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Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Connie was aware, however, of a growing restlessness...It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness. It made her heart beat violently for no reason'. Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marr ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lo ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: near fine
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed si ...Show more
Out Of Africa: Penguin Essentials by Karen Blixen
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought- Here I am, where I ought to be.'From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to ...Show more
Perfume: Penguin Essentials by Patrick Suskind
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Essentials
Patrick Suskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. Hi ...Show more
Regeneration by Pat Barker
24.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'I just don't think our war aims - whatever they may be - and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.' The poets and soldiers Sie ...Show more
Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy
25.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: good
New Penguin Essentials edition of the heartbreaking classic of the roaring twenties, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.' American psychoanalyst Dick Diver and ...Show more
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve cases that puzzle clients, baffle the police ...Show more
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
24.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT ' It is many years since God sent the Tribulation to punish the forebears for their sins, and in the rural settlement of Waknuk David Strorm's father decries any and all blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that David and his cousin Rosalind, have their own secre ...Show more
The Circle by Dave Eggers
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Fast, thrilling, compulsively addictive - The Circle is Dave Eggers's timely novel about our obsession with the internet, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportun ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
22.99 NZD
26.00 (11% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Essentials
'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'. Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east o ...Show more