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A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
29.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a Welsh mountain village in 1939 and become closely involved with several unforgettable characters. Age 12+
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
This play tells the story of Willy Loman, an ageing salesman, who is a failure in both his business and private life. Fired by his firm, ignored by his children, his humiliation ends in suicide.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
23.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser.
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Usborne Modern Classics Ser.
Extraordinarily powerful, uplifting and memorable, the story of "Freak the Mighty" explores an unlikely friendship, and finds optimism and humour in a story of great poignancy. Bring your tissues. Maxwell Kane is feared and bullied because of his mental slowness and enormous size. But this is not the on ...Show more
Journey to Jo'Burg (Essential Modern Classic) by Beverley Naidoo
28.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, wh ...Show more
Number the Stars: Collins Modern Classics by Lois Lowry
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Modern Classics Ser.
In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal, newly reissued in the Essential Modern Classics range. "They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take them a ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide t ...Show more
The Machine Stops by E M Forster
12.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that.' E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In "The ...Show more
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