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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'. 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? Socia ...Show more
A Room with a View by E M Forster, E.M. Forster, E. M. Forster, E.M. Forster And Malcolm Bradbury
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you ...'. Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters ...Show more
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamourous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the famil ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel--a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism."All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slog ...Show more
Bonjour Tristesse: Penguin Essentials by Françoise Sagan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary ... This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love'. The French Riviera: home to t ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits'. Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided romantic gi ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds'. Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is c ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves'. From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman' ...Show more
I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'Some people are coming here today, now you will have a companion.' But young Edmund Hooper doesn't want anyone else in Warings, the large and rambling Victorian house he shares with his widowed father. Nevertheless Charles Kingshaw and his mother are soon installed and Hooper sets about subtly persecut ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder And Its Consequences by Truman Capote
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
'Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, 'a natural killer'- absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows' On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children ...Show more
Life Class by Pat Barker
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart 'Triumphant, inspiring, shattering' The Time ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | 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