-En
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'"After all," he said, "you're only a monkey spirit. How can you delude yourself into supposing that you can seize the Jade Emperor's throne?"' Featuring the adventures of the irrepressible, cloud-riding trickster Monkey and his band of unruly disciples, this centuries-old Chinese fantasy blends beauty ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway (Penguin pocket classics) by Virginia Woolf
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips.' On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as t ...Show more
My Childhood (Penguin pocket classics) by Maxim Gorky
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'I could hear the frost crackling outside. Greenish moonbeams shone through windows covered with patterns of ice...' One of the most moving accounts of being a boy ever written, My Childhood is a both wonderful and harrowing memoir - and one of the great works of Russian literature. This is a new series ...Show more