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Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. ...Show more
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"This is the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle-class Englishwoman who politely declines to make the expected connection with the opposite sex and becomes a witch instead." -- John UpdikeForty-seven-year-old Lolly Willowes is a conventional maiden aunt, an unpaid companion and babysi ...Show more
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation ...Show more
Nostalgia by Mircea Cartarescu
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Gripping, impassioned, unexpected' Los Angeles TimesA dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a child messiah works his magic in the tenements, ...Show more
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native So ...Show more
Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England ...Show more
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
$12.00 NZD
$24.00 (50% off)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift- a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Gradually he learns how to exploit this gift in the art of creating the most sublime perfumes i ...Show more
Power by Foucault, Michel
$32.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This book covers the topics Foucault helped make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality - emphasising Foucault's practical concern with discrimination, coercion and exclusion in human society.
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
$13.00 NZD
$26.00 (50% off)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is what literature is meant to be' Anthony Burgess'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.'Funny, te ...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