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A Rage in Harlem by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing t ...Show more
All Shot Up by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York Times A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with three heistmen dressed as cops has left an important ...Show more
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. ...Show more
Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton
$24.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A compelling history of Blitzkrieg: the 'lightning war' by which Hitler and his generals overwhelmed the Allied armies in Western Europe. 'Blitzkrieg' begins with a chilling portrait of Hitler's rise to power in pre-war Germany, setting the stage for the outbreak of the Second World War and his conquest ...Show more
Blood, Tears and Folly - An Objective Look at World War Two by Len Deighton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A magisterial history of the Second World War by best-selling novelist and former RAF pilot Len Deighton Drawing on the author's deep understanding of military life and the strengths and frailties of politicians and generals, this is a myth-puncturing analysis of the advent of the Second World War.Blood ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, "Burmese Days" describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orth ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
$9.99 NZD
$22.95 (56% off)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest' The New York Times A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when thieves with machine guns steal the proceeds - and send one man's brain matter flyin ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
$9.99 NZD
$29.95 (66% off)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more
England Your England by George Orwell
$6.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England Your England' is one of the most compelling and insightful portraits of the nation ever written. Shot through with Orwell's deeply felt sense of patriotism and love for his homeland, the essay is at the same time unfailingly clear-eyed about the nation's failings- entrenched social inequality, a ...Show more
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Deighton Len
$24.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A myth-busting, page-turning history of the Battle of Britain Summer, 1940- western Europe has been conquered, and Hitler turns his attention to the invasion of England. Fighter is Len Deighton's thrilling history of the ensuing Battle of Britain - the aerial combat between the RAF and the Luftwaffe tha ...Show more
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
$32.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Modern Classics edition of includes an introduction by Seamus Deane'riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from ...Show more