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In a Cafe - Selected Stories by Mary Lavin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Jean Rhys - Letters 1931-1966 by Jean Rhys; Francis Wyndham (ed.); Diana Melly (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth- Century Classics | Reading Level: very good
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics | Reading Level: very good
Martin Eden by Jack London
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer
Maurice by E M Forster
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Maurice is born into a privileged way of life, conforming to social conventions, yet he finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, a Cambridge friend, and Alec, the gamekeeper, he experiences a sexual awakening.
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This unique autobiography begins with McCarthy's recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering the need to fictionalize for the sake of a good story with the need for honesty, she creates interchapters that te ...Show more
Miss Lonelyhearts and a Cool Million by Nathanael West
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics | Reading Level: very good
Driven away from his parish by a censorious bishop, Monsignor Quixote sets off across Spain accompanied by a deposed renegade mayor as his own Sancho Panza, and his noble steed Rocinante - a faithful but antiquated SEAT 600. Like Cervantes's classic, this comic, picaresque fable offers enduring insights ...Show more
Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S. | Reading Level: very good
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of vari ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S. | Reading Level: good
In the 1950s, underground America was a world of jazz, sex, chill dawns and drugs, for Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat.
Pnin by Vladímir Nabokov
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics | Reading Level: very good
Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous he ...Show more
Seduction of the Minotaur by Anaïs Nin
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
"Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some in the urgency of contradicting a dream. Lillian's recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as i ...Show more