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Against Slavery - An Abolitionist Reader by Mason Lowance (Editor); Mason I. Lowance
$12.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."--Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harr ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
$14.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Alice, a girl of seven years, is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on the riverbank with her elder sister. She then notices a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch run past. She follows it down a rabbit hole when suddenly she falls a long way to a curi ...Show more
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the court case that put Joe's partner in jail, ...Show more
Allen Ginsberg - Selected Poems 1947-1995 by Allen Ginsberg
$14.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, 'summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his iconic 'Beat Generation' image. Presented chronologica ...Show more
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between ...Show more
American Political Speeches by Terry Golway
$8.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: Penguin Civic Classics | Reading Level: near fine
In time for the upcoming election season, Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and--above all--essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of "The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution," draws together the great t ...Show more
American Supernatural Tales by JOSHI T
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the oc ...Show more
An Outline of Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: near fine
One of fifteen volumes in the Freud series, this title is part of a plan to generate a non-specialist Freud for a wide readership, which goes beyond the institutional/clinical market.
Animal Farm by George Orwell
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others' When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
$14.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets, prayer meetings and small-minded bigotry, Anna is dominated by her miserly and tyrannical father. When she inherits a fortune and finds love, she struggles to break free from t ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jaz ...Show more