Jane Eyre: Popular Penguins by Charlotte Brontë
$15.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Charlotte Bronte (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.The literary heritage of the Bronte sisters entered the treasury of national English culture g ...Show more
1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell
$24.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
George Orwell's novels about the dangers of tyranny, the corruption of the state and the enslavement of the individual are essential reading. In an era of doublespeak, they remain chillingly prophetic.Introductions by Charlotte Wood, 1984and Don Watson, Animal Farm.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret Historyis a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college disc ...Show more
Persuasion: Popular Penguins by Jane Austen
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
Eight years ago, Anne rejected the man she loved because her friends and family persuaded her that he wasn't rich or important enough. In all that time, she's never found anyone to match Captain Wentworth. With her snobbish father and spoiled sister always ready to embarrass her in polite society, Anne ...Show more
Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
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 Communist Manifesto: Popular Penguins by Karl Marx
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about class and capitalism today.
The Great Gatsby: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
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
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of iniquity . . . The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures reveal the brilliant consulting detective at ...Show more
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer: Popular Penguins by Patrick Suskind
$15.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguin | Reading Level: very good
Patrick Süskind's Perfume follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, abandoned at birth in the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, but blessed with an outstanding sense of smell. This gift enables Jean-Baptiste to master the art of perfume making, but one scent evades him- that of a virgin, whom he mu ...Show more