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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman, the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. But buried amid the extensive quoting, digressions, seeming explanations and meaningful digs at Mr Goo ...Show more
The Reprieve (The Roads to Freedom Vol 2) by Jean Paul Sartre
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
It is September 1938 and during a heatwave, Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris, people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe, each wrestling with their own love affairs, doubts and angsts - and none of t ...Show more
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Candida Wilton has been ignored by her husband and children for years, before being displaced by a younger woman. Moving to London, alone, divorced and without much money, it seems she will now enjoy a life only of small pleasures. When she receives an unexpected windfall, Candida maps out a journey she ...Show more
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Tells the story of an American couple's fated attempt to regenerate their strange and troubled marriage as they journey through North Africa. The book is a portrayal of a man's physical and mental disintegration and is written by the author of "Midnight Mass".
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
"Contemporary Reception," new to the Third Edition, considers the broad range of reactions to Faulkner's extraordinary novel on publication. Michael Gorra's headnote sets the stage for assessments by Evelyn Scott, Henry Nash Smith, Clifton P. Fadiman, Dudley Fitts, Richard Hughes, and Edward Crickmay. N ...Show more
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Commu ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
The Voyage Out by Virginia. Woolf
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
A young woman learns about life, and love found and lost, in this thought-provoking debut novel by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and prolific writers-with an introduction by Elisa Gabbert, author of The Unreality of Memory "Absolutely unafraid . . . Here at last is a book which attains u ...Show more
The Wall Jumper by Peter Schneider
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Berlin before the fall of the Wall is a city divided, yet its ordinary residents find ways to live and survive on both sides. There is Robert, teller of bar room anecdotes over beer and vodka, adjusting to a new life in the west; Pommerer, trying to outwit the system in the east; the unnamed narrator, w ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Through a series of connected monologues,The Waves tells the story of six very different friends - Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda - as they progress from childhood to middle age. Interspersed with evocative descriptions of the seaside at different times of day, the poignant personal his ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in "Penguin Modern Classics". More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, "The Waves" conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group ...Show more
The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases by Sigmund Freud
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The new "Penguin Freud", under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in "The Case Histories": "Little Hans", "The Rat Man", "The Wolf Man ...Show more