Pygmalion: Popular Penguins by Bernard Shaw
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
A barbed attack on the British class system, Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Fiction Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr J ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Popular Penguins by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Fiction Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body - this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Fiction Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
The Great Gatsby: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne, his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whispe ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Fiction Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Madame Bovary is the debut Novel of French writer: Gustave Flaubert. published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
The Jungle Book: Popular Penguins by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Fiction Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as Bagheera, the graceful black panther, and Shere Khan, the tiger with th ...Show more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Popular Penguins by Ken Kesey
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Category: Fiction Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-lovi ...Show more
The Republic by Plato
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics
Plato's Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions ar ...Show more
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics
"The Catcher in the Rye" is J . D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'ph ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function- to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Fiction Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!" Jane Austen's novel tells the story of Marianne Dashwood, who wears her heart on her sleeve, and whe ...Show more