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Man Alone by John Mulgan
13.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: Very Good
'That's Auckland, mate - the Queen of the North.' 'The what?' 'The Queen of the North. That's what they call it - in Auckland. This is God's own, this country.' Man Alone is a literary landmark that has haunted our writing for decades. John Mulgan's vision of New Zealand society as detached and unsentim ...Show more
Man Alone (Popular Penguin) by John Mulgan
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Johnson, an English WWI veteran, comes to New Zealand to find a new life. In Auckland he is caught up in the Great Depression riots, and heads south to the central North Island, where he work as a farm hand. An affair with his boss’s wife and the accidental killing of his boss cause him to flee across r ...Show more
Man Alone: VUP Classic by John Mulgan
30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Man Alone is one of the foundation stones of New Zealand literature. Almost all copies of the first edition, published in England in 1939, were destroyed in the Blitz. When it was republished in New Zealand in 1949, after the author’s suicide in Cairo in 1945, the publisher Paul’s Book Arcade made a num ...Show more
Report on Experience by John Mulgan
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good
John Mulgan is famous as the author of the novel Man Alone (1939), one of the classic landmarks of a mature and independent New Zealand literature. His second book, Report on Experience, published posthumously in 1947, is one of the most clear-sighted and moving memoirs to emerge from the Second World W ...Show more
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