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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
$32.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Penguin Classics
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" portrays Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Ex ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$17.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
$17.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse; subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (German: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft)) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Za ...Show more
David Copperfield (Clothbound Classics) by Charles Dickens; Jeremy Tambling (Introduction by, Notes by); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
$56.51 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. It also offers a personal background to the subtexts of his later novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's experiences include bei ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Thomas Hardy's last novel, "Jude the Obscure" is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with an introduction by Dennis Taylor in "Penguin Classics". Jude Fawley's hopes of an education at Christminster University are dashed when he is trapped into marrying the wild, earthy ...Show more
Lady Susan (Little Black Classic) by Jane Austen
$6.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a Man of his age! - just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have the Gout - too old to be agreable, and too young to die.' The scheming and unscrupulous Lady Susan is unlike any Austen heroine you've met in this fascinating early novella. It is on ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
$30.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Like the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters are a treasure of practical wisdom on how to live and enjoy life. The focus is on living a simple, stress-free life thorough the use of rationalism. Seneca's timeless essays provide practical steps for people to deal with the human suffering that ...Show more
Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Ch'eng-en
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng'en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk's quest for Buddhist scriptures, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu M ...Show more
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, "Nausea" is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is translated from the French by Robert Baldick with an introd ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more