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The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti
31.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Mountains of My Life" collects Walter Bonatti's classic writings detailing his exploits on numerous expeditions to different mountains of the world, as well as the real story behind the controversy over the events on K2 that changed his life. Bonatti is one of the greatest mountaineers of all time, ...Show more
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
23.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in "Penguin Classics". Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when ...Show more
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
21.00 NZD
Category: History | 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
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, explor ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the boo ...Show more
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
29.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political quietism. A masterpi ...Show more
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
27.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, setting them against the emergence of modern England. This work examines the relationships and the conflicts they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the spiritual.
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan
29.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling. 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of The Ramayana. Everyone of whatever age, out ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
This is a dramatic, moving depiction of social defiance and social deference, of passion and human frailty. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tens ...Show more
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
30.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust--all the elements of Kawabata's fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a N-ō drama." --"Saturday R ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Anne Bronte is the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son. By challenging the prevailing morals of the time the novel caused a critic to pronounce it ''utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls' ...Show more
The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international conseq ...Show more