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The Machine Stops by E M Forster
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that.' E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In "The ...Show more
The Man in the High Castle (PB) by Philip K. Dick
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An official tie-in edition of Philip K Dick's dazzling speculative novel to accompany the new TV series, executive produced by Ridley Scott. Philip K Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nightmare ...Show more
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Manuscripts don't burn'In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural el ...Show more
The Night Manager by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
A classic spy novel from master of suspense John le Carre--reissued in time with the BBC and AMC miniseries, directed by Susanne Bier and starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. On a bleak January night at the outbreak of the Gulf War, Mr. Richard Onslow Roper, a very special visitor, arrives with hi ...Show more
The Night Manager by John le Carré
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
In The Night Manager, John le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers. "Le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing in English". (Guardian). "A marvellously observed relentless tale". (Observer). At the start o ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories by Joost Zwagerman
$48.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS 'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent bo ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: The Great Female Detectives, Crooks, and Villainesses by Michael Sims
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
An anthology devoted strictly to the pioneer female characters in crime fiction, the direct ancestors of everyone from Miss. Marple to V I Warshawski, as well as the great female criminal masterminds. It includes adventurous tales of women who refused to sit politely in the parlor and chat about fashion ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Henry James's great masterpiece, now in a stunning Penguin clothbound edition designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith.When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her ...Show more
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Strauss' Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918. Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for h ...Show more
The Siege of Tsingtao by Fenby Jonathan
$12.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Orange Classics
The Singing Whakapapa by C K Stead
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Award-Winning Classics | Reading Level: very good
"The Singing Whakpapais a tale for our time - a compelling historical detective story in which the truth is stranger than any fiction, and in which the present becomes a backseat driver to the past.What is the truth of history, what are the facts - and how are we to know them? This powerful novel is the ...Show more
The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The one saving grace is his love for his master's daughter, Wanda. They begin a secret affair, trying to avoid the cruelty of the other villagers, until one day Jacob's fortunes ...Show more