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Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
$8.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England (Time), Evelyn Waugh's third novel helped to establish his reputation as a mater satirist. We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way. When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African sta ...Show more
Blood on the Dining-Room Floor by Gertrude Stein
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A series of local crimes inspired this attempt by the author to relieve her writer's block. A droll detective novel, its central mystery involves rediscovering the path to creativity. Although remembered mostly for her audacious bestseller, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein was a uniq ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
COVER DESIGNS THAT COME TO LIFE! ANIMATE THE COVER WITH THE FREE INSERTED SHEET Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone h ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$8.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful clothbound edition of Waugh's great novel of the lost golden age before the Second World War The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the M ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, "Burmese Days" describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orth ...Show more
Call for the Dead by John le Carré
$8.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carr 's latest novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available. "Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on you ...Show more
Chernobyl Prayer - Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'A beautifully written book, it's been years since I had to look away from a page because it was just too heart-breaking to go on' - Arundhati Roy, Elle'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, Observer The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Ale ...Show more
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
Civilization & Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
$10.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual.
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett; Frank Swinnerton (Introduction by)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The first novel of a family saga, Clayhanger (1910) is a coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England. It follows Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business and falls in love. The triumph of the book is the minute detailing of the effect of bourgeois respectabi ...Show more
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
$7.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Collages by Anais Nin
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
"Collages began with an image which had haunted me. A friend, Renate, had told me about her trip to Vienna where she was born, and of her childhood relationships to statues. She told me stories of her childhood, her relationship to her father, her first love. I begin the novel with: Vienna was the city ...Show more