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Ulysses: Annotated Students' Edition by James Joyce
40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, "Ulysses" has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging allusions confirms its stan ...Show more
Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
34.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics
Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusseas novel is a powerful account of one of the greatest horrors mankind has inflicted on itself. For the group of ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of sur ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by P ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
19.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
A story of revolutionaries set in Swizerland and Russia. Conrad's intention was to render not so much the political but the psychological state of Russia in 1911.
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
24.95 NZD
29.00 (13% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's "Under the Volcano" includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in "Penguin Modern Classics". It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
14.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S. | Reading Level: very good
A story of English society during the Napoleonic wars. Through a free-wheeling melee of brilliant improvisations sail Becky Sharp, a resourceful, engaging and amoral character, and Amelia Sedley, her less lustrous but more ambiguous foil.
Vanity Fair (Clothbound Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Voss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1957 by Patrick White
0.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White In 1973, Australian writer Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature afor an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature.a Set in nineteenth-century Australia ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Considered by many to the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805, in the crowded and gossip-filled rooms of a St Petersburg party, and follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as ...Show more
Watership Down O/P by Richard Adams
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This novel tell the story of a band of rabbits who defy their chief and desert their warren when one of them prophesies the destruction of all who remain. This compulsive, fast-moving tale describes a mythical world full of heroic struggles, where animals are imbued with character, dignity and emotion. ...Show more