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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Popular Penguins by William Shakespeare
$14.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' as well as a range of other equally moving works, this compilation brings together the compl ...Show more
Smith's Dream by C.K. Stead
$14.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
When Smith is left by his wife and goes to hide away in the bush in the Coromandel he never imagines he will become the most wanted man in the country. In a right-wing coup one man, Volkner, has seized power in New Zealand and is using army and special police to maintain his government. Smith's Dream fo ...Show more
Sons For The Return Home: (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
$14.50 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Popular Penguins) by Arthur Conan Doyle
$15.99 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
The Art of War: Popular Penguins by Sun Tzu
$14.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also rel ...Show more
The Beach by Alex Garland
$16.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Khao San Road, Bangkok -- first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his w ...Show more
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
$14.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamb ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
$16.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck mus ...Show more
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine
$15.99 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable tale of mystery and obsession by Barbara Vine (pseudonym of Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement) This is the utterly absorbing story of best-selling novelist Gerald Candless, whose sudden death from a heart attack leaves beh ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto: Popular Penguins by Karl Marx
$14.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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 Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
$14.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
The Fight (Popular Penguin) by Norman Mailer
$14.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Za re, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible "professor of boxing." The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentato ...Show more