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Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
$10.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow, without comfort or solace, where, eternally patient, the peasants lived in an age-old stillness and in the presence of death - for ...Show more
The Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
$12.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together the best of his writing. From the supernatural "Taibele and Her Demon" to the poignant "The Unseen", and fro ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
$5.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; Susan Massotty (Translator); Elie Wiesel; Otto Frank (Editor); Mirjam Pressler (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the de ...Show more
The Forsyte Saga Volume 3 by John Galsworthy
$14.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John Galworthy's sweeping trilogy of family fortunes began with the crumbling values of the Victorian Age, moved through the First World War, and now concludes in the 1930's, where more dramatic change is taking place. In this final volume of The Forsyte SagaGalsworthy writes about the lives and loves o ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Great Gatsby, Third novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925. Set in Jazz Age New York, it tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.
The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix Tie-In) by Shirley Jackson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Horror | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror ...Show more
The Reivers - A Reminiscence by William Faulkner
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This comic tale of three Mississippi travellers in Memphis, set in the first years of this century, explores the contradictions of a society at the crossroads of the modern age, traditional but vigourous, combining old-world politeness with brutality.
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Lowry's masterpiece. . . has a claim to being regarded as one of the ten most consequential works of fiction produced in [the twentieth] century." -- Los Angeles Times Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal o ...Show more
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