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Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr by Evelyn Waugh
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Years later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh's compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to the man he revered as a poet, scholar, hero and mart ...Show more
England Your England by George Orwell
7.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England Your England' is one of the most compelling and insightful portraits of the nation ever written. Shot through with Orwell's deeply felt sense of patriotism and love for his homeland, the essay is at the same time unfailingly clear-eyed about the nation's failings- entrenched social inequality, a ...Show more
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S. Thompson
30.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances: firing wildly into the cactus from a car full of drugs'. "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone" showcases the evolution of the writer of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Hell's Angels", through his work at the magazine that he help ...Show more
Flappers and Philosophers by F.Scott Fitzgerald
30.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings together his most famous stories, including "The Diamond as ...Show more
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.' Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide ...Show more
Hiroshima by John Hersey
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and ...Show more
History Of The Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
48.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book presents, from the pers ...Show more
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
31.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
28.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump's authoritarian appeal."--Salon It Can't Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how ...Show more
John Steinbeck - A Life in Letters by John Steinbeck; Robert Wallsten (Editor)
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck was a prolific correspondent, and this collection of around 850 letters to friends, family, his editor and a diverse circle of well-known and influential public figures gives an insight into the raw creative processes of one of the most naturally-gifted and hard-working ...Show more
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
29.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger ste ...Show more
Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff
28.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The moving portrayal of life in the trenches in WW1, now a new film from the director of Suite Francaise, starring Sam Clafin, Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham and Asa ButterfieldSet in the First World War, Journey's End is the story of a group of British officers on the front line, in a dugout in the trenc ...Show more