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And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Cave's debut novel takes on the Southern Gothic in this bizarre baroque tale. Born mute to a drunken mother and a demented father, tortured Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family mule than in his fellow men. But he alone will grasp the cruel fate of Cosey Mo, the beautiful young prostitute i ...Show more
Another Country (Popular Penguin) by James Baldwin
13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSet in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting ...Show more
Anzac's Story (War Popular Penguin) by Roy A.I.F. Kyle
12.99 NZD
Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins
Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are very few by the ordinary soldier. Roy Kyle started writing this memoir at the age of 89 and almost completed it before he died. A typi ...Show more
April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that's how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love. Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering ...Show more
Australia in Arms (War Popular Penguin) by Phillip Schuler
12.99 NZD
Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins
Phillip Schuler, alongside C.E.W. Bean, was one of Australia's key First World War correspondents. A soldier as well as a journalist, he died on 23 June 1917 of wounds received at Armentieres. His legacy was Australia in Arms, an extraordinary and evocative account of the Australian Imperial Force and t ...Show more
Beowulf: Popular Penguins by Michael Alexander
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fidelity of implication. May it go on ... to another half-million copies." - Tom Shippey, Bulletin of the I ...Show more
Book of Longing: Popular Penguins by Leonard Cohen
15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
Boy: Popular Penguins by Roald Dahl
13.99 NZD
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Korean edition of Boy by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake, translated by Jeong Hwoi Seong. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and na vet continue to charm. This volume ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly ...Show more
Came a Hot Friday by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
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Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Arson, murder, sex and hair-raising midnight adventures at a town called Tainuia Junction. It's Friday when the silver-tongued Wes Pennington and his sidekick Cyril Kidman come to town with a trick to play on the local bookmaker. But there's already other skullduggery afoot ...not to speak of the Te Wha ...Show more
Cannery Row Popular Penguins by John Steinbeck
12.99 NZD
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the ...Show more