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In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 3 by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, Le Côté de Guermantes opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salut ...Show more
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ralph Ellison's impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the story of an invisible man "simply because people refuse to see me". Yet his powerfully depicted adventures go far beyond the story of one man.
Journals 1889-1949 by André Gide; J. O'Brien (Translator)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, a sahib, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he ...Show more
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children' As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chroni ...Show more
Love and Exile - The Early Years - A Memoir by Isaac Bashevis Singer
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Malina invites the reader on a linguistic journey, into a world that stretches the very limits of language with Wittgensteinian zeal and Joycean inventiveness, where Ingeborg Bachmann ventriloquizes--and in the process demolishes--Proust, Musil, and Balzac, and yet filters everything through her own utt ...Show more
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; Anthony Thwaite (Introduction by)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead ...Show more
Morrissey - Autobiography by Morrissey
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Category: Music | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (p ...Show more
Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Evan S. Connell's "Mrs Bridge" is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century, influencing books such as Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections". This edition has an introduction by Joshua Ferris, author of "Then We Came to the End" ...Show more
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs, William S Burroughs
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast ...Show more