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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
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
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
24.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
We the Living by Ayn Rand
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state. Of this book, Ayn Rand said, "it is as near to an autobiogr ...Show more
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
26.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Oliver Harris (Introduction by)
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters- a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he jo ...Show more