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Volpone and Other Plays by JONSON BEN
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a rich Venetian who pretends to be dying so that his despised acquaintances will flock to his bedside with extravagant gifts in ...Show more
We Think the World of You by J R Ackerley
$5.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as "a fairy tale for adults." Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, i ...Show more
Zarathustras Discourses by Friedrich Nietzsche
$2.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin 60s Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good